Chamber Music Prom 2 (9.08.21) - The Marian Consort Performs Joaquin des Prez

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

13:00 & 18:00 Monday 9 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Josquin des Prez: Praeter rerum seriem
Sethus Calvisius: Praeter rerum seriem
Josquin des Prez: Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
Adriaan Willard: Benedicta es, caelorum regina
Josquin des Prez: Inviolata, integra et casta es
Vicente Lusitano: Inviolata, integra et casta es

The Marian Consort ensemble
Rory McCleery director

British vocal ensemble the Marian Consort makes its Proms debut with a concert celebrating Renaissance master Josquin des Prez 500 years after his death. In a season of musical borrowings, three of Josquin’s greatest motets, all drawing on pre-existing material, are paired with three musical homages – including the kaleidoscopic Inviolata, integra et casta es by the first published black composer, Vicente Lusitano – that each rework Josquin’s own music for a new age.

[ardcarp]

Marian Consort Prom

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000yld9

Quite a feast of Early Music today. The Prom (from Cadogan Hall) centred around Josquin, and ended with a reworking of Josquin's Inviolata by Lusitano, a composer and theorist who has become more 'known about' of late.

[DracoM]

[bluestateprommer]

The Early Music sub-forum had this short thread on this Cadogan Hall Chamber Music Prom by the Marian Consort (perhaps the posters can migrate those posts over, in lieu of a merger). Finally caught up with this concert, and a very fine a capella concert it was, well worth a listen. (It helped, of course, to find the 3 texts separately off the web). I admit that I'm not at all an aficionado of Renaissance-era vocal music, and that when I do listen to concerts like this, I prefer to take such music in small doses. So the format of 3 pairs of works here worked out quite well for my own listening tastes, i.e. listen to one pair, then take a break, then move on to the next pair.

Rory McCleery is an engaging speaker and did well in his on-stage banter with Petroc, who again clearly enjoys presenting these concerts and very probably realizes what a nice gig that the Cadogan Hall Chamber Proms are. Perhaps the only modest blot was not to identify the singers by name, but in fairness, their own website doesn't name names either, besides RM.

Also, the concert had an encore, duly archived in the Forum Calendar, in one of the few occasions where I've one-upped the BBC, since neither the BBC Proms R3 listing nor the BBC Sounds page mentions it at this time. If you want details, you'll actually have to go to the Calendar entry to look it up :) .