Saturday 11th February 2012, 7.30 pm

In Memoriam: Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612)

Counterpoint

Tickets

£8 in advance
£10 on the door (if available)

From:

CounterpointVox@aol.com
01392 490398
Counterpoint, 5 Exe View Cottages, St Andrew's Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 2AB

By popular request we are repeating this concert from eight years ago.

Henry, son of James I, died at 18 of typhoid fever. He was admired and liked by the population as a whole and his death was a huge blow to the country. He would have been Henry IX and on his death the ill-fated reign of Charles I became the heir apparent.

The concert traces his short life and times through music, together with a re-creation of his funeral in Westminster Abbey on 7th December 1612.

Programme:

Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears
Morley – Funeral Sentences 1
Byrd – Come, to me grief for ever
Ravenscroft – Remember, O thou man
Morley – Nolo mortem peccatoris
Ramsey – When David heard
Gibbons – O Lord, in the wrath
Lobo – Versa est in luctum

Interval

Weelkes – Laboravi in gemitu
Padilla – Circumdederunt me dolores
Morley – Funeral Sentences 2
Weelkes – When David heard
Byrd – Ave verum
Byrd – Ne irascaris
Tomkins – Almighty God, fountain of all goodness
Final plainsong chant – Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord

Saturday 19th May 2012, 7.30 pm

Exeter Cathedral

Requiem – Mozart

Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen

Sanctus – Ola Gjeilon

with

David Davies (organ)

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The Annual Counterpoint Bursary Fund concert for Girl and Boy Choristers.

The concert includes the first South-West performance of Sanctus by Ola Gjeilon (Youtube link).

Saturday 7th July 2012, 7.30 pm

Buckfast Abbey

The Journey from Medieval to Renaissance 3

Counterpoint

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Counterpoint’s third and final concert in the series The Journey from Medieval to Renaissance presents several new and rarely heard composers to a South-West audience.

Music to include works by: