Stile Antico
Where did polyphony originally belong? Not in concert series and at festivals, but in monasteries and churches, where the Liturgy of the Hours gave rhythm to daily life. In five concerts, Stile Antico and Collegium Gregorianum will perform five hours, appropriate for different times of day: Advent dawns during Matins, Christmas shines during Lauds, Easter inspires High Mass, the Assumption of Mary colours Vespers, and Compline echoes the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. A four-part Mass by William Byrd and Gregorian melodies form the backbone of this living tribute to 1,500 years of tradition.
In collaboration with Collegium Gregorianum.
This concert is also available as part of a passe-partout.
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Programme
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Monastic Hours V: Compline for the Immaculate Conception
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Plainchant
Introduction
Lesson & Pater noster
Confession
Introduction
Antiphon
Psalm part I, Psalm 4
Psalm part II, Psalm 90
Psalm part III, Psalm 133
Antiphon (repeat)
Hymn
Versicle & Response
Nunc dimittis antiphon -
William Byrd
Nunc Dimittis
c1540-1623 -
Plainchant
Nunc dimittis antiphon (repeat)
Kyrie & Pater noster
Prayer
Dismissal -
John Sheppard
Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria
c1515-1558 -
Plainchant
Marian Prayer
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Helen Ashby, Kate Ashby, Rebecca Hickey soprano
- Emma Ashby, Cara Curran, Rosie Parker alto
- Andrew Griffiths, Jonathan Hanley, Benedict Hymas tenor
- James Arthur, Nathan Harrison, Gareth Thomas bass
- Collegium Gregorianum
- Greg Skidmore, William Townend, James Robinson, Tom Castle voice
