Saturday 11th February 2012

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

By popular request we repeated 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 traced 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

Exeter Cathedral

Requiem – Mozart

Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen

Sanctus – Ola Gjeilo

with

David Davies (organ)

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

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

Saturday 7th July 2012, 7.30 pm

Buckfast Abbey

The Journey from Medieval to Renaissance 3

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.

Programme:

St Anselm, Lucca c.1080 – Plainsong: Salve Regina (Hail, holy Queen)
Magister Petronius, Notre Dame c.1190 – Beata viscera Marie Virginis (Mary's blessed flesh)
Alfonso X ("El Sabio" – The Wise) Castille c.1260 – Virgen Santa Maria (Holy Virgin Mary)
York Mystery Plays c.1350 – 2 excerpts
John Dunstaple, Bedford c.1425 – Quam pulcra es (How beautiful you are)
Guillaume Dufay, Cambrai c.1460 – Alma redemptoris mater (Saviour's loving mother)
Josquin des Prez, Rome c.1490 – Ave Maria (Hail Mary)
John Taverner, Lincolnshire c.1520 – O Christe Jesu, pastor bone (Good shepherd, Jesus)

INTERVAL

Jacob Clemens non Papa, Belgium c.1530 – Ego Flos Campi (I am the flower of the field)
Thomas Tallis, London/Canterbury c.1540 – O sacrum convivium (O sacred banquet)
John Sheppard, London c.1550 – Media Vita (In the midst of life) - a 20 minute epic!
William Byrd, London c.1575 – Ave verum corpus (Hail true body)
Orlando Gibbons, London c.1610 – O clap your hands (Psalm 47)