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BREMF Consort of Voices
Rituals of Love and War! Deborah Roberts director Battling with the enemy or with Cupid – it’s all the same: weapons, armour, agonies, death, defeat and victory! The traditional melody L’homme armé and the astonishingly graphic madrigal La Guerre by Claude Janequin formed the basis of many sacred and secular compositions for over 200 years. The first half of this programme includes an entire mass made of of movements from Josquin’s haunting Missa L’homme armé Sexti Toni, the 12-part Missa L’homme armé of Carissimi and the ceremonial Missa pro victoria by Tomas Luis de Victoria - based on La Guerre. In the second half, a variety of madrigals, many of them also inspired by La Guerre, do battle with Cupid’s darts. But here Love is always victorious and his ‘death’ has a certain sweetness ….. BREMF Consort of Voices
“Particular praise is due to the BREMF Consort of Voices who excelled… “ Early Music Today Although BREMF Consort of Voices is less than a year old, it is already making its mark. Formed from semi professional, student and the most experienced amateur singers in the Sussex region, it is an ensemble of solo and consort singers dedicated to dramatic and exciting performances of music from the Renaissance and Baroque. The group made its debut at the 2010 Brighton Fringe, and then took part on two concerts at Brighton Early Music Festival, one of which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Future plans include a return to the Brighton Fringe in a programme of Monteverdi’s Selva Morale. “. . .here intensity came from the grinding dissonances and the way they 'sigh' downwards to their resolution, an effect that the choir under its director Deborah Roberts really savoured.” The Daily Telegraph (concert at BREMF 2010 with Emma Kirkby and The International Baroque players, broadcast on BBC
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