The Private Music: Renaissance Music of Utter Beauty and Calm at Taunton Minster (St Mary Magdalene Church), Taunton on Sunday 18th February 2024

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

The Private Music

Renaissance Music of Utter Beauty and Calm

Add to my Calendar 18-02-2024 15:00 18-02-2024 17:00 36 The Private Music Be sure not to miss this celebration of the choir’s foundation in 1984. Unquestionably one of the most beautiful and most poetic of English cathedrals, Wells Cathedral provides the magnificent setting for Somerset Chamber Choir’s joyous Anniversary Concert, celebrating 40 years of glorious music-making. With a distinguished line-up of musicians, this will be a concert sparkling with resplendent jewels of the Renaissance and Baroque. The Choir, under the dynamic direction of Andrea Brown, will be joined by Florilegium, one of Britain’s most outstanding period-instrument ensembles, and a stunning array of vocal soloists. Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part masterpiece Spem in Alium, in a dramatic arrangement featuring cornetts & sackbuts, will form the centrepiece of this very special concert which will also include exuberant music by H Praetorius, JS Bach’s dazzling Magnificat in D, the soaring lines of Handel’s sublime Eternal Source of Light Divine, and one of Purcell’s most popular works, Come Ye Sons of Art.  “Florilegium have become an indispensable feature on the early music landscape. Long may they prosper” (The Times)  We’d really love you to share this celebration with us! Taunton Minster (St Mary Magdalene Church), Taunton DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Taunton Minster (St Mary Magdalene Church)
Church Square
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1SA
England

Sunday 18th February 2024
3:00 PM

Programme

Thomas Tallis – If ye love me
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices
Philippe de Monte – Super flumina Babylonis
John Dowland – Flow my tears
Richard Dering – Factum est silentium
Thomas Tallis – Ineiunio
Peter Philips – Ascendit Deus
Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah 1
John Dowland – In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Performers

Andrea Brown – Conductor
Dame Emma Kirkby – soloist
Sam Brown – baroque flute

Somerset Chamber Choir

Programme Note

Be sure not to miss this celebration of the choir’s foundation in 1984.

Unquestionably one of the most beautiful and most poetic of English cathedrals, Wells Cathedral provides the magnificent setting for Somerset Chamber Choir’s joyous Anniversary Concert, celebrating 40 years of glorious music-making. With a distinguished line-up of musicians, this will be a concert sparkling with resplendent jewels of the Renaissance and Baroque.

The Choir, under the dynamic direction of Andrea Brown, will be joined by Florilegium, one of Britain’s most outstanding period-instrument ensembles, and a stunning array of vocal soloists.

Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part masterpiece Spem in Alium, in a dramatic arrangement featuring cornetts & sackbuts, will form the centrepiece of this very special concert which will also include exuberant music by H Praetorius, JS Bach’s dazzling Magnificat in D, the soaring lines of Handel’s sublime Eternal Source of Light Divine, and one of Purcell’s most popular works, Come Ye Sons of Art.

“Florilegium have become an indispensable feature on the early music landscape. Long may they prosper” (The Times)

We’d really love you to share this celebration with us!

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