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Cinquecento
Image credit: © Theresa Pewal

Archived Event

Songs for Troubled Times - Music from Reformation England
Cinquecento
Date
Mon 07 Nov 2022, 1.00pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Availability

Important Information

Download the PDF programme here. Reproduction and distribution is strictly prohibited.

This concert was live-streamed as part of the Autumn 2022 Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here: Wigmore Hall Concert Video Library

Artists

  • Cinquecento
    • Achim Schulztenor
    • Ulfried Staberbass
    • Tim Scott Whiteleybaritone
    • Dominic Blandtenor
    • Terry Weycountertenor

Programme

  • Thomas Tallis
    c.1505-1585
      • In jejunio et fletu
      • Te lucis ante terminum (i)
      • Lamentations I
      • If ye love me

Encore

Overview

Normally the admired ensemble specializing in 16th-century repertoire devotes itself to Austrian works, but here it turns its attention to England and the rupture in liturgical music caused by the Reformation, as composers had to change style according to whether their monarch was Catholic or Protestant.

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