Stile Antico concert

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30302

    Stile Antico concert

    Last night's concert from Merton College, Oxford, is now available on Listen Again.

    Presented by Catherine Bott

    In this concert renowned vocal ensemble Stile Antico perform Tudor and Jacobean sacred music written for domestic performance rather than for liturgical use in church. Composed at a time of religious turmoil following Henry VIII's break from Rome, it's music that reflects the troubled times, intended to inspire piety and affirm faith, whether that faith was Protestant or Catholic. Taken from collections brought together for devotion at court or in private homes and written by some of the great names in Renaissance music it's a chronological journey through this largely neglected repertoire.

    Browne: Jesu, mercy
    Thomas Causton: It is a Thing both Good and Meet
    attrib. Thomas Morley: Nolo mortem peccatoris
    Thomas Tallis: Purge Me, O Lord
    John Sheppard: The Lord's prayer
    William Byrd: Domine praestolamur
    William Byrd: Why do I use my Paper Ink and Pen
    William Byrd: Exsurge Domine

    8.10 Interval Music

    Robert Ramsey: How are the mighty fallen
    Thomas Tomkins: When David Heard
    John Milton: O Had I Wings Like to a Dove
    Martin Peerson: O Let me at thy Footstool fall
    John Dowland: I Shame at my Unworthiness
    Giovanni Croce: From the Profound Centre of my Heart
    Thomas Campion: Never Weather Beat'n Sail
    John Amner: A Stranger Here
    William Byrd: Retire my Soul
    Thomas Tomkins: O Praise the Lord

    Stile Antico.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 12973

    #2
    Unending bliss.
    Cool choir, distinct diction and separation of parts, no histrionics, no special pleading, lovely gentle acoustic, and nicely presented by Catherine Bott. Manner admirably suited to matter.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30302

      #3
      Hadn't noticed a slightly 'off-topic' deviation about it on the Chapel Royal thread.

      Posted here mainly for the repertoire.
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #4
        I saw this on R3 web site! have tocatch up on iplayer. I have two cds by them. Simply gorgeous sounds!
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • Old Grumpy
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 3617

          #5
          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
          I saw this on R3 web site! have to catch up on iplayer. I have two cds by them. Simply gorgeous sounds!
          Steady on - @stileantico may be along in a minute (http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...Antico-on-tour)

          Totally agree though - I have 2 CDs by them too.

          OG

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