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Alamire: For Every Syllable a Note

Live from Cadogan Hall. Alamire performs the music of the Tudor Dynasty from the pre-Reformation flowerings of the Eton Choirbook to the great Elizabethan motets of William Byrd.

For Every Syllable a Note: Alamire chart the music of the Tudor Dynasty from the pre-Reformation flowerings of the Eton Choirbook through Archbishop Parker's Psalter and the 'Father of English Music,'Thomas Tallis,' to the great Elizabethan motets and votive offerings of William Byrd.
Petroc Trelawny presents live from Cadogan Hall in conversation with Alamire's founder and director David Skinner

Part I
Lambe: Nesciens mater
Taverner: O Christe Jesu, pastor bone
Sheppard: Filiae Jerusalem
Taverner: Quemadmodum
Sheppard: Verbum caro
Taverner and Tye: O spendor gloriae

appox 8.00pm Interval Music
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Third Tune from Archbishop Parker's Psalter)
Sinfonia of London, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

approx 8.25pm
Part II
Tallis: It ye love me
Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Byrd: Peccantem me quotidie
Tallis: Honor virtus et potestas
Tallis: In ieiunio et fletu
Tallis: Dum transisset sabbatum
Byrd: Emendemus in melius
Byrd: Tribue Domine.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Apr 2013 19:30

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