Friday, October 15, 2010 at 8pm
St. Paul Church, Harvard Square, Cambridge
In Paradisum: Swansongs and Memorials
by the Renaissance Masters
British vocal ensemble Stile Antico returns to Boston after their thrilling North American début at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival. Lauded for their glorious singing - a melding of emotion, rhythmic precision, and sublime intonation - these dozen self-directed voices will offer a moving program featuring musical meditations on themes of life and loss by Byrd, Josquin, Sheppard, Schütz, Lassus, and others.
Free pre-concert talk at 7pm
Read the Program Notes for this concert.
PROGRAM
WILLIAM BYRD: Retire my soul
PLAINCHANT: Requiem æternam
GUILLAUME DUFAY: Ave Regina cælorum
PLAINCHANT: Lacrimosa
JOHN SHEPPARD: Media vita
NICOLAS GOMBERT: Magnificat primi toni
PLAINCHANT: Pie Jesu
JOSQUIN DES PRES: O bone et dulcissime Jesu
PLAINCHANT: Lux æterna
ALONSO LOBO: Versa est in luctum
PLAINCHANT: Libera me, Domine
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ: Herr, wenn ich nur Dich habe
PLAINCHANT: In paradisum
ORLANDE DE LASUS: Vide homo (Lagrime di San Pietro)
