Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 6:30 pm
This Joyful Birth
York Early Music Festival
National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom
Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 6:30 pm
National Centre for Early Music, York, United Kingdom
Stile Antico recounts the journey to the manger in a glorious sequence of music from mediaeval and Renaissance Europe. Our programme follows each scene of the Christmas story, beginning in Advent and moving through to the Nativity, the visits of the Shepherds and the Wise Men, and finally to the Feast of Candlemas. Nearly every major composer of the period is represented in a feast of festive music: highlights include Victoria’s intimate O magnum mysterium, thrilling motets by Byrd, Lassus and Sheppard, mediaeval carols, and irresistible dances from Spain and Germany.
Plainchant: Conditor alma siderum
John Taverner: Audivi vocem de caelo
Heinrich Schütz: O lieber Herre Gott
William Byrd: Laetentur caeli
Sebastián de Vivanco: Ave Maria
Anon: There is no Rose of such virtue
Johannes Eccard: Übers Gebirg Maria geht
Tomás Luis da Victoria: O magnum mysterium
Matteo Flecha: El Jubilate
Michael Praetorius: Ein Kind geboren
Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Pastores quidnam vidistis
Claudio Monteverdi: Rutilante in nocte
Richard Dering: Quem vidistis pastores
Luca Marenzio: Tribus miraculis
Francisco Guerrero: A un niño llorando
John Sheppard: Reges Tharsis
Giovanni da Palestrina: Senex puerum portabat
Johannes Eccard: Maria wallt zum Heiligtum
William Byrd: Nunc dimittis from Great Service a5
Orlande de Lassus: Resonet in laudibus