Ex Cathedra Scholars
Jeffrey Skidmore – Conductor
The Grand Tour – Burney at 300
Handel Zadok the Priest
Purcell Jehovah quam multi sunt hostes mei
Charpentier Transfige dulcissime Jesu
Haydn The heavens are telling (The Creation)
Allegri Miserere
Lotti Crucifixus
Mozart Ave verum
Bach Komm, Jesu, komm
To mark the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney, England’s great eighteenth-century music historian, Ex Cathedra’s Scholars Ensemble invites you to take a musical Grand Tour, inspired by the man whose vivid diary provides some of the clearest portraits of musical life in 18th-century Europe.
Beginning in London and travelling through Paris, Vienna, Rome, Venice and Germany, this programme traces Burney’s remarkable journeys, with glorious music by Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart and Bach, together with the iconic Miserere by Allegri, whose publication by Burney in London in 1771 helped extend its fame and enhance the legend.
From Handel’s Zadok the Priest to Mozart, Beethoven and Bach’s magnificent double-choir motet Komm, Jesu, komm, this is a rich panorama of European choral music, framed by the insight and wit of Shropshire-born Burney, whose work brought the sounds and stories of this music to British audiences.
The finer details…
‘Behind the Music’ FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student
Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore director
Our First Love – the English Renaissance
We all remember our first love! For Jeffrey and the founding members of Ex Cathedra it was the English Renaissance, a golden age in which composers created a treasury of truly inspiring choral repertoire. So it feels fitting that for a return to live concerts, Ex Cathedra return to their first love with this programme of powerfully emotional music from Tallis, Sheppard, Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons, and more.
Concert generously supported by The Grimmitt Trust
This concert is now sold out as, working to the current social distancing guidelines, our numbers were strictly limited.
Concert will run straight through with no interval
Directed by Jeffrey Skidmore
Frances Kelly harp
James Johnstone organ
Simone Rebello percussion
Fire Burning in Snow
“For fire burning in snow is the effect of love” – the final line of Juan de Araujo’s Dime, amor gives this programme its title and conjures up the passion and dramatic contrasts which make it such a delight. Ex Cathedra returns to St Mary’s with exuberant music from the Latin American Baroque, full of evocative indigenous imagery: repertoire for which the ensemble has received rapturous acclaim.
Concert generously supported by Murray Campbell, John Hobley, Jonathan Holden, Roger Massie and Margaret Pringle.
Tickets: £24 and £19 reserved central nave; £15 unreserved rear nave, £13 unreserved sides.
Directed by Jeffrey Skidmore
with Alexander Mason organ
Monteverdi – In Search of 1610
Following a number of performances in the area of the Vespers, Ex Cathedra explores how Monteverdi developed the brilliant fusion of musical styles in his famous 1610 collection.
The Ex Cathedra singers bring this to light through intimate performances of Monteverdi’s sensuous madrigals, and the devotional settings adapted to be ‘made spiritual’. Two rarely heard works from the 1610 collection complete the programme.
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