New Lamps for Old: Christmas Music by Candlelight

St John's Smith Square, London
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This event ended on Saturday 6th of December 2014
Admission
£25, £20, £15, £10
Location

St John's Smith Square, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
St. James's Park 0.36 miles

Christmas has inspired composers for more than five hundred years and the legacy of Renaissance music is rich and varied. In recent years a 'Second English Renaissance' has seen contemporary composers taking inspiration from plainchant and polyphonic masterworks. A new tradition of Renaissance-inspired music flourishes in the hands of English composers.

Join Chapelle du Roi to explore the links between works by Thomas Tallis, John Sheppard & Tomás Luis de Victoria
and six contemporary English composers.

Four of the works were commissioned by Chapelle du Roi for this programme and are World Premieres.

Programme includes:
- O Sapientia - David Braid & Sarum Chant
- Nunc Dimittis - Samuel Bordoli & Thomas Tallis
- Advent Prose - Robert Hugill & Gregorian Chant
- Verbum Caro - Norman Harper & John Sheppard
- No Man’s Land 1914 - Jonathan Darbourne
- Alma Redemptoris - Cecilia McDowall & Victoria


"They make a beautiful sound as anyone can hear"
Evening Standard

"Chapelle created a wonderfully muscular sound... the lines of the 'Sanctus' soared to the heavens"
The Independent

" ... Chapelle du Roi is an ensemble finely honed and responsive, with vitalising clarity and diction and texture"
The Daily Telegraph

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