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Sackbuts and Cornetts | Cantores (chamber choir)

When
Saturday June 16, 2012 at 19:30
Where
St Peter and St Paul's Church, Northleach
Tickets
£10 advance or on the door, £8.50+booking fee online
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  1. Plaudite omnis Terra, from Symphoniae sacrae - Giovanni Gabrieli
  2. Hodie completi sunt - Giovanni Gabrieli
  3. German Magnificat - Heinrich Schütz
  4. Dixit dominus, from Vespro della Beata Vergine, 'Vespers' (1610) - Claudio Monteverdi
  5. Nisi Dominus - Claudio Monteverdi
  6. Missa O Quam Gloriosum - Tomás Luis de Victoria
  7. Loquebantur variis linguis - Thomas Tallis
  8. Dum transisset Sabbatum I - John Taverner

For our 2012 summer concerts, Cantores are teaming up with the early music ensemble The Six to perform a rich medley of choral and instrumental music from the Renaissance and Early Baroque period, when – very different from today – composers didn’t mind too much whether their music was sung or played.

To illustrate this eminently flexible and at times cheerfully improvisational approach to the making of music, Cantores together with the sackbuts and cornets of The Six will be exploring the compositions of such titans of early music as Gabrieli, Byrd, Tallis, Schütz and the incomparable Monteverdi.

Our singing will, as so often through our now 21 years of music-making in the Cotswolds, be beautifully enhanced by the acoustics of two of our favourite local churches - Northleach’s St Peter and St Paul on June 16th, and Tetbury’s St Mary the Virgin on June 30th, 2012,

As Musical Director John Holloway writes, nowadays we are all used to highly idiomatic writing for different instruments and for singers.

Liszt has shown us what the piano can do and Paganini the violin. Their musical idiom is not normally interchangeable.

Composers of the Renaissance and early Baroque, while aware of the possibilities of different instruments and particular players, were often content to write music that could be either sung or played.

This was especially important in the domestic environment where one used the skills, vocal or instrumental, of whoever was present. A particular part or line had to be accessible to a range of voices or instruments. Title pages would often say ‘Apt for Voices or Viols’.

This is not to say that composers were unaware of sonority or virtuosity, rather that performers had greater freedom to exploit their particular resources.

Both Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi had access to companies of players and singers, differently constituted at different times and so performances of their music would have sounded different on different occasions.

For our summer 2012 concerts in Tetbury and Northleach, grand motets in eight or twelve parts will combine the instrumental and vocal textures, and the separate ensembles will show off their skills in choral music by Tallis, Taverner and Victoria and instrumental canzonas and dances of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.


Venue
St Peter and St Paul's Church
Mill End
Northleach
Gloucestershire
GL54 3HL
England


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