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Director: Owen Rees
	Concerts
The Cambridge Taverner Choir celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011 with a series of concerts embracing many of the choir's favourite works, focusing especially on the music of Monteverdi, Victoria and Taverner. One of the greatest works of English sixteenth-century music, Taverner's Western Wind Mass is also one of the most striking: a kaleidoscopic set of variations on a memorable secular tune. Taverner was the greatest English composer working in the decades before the Reformation in England. In this concert, the Western Wind Mass is performed alongside his majestic psalm-setting Quemadmodum desiderat and his famous Eastertide responsory Dum transisset sabbatum, together with the moving sacred song Jesu, mercy, how may this be by his contemporary John Browne. In 2010, the choir performed 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	2012 Sunday 18th March, 7:30pm King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells From Venice to Dresden: Masterworks of the colossal Baroque. Music by Gabrieli and Schutz. With the Renaissance instrumental ensemble I Musici Della Contessa Booking information: www.mkctw.blogspot.com 2011 season Sunday 13th March, 7.30pm St Gabriel’s, Warwick Square, Pimlico, London www.st-gabriels.com Monteverdi, Mantua and Rome Monteverdi's Missa In illo tempore and motets by Gombert, Josquin and others Saturday 28th May, 7.30pm The Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral Victoria: Requiem For the 400th anniversary of the death of Victoria Tickets: see Cambridge Summer Music Sunday 31st July, 7.30pm St Cyriac's church, Swaffham Prior The Play of Passion: the drama of Renaissance choral music. Music from Monteverdi's Orfeo and works by Victoria, Gombert, Josquin and Gibbons Tickets: see Cambridge Summer Music Sunday 25th September, 7.30pm St Cross, Winchester Western Wind: Music from Tudor England Including John Taverner's Western Wind Mass Tickets: £15 (£12 concessions) available from Winchester Cathedral Box Office 01962 857275 *Some previous concerts* Saturday 3rd July, 2010 Keble College, Oxford Monteverdi, Mantua and Rome Monteverdi's Missa in illo tempore Saturday 11th September, 2010 St Cross church, Winchester Reformation and Renaissance Sacred music by Tallis and Byrd and chants from the Hyde Breviary Programme details 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 Saturday 24th November 2007 Little St Mary's church, Cambridge All People that on Earth do dwell - 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 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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