Polyphonic Postcards

We are delighted to bring our new programme ‘Polyphonic Postcards’ to St Barnabas Church, Oxford, on Thursday 19th March at 8pm.

The flourishing cities of Renaissance Europe played host to an explosion of cultural activity. Papal Rome dripped luxury, Paris was renowned as a centre of learning, and port cities such as Lisbon and Seville were deluged with treasure from newly discovered corners of the globe. These cities were fertile ground for musicians: the Sistine Chapel could afford to employ the finest composers of the day, the resources of seventeenth-century Venice spurred the groundbreaking music of Claudio Monteverdi, and the chaos of Parisian street markets provided inspiration for Jannequin’s Les cris de Paris. This programme provides a fascinating snapshot of music, politics, and culture at the apogee of the European Renaissance.

Tickets are available to buy here; the full programme is listed below.

Setting out

Thomas Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis

Paris

Pierre Moulu: Mater floreat
Claude de Sermisy: Tant que vivrai
Clément Janquein: Les cris de Paris

Seville

Francisco Guerrero: Ave virgo sanctissima
Guerrero: Niño dios d’amor herido
Alonso Lobo: O quam suavis es

Munich

Ludwig Daser: Fratres, sobrii estote
Ludwig Senfl: Das Geläut zu Speyer 
Orlandus Lassus: Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes

Rome

Felice Anerio: Christus factus est 
Philippe Verdelot: Trist’Amarilli mia
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Tu es Petrus

Lisbon

Manuel Cardoso: Lamentations a6 (Vau & Zain)
Pedro de Escobar: Pasame por Dios
João Rebelo: Panis angelicus

Venice

Claudio Monteverdi: Adoramus te Christe
Claudio Merulo: Vergine, madre figlia del tuo figlio 
Andrea Gabrieli: Ecco Vinegia bella