Stile Antico: In a Strange Land
Elizabethan composers in exile
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“Stile Antico is anything but antique. Their sound has the urgency and freshness you get from young voices, and an amazing rhythmic vitality.”
The Daily Telegraph
John Dowland Flow my tears
Philippe de Monte Super flumina Babylonis
William Byrd Quomodo cantabimus
Richard Dering Sancta et immaculata virginitas
Thomas Tallis In ieunio et fletu
Peter Philips Reginal caeli, laetare
William Byrd Tristitia et anxietas
William Byrd Haec dies
Peter Philips Gaude Maria / Virgo prudentissima
John Dowland In this trembling shadow
Richard Dering Factum est silentium
Robert White Lamentations a 5
Stile Antico, one of the most original of the new generation of vocal ensembles, explore music of astonishing intensity and profound emotional impact by Catholic composers on the wrong side of the religious divide during Elizabethan times. Torn between obedience and conscience, several of England’s most talented musicians – Philips, Dering and Dowland – chose a life of exile abroad. Those Catholic composers who remained in England – chief amongst them William Byrd and Robert White – expressed their spiritual exile in music of astonishing and subtle power.
This concert is kindly supported by Colin and Suzanne Doak
View the concert’s programme note, texts and translations here
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