Stile Antico

Stile Antico

The world's oldest story? Possibly. The most beautiful? Absolutely! For Stile Antico's Christmas chronicle, we are only too happy to make it silent. Britain's top singers walk towards the light in the footsteps of carpenter Joseph and mother-to-be Mary. They populate their colourful tableaux with songs from Medieval and Renaissance Europe: expressive soundscapes by masters such as William Byrd, Orlandus Lassus, John Sheppard and Michael Praetorius. 

Programme

• A voice from Heaven

• Plainchant

  Conditor alma siderum

• John Taverner

  Audivi vocem de caelo

  c1490-1545
• Heinrich Schütz

  O lieber Herre Gott, SWV381

  1585-1672
• William Byrd

  Laetentur caeli

  c1540-1623

• The Obedience of Mary

• Sebastián de Vivanco

  Ave Maria

  c1551-1622
• Anoniem

  There is no Rose of such virtue (from: The Trinity Carol Roll) 

  15th century
• Johannes Eccard

  Übers Gebirg Maria geht  

  1553-1611 

• The Joy of the Angels

• Tomás Luis de Victoria

  O magnum mysterium

  1548-1611 
• Matheo Flecha

  El Jubilate  

  1481-1553 
• Michael Praetorius

  Ein Kind geboren in Bethlehem

  1571-1621 

• The Eagerness of the Shepherds

• Jacobus Clemens non Papa

  Pastores quidnam vidistis  

  c1510-1555/6 
• Claudio Monteverdi

  Rutilante in nocte

  1567-1643 
• Richard Dering

  Quem vidistis pastores

  c1580-1630 

• The Perseverance of the Wise Men 
  

• Luca Marenzio

  Tribus miraculis 

  1553/54-1599 
• Francisco Guerrero

  A un niño llorando

  1528-1599 
• John Sheppard

  Reges Tharsis  

  c1515-1558 
• Orlandus Lassus

  Resonet in laudibus 
  
  Programme subject to change

  1530/32-1594

Musicians

• Helen Ashby, Kate Ashby, Rebecca Hickey soprano
• Emma Ashby, Cara Curran, Rosie Parker alto
• Andrew Griffiths, Jonathan Hanley, Benedict Hymas, Tom Perkins tenor
• James Arthur, Nathan Harrison, Gareth Thomas bass