Proms Chamber Music 2 - 22.07.13: 'Praise to Thee, O Lord!'

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall

Anonymous
Chwała tobie, Gospodzinie (3 mins)
Anonymous
Cracovia civitas (5 mins)
Wanning
Dixit angelus ad Petrum (5 mins)
Wanning
Et valde mane (5 mins)
Mikołaj Zieleński
Mihi autem nimis (4 mins)
Demantius
Neue lieblich Intraden und frölichen Polnischen Täntzen (10 mins)
Intrada; Chorea polonica; Galliarde
Marenzio
Lamentabatur Jacob (4 mins)
Marenzio
Solo e pensos i più dersti campi (5 mins)
Klabon
Tryumfuj, wierny poddany (4 mins)

Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel conductor

The Huelgas Ensemble and Paul van Nevel perform Renaissance sacred music - including rarely-heard works by Polish composers.

One of the most enterprising and accomplished of the specialist vocal ensembles on today's early music scene, the Huelgas Ensemble and founder/conductor Paul van Nevel make their BBC Proms debut with a characteristically imaginative programme centering on the little-known repertoire of choral music from Renaissance Poland - most of it rarely heard these days, and some of it only recently re-discovered in the archives of the University of Warsaw. Alongside the Polish music are works by 16th-century composers from other corners of Europe - including the great Italian Luca Marenzio, the Dutch-born Johannes Wanning, and Christoph Demantius from Bohemia.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A pedantic point, but at what point does an ensemble become so large that it is no longer chamber music?

[jean]

However small they are, vocal ensembles aren't usually referred to as chamber music, are they?

I'm looking forward to this one. When I sang in a (small!) choir in Poland we did bits of Palestrina but never any Polish Renaissance music - a terrible missed opportunity.

[doversoul1]

Today at 1.00 pm

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A pedantic point, but at what point does an ensemble become so large that it is no longer chamber music?

Possibly at the same point that a "chamber" becomes a "hall"?

[mercia]

available to watch for 4 weeks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01d46zw

[doversoul1]

Thank you, mercia. I thought I’d heard Petroc mention ‘viewing’ but couldn’t find the link yesterday.

[bluestateprommer]

Did no one else catch this concert? Granted, not having any of the texts available does detract in that sense, just listening on iPlayer, but that aside, this was a very well put together program, and very well done by Paul van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble. It was made clear at the start that the program was conceived as a unity, with a request to the audience not to applaud until the very end, so thus the "happy clappers" were forestalled, and the audience respected this. Having PvN speak with Petroc in the intro was a wise move, as I think that PvN's wry, dry manner made Petroc tone down his style to match PvN's.

It just occurred to me to try to see if I can watch the video from Cadogan Hall. Much to my pleasant shock, on this side of the pond, I can, as in the past, Proms videos from the RAH were for UK audiences only (understandably so). Still no texts, unfortunately, i.e. nothing projected on the video screen, and I also noticed that Cadogan Hall wasn't sold out for this concert, more's the pity.

[doversoul1]

It was my messing things about: It’s here.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?8934-Renaissance-sacred-music-from-Poland