
Music for Passiontide and Commemoration
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‘Great Britain mourn!’ - Anthems by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins & Henry Purcell
Alonso Lobo St Matthew Passion (Chant from Toledo c.1600)
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge directed by Geoffrey Webber
The Cambridge University Viol Consort directed by William Hunt
Cornetts & Sackbuts from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama directed by Jeremy West
This concert features a rare chance to hear both a consort of viols and an ensemble of cornetts and sackbuts in combination with voices, featuring some of the finest English music of the 17th century. The concert also celebrates the anniversary of the death of Alonso Lobo in 1617.