When you think of Advent, do you think of wreaths and candles and prayer? Advent is a time of urgency! Our programme title 'Veni Domine!' conveys the cry: 'Come, Lord!' While penitence and introspection are part of the season as well, so are images of the voice crying in the wilderness, wise and foolish virgins at the wedding feast, and lifting up the gates to let a triumphant king enter in. Our programme draws on music from a range of Renaissance composers (Byrd, Palestrina, Josquin, Lassus, Tallis, and more) to evoke the mystery, urgency, and power of this sometimes-overlooked season.

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Concert programme

Gregorian chant: O sapientia
Thomas Tallis - Audivi vocem
Robert Ramsay - O sapientia

Gregorian chant: O Adonai
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Canite tuba in Sion
Orlando Gibbons - Lift up your heads
Hieronymus Praetorius - Canite tuba in Sion

Gregorian chant: O Radix
William Byrd - Ne irascaris

Gregorian chant: O Clavis
Jacob Handl - Rorate caeli
William Byrd - Vigilate

-- INTERVAL --

Giaches de Wert - Vox clamantis
Orlande de Lassus - Ut queant laxis
Josquin des Prez - Inter natos mulierum

Gregorian chant: O Oriens
Josquin des Prez - O virgo virginum

Gregorian chant: O Rex
Johann Sebastian Bach - O Jesulein suss / O little one sweet
Basque Carol - The Angel Gebriel (arr. Edgar Pettman)
Michael Praetorius & Melchior Vulpius - Es ist ein Ros

Gregorian chant: O Emmanuel
Tomas Luis de Victoria - Alma redemptoris mater a 8

Programme note

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