Christmas to Candlemas: The French Court
Saturday, 10 December 2016, 8:00pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Road, Kew
Subscription Concert 3
This year’s Christmas to Candlemas comes from the French Court during the High Renaissance and all the composers in this program worked directly with at least one of a succession of four kings: Charles VII, Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII. The program opens with one of the 15th century’s most beautiful works, Johannes Ockeghem’s Alma Redemptoris mater. The principal work of the program is a sequence of eight motets for the Christmas season by Loyset Compère, a composer highly celebrated in his time but as yet little known in ours.
Johannes Ockeghem Alma Redemptoris mater
Jean Mouton Nesciens mater;
Noe, noe, noe, psallite noe;
Quaeramus cum pastoribus;
Illuminare, illuminare, Jerusalem
Josquin Desprez, In principio erat verbum;
O admirabile commercium
Johannes Prioris In principio erat verbum
Loyset Compère Hodie nobis de virgine
Soprano
Deborah Summerbell; Katherine Lieschke; Victoria Brown;
Katharina Hochheiser; Claerwen Jones; Kathryn Pisani
Alto
Belinda Wong; Juliana Kay;
Niki Ebacioni; Rebecca Collins
Tenor
Peter Campbell; Tim van Nooten;
Stuart Tennant
Bass
Nicholas Tolhurst; Adrian Phillips
Mike Ormerod, Michael Strasser