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Byrd in a Strange Land
Orlando Chamber Choir
Richard Wilberforce, director
Michael Solomon Williams, tenor
James Akers, lute
Léon Charles, organ
Thursday 22 March 2012, 19:30
St Andrew Holborn [ map ]
5 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AB
Orlando Chamber Choir's first concert with its new musical director, Richard Wilberforce, focuses on William Byrd's secret Catholic devotional music, written in Protestant times. The famous Mass for 4 Voices is a centre-piece of the repertoire which also includes Philippe de Monte’s glorious eight-part Super flumina Babylonis, lute songs by Dowland and solo works for lute and organ.
Programme details
| William Byrd (1539 - 1623) | Laudibus in sanctis |
| Mass for 4 voices: Kyrie, Gloria | |
| Peter Philips (1560 - 1628) | Pavane (lute) |
| Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585) | In jejunio et fletu |
| William Byrd (1539 - 1623) | Mass for 4 voices: Sanctus, Benedictus |
| John Dowland (1563 - 1626) | In darkness let me dwell (tenor and lute) |
| William Byrd (1539 - 1623) | Mass for 4 voices: Agnus Dei |
| Vigilate | Sellinger's Round (organ) | |
| Factus est repente | Ave verum corpus | |
| Salve sola Dei genitrix | |
| Why do I use ...? (tenor and organ) | |
| Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603) | Super flumina Babylonis |
| William Byrd (1539 - 1623) | Quomodo cantabimus |
| John Dowland (1563 - 1626) | Come again (tenor and lute) |
| William Byrd (1539 - 1623) | Miserere mei | Civitas sancti tui |
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