Friday 18 October, 19.30 at St Bartholomew's Church
Connections of Power
EVENT OVER. Music for the 1468 wedding of Margaret of York to Charles the Bold of Burgundy
Date & Time: Friday 18 October, 19.30
Ticket price: £20; under 30s £10; under 12s free
Venue: St Bartholomew's Church
The wedding of Princess Margaret of York, sister of King Edward IV, to Charles, Duke of Burgundy was certainly one of the most lavish and musically rich of the century. This programme presents some of the music that would have been part of the celebrations, including works by Dufay and Busnois as well as the English composers Frye and Dunstable.
An immersive evening of chant and polyphony – some improvised, and the BREMF debut of Dutch ensemble Cappella Pratensis, singing from original notation around a choirbook stand.
Cappella Pratensis
Andrew Hallock superius
Tim Braithwaite superius, artistic director
Lior Leibovici altus
Peter de Laurentiis tenor
Marc Busnel bassus
BREMF Consort of Voices
James Elias director
Supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom
Programme
Josquin des Prez
c.1450-1521 /
Guillaume Dufay
1397-1474 Ave maris stella
John Dunstable
c.1390-1453 Gaude virgo
Plainchant Introitus: Rorate Coeli
Dufay Missa Ecce ancilla Domini: Kyrie
Dufay Missa Ecce ancilla Domini: Gloria
Plainchant Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine
Plainchant Alleluia: In die resurrexionis meae
Walter Frye
d.1474? Missa Flos regalis: Credo
Plainchant Offertorium: Ave Maria
- interval -
Plainchant Prefatio
Dufay Missa Ecce ancilla Domini: Sanctus
Plainchant Pater Noster
Dufay / Frye Missa Ecce ancilla Domini / Missa Flos regalis: Agnus Dei
Plainchant Communio: Ecce virgo concipiet
Antoine Busnoys
c.1430-1492 Regina coeli laetare
Johannes Ockeghem
c.1410-1497 Ave Maria
Jean Mouton
1459-1522 Nesciens mater
