The Private Music
Music of utter calm and tranquillity
Sunday 18th February 2024 at 3.00pm
TAUNTON MINSTER (St Mary Magdalene)
TAUNTON MINSTER (St Mary Magdalene)
We were thrilled that our Patron, Dame Emma Kirkby, and “sensitive poet of the lute” Sam Brown, joined us for this concert, to perform a small selection of works from the golden age of English Lute Song.
BYRD Mass for four voices
DE MONTE Super flumina Babylonis
DERING Factum est silentium
DOWLAND Lute song: Flow, my tears
DOWLAND Lute song: In darkness let me dwell
DOWLAND Lute song: In this trembling shadow
PHILIPS Ascendit Deus
TALLIS If ye love me
TALLIS Ineiunio et fletu
TALLIS Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Emma Kirkby soprano
Sam Brown lute
Miles Quick organ
Andrea Brown conductor
The Private Music... by composers writing in circumstances of exile - some forced to leave Protestant England for their Catholicism, some obliged through fear to write music for secret ceremony, others removed from meaningful positions and effectively exiled in their own homes.
This was the choir’s first concert in the Minster since 1989 and we were very excited to return to such a beautiful building right in the centre of Taunton. For her first concert directing the choir, Andrea chose Renaissance music of singular beauty that was sure to transport the audience to a place of utter calm and tranquillity.
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