The Renaissance Singers of London
The Renaissance Singers is London’s leading amateur chamber choir specialising in European sacred music of the 15th-17th centuries. We perform music by well-known great composers of the period including Josquin, Tallis, Byrd, Lassus, Palestrina and Victoria as well as giving rare airings to gems by lesser-known musicians.
We have a varied annual programme giving around five concerts a year, mainly in London, and undertake occasional overseas tours and exchange projects with foreign choirs.
The choir also hosts three workshops a year, open to all, where we explore Renaissance repertoire under expert direction. Among our recent workshop leaders are John Milsom, Sally Dunkley, Philip Thorby and Bruno Turner.
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Forthcoming Events
The Renaissance Singers is a registered charity number 1015930 and member of Making Music
Mater dolorosa: The Seven Sorrows of Mary
Saturday 31st March 2012, 7.30pm
Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QE
Director David Allinson
Pre-concert lecture, 6.15pm
Speaker Dr Paula Nuttall
In May 2010 the Renaissance Singers gave a recital celebrating The Seven Joys of Mary. In this companion programme we explore the sorrows and torments endured by the Mother of God, through some of the most poignant and arresting music of the Renaissance. From the Prophecy of Simeon to the Crucifixion of Jesus and its aftermath, composers have responded to the drama and pathos of Mary’s life with sublime music.
This Lenten concert will include settings of the Nunc dimittis, Vox in Rama, the Crucifixus and the Stabat mater. Climax of the programme will be the Stabat mater by John Browne, from the Eton Choirbook.
Dr Paula Nuttall, Director of the V&A Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Year Course, will examine the cult of the Virgin with particular emphasis on the Seven Sorrows, using imagery from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, north and south of the Alps.
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Meet the Artist : Sally Dunkley
Thursday 15th March 2012, 7-9 pm
St Paul’s Knightsbridge Church Hall, 77 Kinnerton Street, SW1X 8ED
Join the Renaissance Singers for an evening of music, wine and conversation - the first in a new series of ‘Meet the Artist’ evenings where eminent figures in the field of early music talk about the high points of their career and share some of the music that has featured most significantly on the way. Soprano Sally Dunkley is our first special guest and will be interviewed by Alistair Dixon, conductor of Chapelle du Roi and former Chairman of the Renaissance Singers.
Tickets £10 (including a glass of wine).
Places are strictly limited and must be pre-booked.
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