New Lamps For Old

by Candlelight

6 December 2014 at 7.30pm
St John's Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

Christmas has inspired composers for more than five hundred years. The legacy of English and continental composers from the Renaissance is rich and varied. In recent years a ‘Second English Renaissance’ has seen contemporary composers taking inspiration from plainchant, secular carols and polyphonic masterworks of the sixteenth century.

A new tradition of Renaissance-inspired music flourishes in the hands of contemporary English composers. In this programme Chapelle du Roi explores the links between works by Thomas Tallis, John Sheppard, Tomás Luis de Victoria and contemporary English composers including Cecilia McDowall, Samuel Bordoli, Robert Hugill, David Braid, Norman Harper and Jonathan Darbourne.

The result is a balance of sumptuous textures and harmonies and contrasting approaches to the great Christmas texts.

Four of the works are commissioned by Chapelle du Roi for this programme and are World Premieres.

O Sapientia		Sarum Chant
Magnificat		Thomas Tallis
O Sapientia		David Braid	World Premiere
Nunc Dimittis		Thomas Tallis
		Samuel Bordoli
Cantate Mass		John Sheppard
Advent Prose		Gregorian Chant
		Robert Hugill	World Premiere
Verbum Caro		John Sheppard
		Norman Harper	World Premiere
No Man's Land 1914		Jonathan Darbourne	World Premiere
Alma Redemptoris		Tomas Luis de Victoria
		Cecilia McDowall

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