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Tudor Music Festival
Four evenings of Tudor music in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace,
Surrey
7 - 10 May 2009
As part of the Henry VIII 500th anniversary celebrations this year, join us for four nights in the Great Hall to enjoy Tudor music. This is an excellent opportunity to step back in time and listen to music in the very place where Henry VIII enjoyed musical entertainment.
Doors open at 18.30 and a cash bar will be available for pre-concert and interval refreshments in the Tudor Kitchens.
Concerts include
Friday 8 May (Performance starts: 19.30)
The Brabant Ensemble
Directed by Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble are a vocal group he
founded especially to perform the lesser-known repertoire of sacred
music of the mid-sixteenth century. The programme will include
compositions by Henry VIII, John Taverner, John Sheppard and Thomas
Tallis.
Programme:
The pre-Reformation Church (part I)
Mater Christi sanctissima - John Taverner (c1490-1545)
Sancte Deus - William Whytbroke (c1501-69)
Henry’s Court
Quam pulchra es - King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
The Time of Youth - King Henry VIII
Alas, what shall I do for love - King Henry VIII
Hélas, madame, celle que j’aime tant - King Henry VIII
A Netherlander at Court
Hélas, madame, faites-lui quelque bien - Philip van Wilder (c1500-53)
Aspice Domine - van Wilder
The King’s Reformation
Christ rising again - Thomas Tallis (c1505-85)
Blessed are all they that fear the Lord - Christopher Tye (c1505-73)
Yield unto God the mighty Lord - Thomas Caustun (c1522-69)
O God, be merciful unto us - John Sheppard (c1510-58)
The pre-Reformation Church (part II)
Sanctus (The Western Wind Mass) - Tye
Dum transisset Sabbatum - Tallis
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