FRANCE
Sacred music in the reign of Henri II
"Protestant" music by LEJEUNE, GOUDIMEL and SWEELINCK. "Catholic" music by MAILLARD and CERTON
8 singers, lute
CHARPENTIER : Motets and "Histoires sacrées"
Le Reniement de St Pierre, Transfige dulcissime Jesu, Méditations sur le Carême for men's voices, etc.
6 singers, organ, theorbo, bass viol
FRENCH MUSIC "at Court and in Town"
"Grands motets" by DUMONT and CHARPENTIER
9 singers, 6 instruments
ITALY
PALESTRINA : Canticum Canticorum
6 singers
LASSUS : Les Prophéties des Sibylles
5 singers, organ
SACRED MUSIC BY CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
6 singers, continuo
VENETIAN MUSIC FOR SAN MARCO
For the celebrations of the "Serenissima Repubblica", motets and psalms by GABRIELI, CAVALLI,
MONTEVERDI and CROCE
9 singers, 13 instruments
DOMENICO SCARLATTI - GREGORIO ALLEGRI
Domenico SCARLATTI : Stabat mater for 10 voices,
Gregorio ALLEGRI/Tommaso BAI : Miserere (new edition prepared from a Vatican manuscript)
10 singers and organ
HÄNDEL "La Resurrezione"
The sacred masterpiece of Händel's Roman years.
5 solo singers, 22 instruments
ENGLAND
WILLIAM BYRD and his English contemporaries
Thomas TALLIS, Orlando GIBBONS, Christopher TYE etc. For 6 voices alone, or voices and viols
6 singers, organ
"THE CRIES OF LONDON"
By GIBBONS, WEELKES and DERING;
with DERING's "The Countrie Crye" and "New Fashions" by William COBBOLD For voices and viols
5 singers, 5 viols, lute, direction
The 40-part Motets
Two outstanding, almost mythic, works from the Renaissance :
Thomas TALLIS : Spem in alium nunqual habui and Alessandro STRIGGIO : Ecce beatam lucem
with works by BYRD, SCHÜTZ and LASSUS
40 singers, 6 instruments
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
SACRED MUSIC FROM THE NEW WORLD
Juan Gutierrez de PADILLA : Missa Ego Flos Campi à 8,
motets; Antonio RODRIGUEZ de MATA : Lamentations;
CAPILLAS, SALAZAR, Villançicos de MATIAS, DURAN de la MOTA and FLORES
8 singers, 5 instruments
GERMANY
"LOBET DEM HERREN" : 17th century German Masterworks
From the generation before Bach, passionate works by.
BUXTEHUDE, SCHÜTZ, TUNDER and WECKMANN : For small (5 voices, 2 violins and continuo), or large
(6 voices and 8 instruments) formations
Johann Sebastian BACH : EARLY CANTATAS
Cantatas 131, 16, 106, and one by his cousin Johann Ludwig BACH
Performed by solo voices
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MUSIC FROM EASTERN EUROPE
Adam Vaclav MICHNA Z OTRADOVIC
Missa Sancti Wenceslai and Litanies with works by JACOB and VEJVANOVSKY
12 singers, 12 instruments
BIBER : THE GLORY OF SALZBURG
For the Prince-Archbishop, two grandiose masses : Missa Bruxellensis for for 16 singers and 18 instruments;.
Missa Salisburgensis for 32 singers and 43 instruments.
MUSIC FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
We also combine music form different countries :
The roots of Oratorio
MONTEVERDI : Lamento della Madonna; GRANDI : Missus est Gabriel;
FOGGIA and TARDITI
CHARPENTIER : Le Reniement de St Pierre, Transfige dulcissime Jesu; DUMONT, etc.
5 singers, continuo
PURCELL and CHARPENTIER
Masterpieces of two famous contemporaries :
CHARPENTIER : Transfige dulcissime Jesu, Le Reniement de St Pierre, Litanies;
PURCELL : Saul and the witch of Endor, Let mine eyes run down with tears, Lord, I can suffer thy rebukes
5 singers, continuo
A EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS – happy music for the joyful season from throughout Europe
Italy : Giovanni LEGRENZI and Giovanni Antonio RIGATTI
France : Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER
England : Henry PURCELL
Hungary : Pal ESTERHAZY
Holland : Servaes de KONINCK
Germany : Johann Hermann SCHEIN, Heinrich SCHÜTZ, Andreas HAMMERSCHMIDT et Diderik BUXTEHUDE
4 singers, 4 instruments
STAGE WORKS
In concert versions with movement, or with dances and costumes :
Henry PURCELL : The Fairy Queen
9 singers, 14 instruments
Henry PURCELL : Dido and Aeneas
Performed with Witches Music to Macbeth dby John ECCLES. Variable forces according to the performing space :
minimum 5 soloists, 6 'tutti' singers, 8 instruments.
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER : Musique for Le Malade Imaginaire H.495
Ouverture / Eglogue / Petit opéra impromptu / Trois Intermèdes
10 singers and 12 instruments
Sébastien de BROSSARD : "Prologue sur la Prise de Mons" ou Les Géants Foudroyés (1681)
Written in 1691 to celebrate the (temporary) defeat of the League of Augsburg at Mons by an army commanded Louis
XIV in person. Programme completed by CHARPENTIER : Te Deum
13 singers, 18 instruments
HÄNDEL : PARNASSO IN FESTA
A serenata written in 1734 to celebrate the marriage of Princess Anne and Prince William of Orange in 1734,
and produced by Händel in his theatre in the Haymarket. The characters (Apollo, Orfeo, Proteo and several muses -
Euterpe, Calliope, Floride etc.) were "emblematically dressed, the whole Appearance being extremely magnificent".
10 singers (including 6 major roles), and about 17 instruments (strings, wind, horns and continuo)
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