• Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Saturday 5th October 2024 at 6.00pm

    Évora Cathedral, Évora, Portugal

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by Vicente Lusitano and his Portuguese contemporaries.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Introitus' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' and 'Gradual' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine de sede
    Duarte Lobo, 'Offertorium' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Versa est in luctum
    Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Filipe de Magalhães, Commissa mea pavesco
    Duarte Lobo, 'Agnus Dei' and 'Lux aeterna' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Estêvão de Brito, Vidi Dominum
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata a8

  • Charpentier and Rameau

    Tuesday 8th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Actéon
    Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pygmalion

    Further details at the AAM website.

    Anna Dennis and Rachel Redmond, sopranos
    Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Walker, tenor

  • Charpentier and Rameau

    Wednesday 9th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, London

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Actéon
    Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pygmalion

    Further details at the AAM website; tickets at the Barbican website.

    Anna Dennis and Rachel Redmond, sopranos
    Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Walker, tenor

  • Seeing through Sound

    Friday 11th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Wiltshire Music Centre
    Bradford on Avon

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Tim Shephard, speaker

    A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.
    The concert will be preceded at 6.30pm by a talk by Prof Tim Shephard.

    Tickets and further details at the WMC website.

    Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
    Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
    Ave Maria
     (lauda; plainchant)
    Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
    Regina Coeli
     antiphon (plainchant)
    John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
    Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
    Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
    Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
    Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
    Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
    Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei

  • Last of the Leaves

    Sunday 13th October 2024 at 4.00pm

    St Stephen's, Dulwich

    The Concordium String Ensemble
    Lucy Goddard, conductor
    Anthony Friend, clarinet

    Stephen Dodgson, Last of the Leaves 

       (Baritone soloist)

    The programme will also feature Leoš Janáček's Suite for Strings and Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto.
    This performance is generously supported by the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Trust and the Finzi Friends.

  • An Auld Alliance

    Friday 18th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Kings Place, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century partbooks, alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

    Tickets and further details at the Kings Place website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Pater Noster/Ave Maria
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • Seeing through Sound

    Sunday 27th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Colyer-Fergusson Hall
    Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Tim Shephard, speaker

    A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.

    Further details and tickets at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre website.

    Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
    Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
    Ave Maria
     (lauda; plainchant)
    Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
    Regina Coeli
     antiphon (plainchant)
    John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
    Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
    Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
    Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
    Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
    Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
    Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei