Vox Luminis XL
How grand can music become before it bursts at the seams? That question was a major preoccupation for composers in the sixteenth century. In Spem in alium, Thomas Tallis wrote music for no fewer than forty individual voices. The result is an impressive piece in which the sound slowly builds, shifts and then dissolves.
Even smaller works by composers such as Sheppard, Morley and Striggio possess an enormous intensity. With few resources, they create music that sounds surprisingly powerful.
The ensemble Vox Luminis, founded at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, is today among the very best in the world in this repertoire. The singers combine technical precision with warm expression and bring this Renaissance polyphony to life in a rich, clear soundscape.
Also live on www.emtv.online.
With an introduction by Annelies Andries (19:15 hrs, in Dutch) in the Fentener van Vlissingen Foyer (limited capacity).
Programme
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Thomas Morley
Funeral Sentences
1557/58-1602 -
Thomas Tallis
Spem in Alium
c1505-1585 -
Alessandro Striggio
Ecce Beatam Lucem
c1536/37-1592 -
John Sheppard
Media vita in morte sumus
Programme subject to changec1515-1558
Musicians
- Vox Luminis XL
- Lionel Meunier musical direction, bass
