 In
2010, the choir will be making a further recording and is delighted to be
performing in Winchester's Hyde900 Festival celebrating the 900th
anniversary of the foundation of Hyde Abbey and the final official burial of
King Alfred the Great in 1110.
The year 2009 saw the choir
return to its core repertoire of Renaissance polyphony, in two concerts
which draw on the music closest to the hearts of its members and Director.
The highlight of 2008
was a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers with The Musical
and Amicable Society (www.amicables.co.uk) as instrumentalists.
In 2007, the choir performed in the
Winchester Festival, and achieved a long-standing ambition to sing Britten's
St Nicolas, with an orchestra specially-recruited children's choir.
The
choir celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006 by performing the Bach Motets in
two concerts, both in the Cambridge Summer Music Festival, with guest accompanists John
Butt and Stephen Farr.
Booking information
Please see individual concert details
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Sunday 28th March, 7.30pm
 Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
Monteverdi, Mantua and Rome
Monteverdi's Missa in illo tempore
and motets by Gombert and others
Tickets from Corn Exchange Box Office (01223 357851) available from February
2010
Saturday 3rd July, 7.30pm
 Keble College, Oxford
Monteverdi, Mantua and Rome
Monteverdi's Missa in illo tempore
Tickets from Tickets Oxford (01865 305305) from May 2010.
Saturday 11th September, 7.30pm
 St Cross church, Winchester
Reformation and Renaissance
Choral Masterpieces of the 16th Century
Sacred music by Tallis and Byrd and chants from the Hyde Breviary
Programme details
The dissolution of the monasteries, including the great Hyde Abbey,
under Henry VIII swept away a musical and liturgical world, but echoes of
that world survived in the works of some composers of the later Tudor
period. This concert evokes this turbulent period, opening with plainchant
from the medieval Breviary of Hyde Abbey, and continuing with motets by the
two greatest English composers of the time, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
Tallis's career spanned the destruction of the monasteries, which he
experienced at first hand. Some of his most deeply expressive music and that
of his famous pupil Byrd reflects these events and the plight of the
Catholic community in England.
Some previous concerts
Sunday 13th September, 2009
St Cross church, Winchester
Queen of Heaven: Music from the Golden Age of Spain
Sunday 12th July, 2009
Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Star of the Sea: Music from the Golden Age of Portugal
Sunday 14th December, 2008
Little St Mary's church, Cambridge
Britten’s Ceremony of Carols
Sunday 13th April, 2008
Trinity College chapel, Cambridge
Monteverdi: Vespers
Sunday 20th July, 2008
Little St Mary's church, Cambridge
Monteverdi: Music from Orfeo and the Madrigals
Saturday 28th September, 2008
St Cross church, Winchester
Monteverdi's Venice: two centuries of music from St Mark's, including music by Monteverdi,
Willaert, Gabrielli, Lotti and Caldara.
Saturday 24th November 2007
Little St Mary's church, Cambridge
All People that on Earth do dwell
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St Nicolas, Benjamin Britten
- Negro Spirituals, Michael Tippett
Sunday 1st
October 2006, 7.30pm
The church of St Cross, Winchester
Victoria Requiem
Friday, 4th August
2006, 8.00pm
Church of Our Lady and English Martyrs
The Bach Motets, part two
(Preceded by concert talk by John Butt at 7.15)
Saturday, 27th May
2006, 7.30pm
Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
The Bach Motets, part one
Saturday, 25th March 2006, 7.30pm
King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells
The Coronation of James I
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