Chapelle du Roi
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Chapelle du Roi candlelight concert – St John’s Smith Square
December 12, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Marriage of England and Spain by Candlelight: Chapelle du Roi returns to St John’s Smith Square for its tenth appearance in the Christmas Festival with a programme of glorious seasonal works from the 16th century including an English masterpiece not heard for 500 years
30th Christmas Festival – The Marriage of England and Spain by Candelight
Alistair Dixon- director
Anon. Gaudete, Gaudete
Tallis Beati immaculati
Mundy Adolescentulus sum ego
Anon. Angelus ad Virginem
Anon. There is no Rose
Hedley Terrenum Sitiens
de Monte Super flumina Babylonis
Byrd Quomodo Cantabimus
Tallis Discomfit Them O Lord
Victoria O Magnum Mysterium
Guerrero Alma Redemptoris
Guerrero O Domine Jesu
Victoria Alma Redemptoris a8
A programme of music celebrating English and Spanish music from the sixteenth century.
Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain were married in 1554. The union was short lived but the music written as a result of the joining of the two countries was rich and varied. Some of the repertoire was written with the joint choirs of the Chapel Royal and the Capella Flamenca in mind and the result is music architected on a grand scale with sumptuous textures in up to seven and eight vocal parts.
The programme includes a performance of Terrenum Sitiens by “Edwardes” – probably Edward Hedley – from Magdalen College. This work is a dramatic setting of a procative and politically charged text on the massacre of Holy Innocents and its sole source is the Peterhouse Part Books. This will be the first public performance for 500 years.
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http://www.sjss.org.uk/events/chapelle-du-roi-0