Agony & Ecstasy
Thursday 8 November 2018, 19:30 - 21:30
St Bartholomew the Great [ map ]
West Smithfield
London EC1A 9DS
Orlando Chamber Choir
Peter Foggitt, director
From the ecstasy of love to the Agony in the Garden, this Orlando Chamber Choir concert charts a course through the extremes of emotion.
The first half of the programme celebrates the Italian madrigal’s journey to England, acquiring new texts and decorations along the way, with works by Jacques Arcadelt, Melchior Franck, Orlando Gibbons, Giaches de Wert, John Wilbye and others.
The Apostle Peter's abandonment of Jesus is explored in seven sections of Orlando di Lasso’s extraordinary psychodramatic madrigal cycle Lagrime di San Pietro.
Peter Foggitt's set of miniature madrigals based on Spenser's Epithalamion completes the evening.
Part of the concert’s agony is that it is Peter’s last as Orlando Chamber Choir’s director. He has been appointed Director of Music at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Please join us for an ecstatic send-off!
