Name: A Renaissance Sequence
Start: 2022-07-30T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-07-30T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Busbridge Church

A Renaissance Sequence

A choral recital that features Renaissance music from the 16th and 17th centuries, by composers all across the European continent.

Busbridge Church

Hello! We are a newly formed choral group consisting of 6 young singers aged between 18- 23 that love choral music. Between us, we have trained at some prestigious institutions including the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cambridge University and the world-renowned
 Rodolfus Choir under Ralph Allwood. We gathered together this summer to transport
 you back to the High Renaissance, through a performance of captivating works by composers all
 over the European continent including Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, des Prez, Gesualdo and many more.
The 16th century was a period of vigorous economic expansion. This expansion in turn played a
 major role in the many other transformations- social, political and cultural- of the modern age.
 During this time, music was freed from medieval constrains, and more variety was permitted in
 range, rhythm, harmony, form and notation. It has become a vehicle for personal expression.
 Composers found ways to make vocal music more expressive of the text they were setting, which
 can be seen in both sacred and secular works across the continent.
 This evening, our concert will take you on a journey through major musical cities in Europe during
 that era, while exploring the distinct qualities of their famous composers. We start in the royal
 court of Henry VIII to Mary I, generally travelling south in the sweet harmonies of John Sheppard,
 the bitter regrets of des Prez, the politics of Protestant Germany, the glory of Rome and finally,
 the ground-breaking experiment of Gesualdo.N.B.: Masks are suggested to be worn for the duration of the performance.

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