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Monteverdi Choir - Renaissance Polyphony

Live from the Spitalfields Festival in London, the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner performs English Renaissance polyphony, by Tallis, White, Byrd and Tomkins.

Live from Christ Church, Spitalfields as part of the 2012 Spitalfields Festival

Presented by Martin Handley

The Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner perform music by some of the great masters of English Renaissance polyphony - Tallis, White, Byrd and Tomkins - presenting an overview of the development of sacred music in England during the course of the sixteenth century.

Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum
Tallis: O nata lux
Tallis: Suscipe quaeso Domine
White: Lamentations of Jeremiah
Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis
Byrd: Ad Dominum cum tribablarer
Byrd: Turn our captivity, O Lord
Byrd: Vide, Domine, quoniam tribulor
Byrd: Vigilate
Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Byrd: Infelix ego
Tomkins: Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom
Byrd: Non nobis Domine

Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 18 Jun 2012 19:30

Music Played

  • Spitalfields Festival - Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner part 1

    • Thomas Tallis

      Te lucis ante terminum (Procul recedant somnia) [1st setting]

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • Thomas Tallis

      Suscipe, quaeso Domine

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Laudibus in sanctis

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Vide Domine quoniam tribulor (Look, O Lord)

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Turn our captivity, O Lord

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Civitas sancti

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • Robert White

      Lamentations for 6 voices

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

  • Interval

    • Robert Schumann

      Symphony in G minor [3 mvts + sketch for 4th]

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique

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  • Spitalfields Festival - Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner part 2

    • Peter Philips

      Ecce vicit Leo

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Siderum rector

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Vigilate

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Justorum animae

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • Thomas Tallis

      O nata lux de lumine

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • William Byrd

      Nunc dimittis servum tuum

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • Thomas Tomkins

      Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

    • Robert White

      Christe qui lux es et dies

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

  • encore and recession

    • Anon.

      Non nobis Domine (canon, attrib. Byrd)

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 Jun 2012 19:30

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