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Monteverdi Choir - Renaissance Polyphony

Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Monday 18 June 2012

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).

Music Played

17 items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

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

    • 00:00
      Image for Thomas Tallis

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

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for Thomas Tallis

      Thomas Tallis Suscipe, quaeso Domine

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Laudibus in sanctis

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Vide Domine quoniam tribulor (Look, O Lord)

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Turn our captivity, O Lord

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Civitas sancti

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for Robert White

      Robert White Lamentations for 6 voices

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

  • Interval

    • 00:00
      Image for Robert Schumann

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

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique

      Archiv Produktion, 457-591-2, 1-1

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

    • 00:00
      Image for Peter Philips

      Peter Philips Ecce vicit Leo

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Siderum rector

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Vigilate

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Justorum animae

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for Thomas Tallis

      Thomas Tallis O nata lux de lumine

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for William Byrd

      William Byrd Nunc dimittis servum tuum

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for Thomas Tomkins

      Thomas Tomkins Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.
    • 00:00
      Image for Robert White

      Robert White Christe qui lux es et dies

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

  • encore and recession

    • 00:00
      Image for [anonymous]

      [anonymous] Non nobis Domine (canon, attrib. Byrd)

      Conductor: John Eliot GARDINER Performer: Monteverdi Choir.

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