A Flemish Christmas

Sacred song in midwinter

 

Saturday 14 December 2024, 7.30pm

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St Mary’s, Bourne Street

30 Bourne Street, Belgravia

London SW1W 8JJ

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Conducted by David Allinson

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This December, The Renaissance Singers mark the season of Advent and herald the coming of Christmas with some of the most arresting and brilliant music written in the decades around 1500.

 

With a special focus on Mary, mother of Jesus, we sing music from the cathedrals and chapels of the Franco-Flemish flatlands, by  composers including Ockeghem, Obrecht, Compère and Mouton — composers too often overshadowed by their contemporary, Josquin. 

 

From the ravishing Nesciens Mater by Mouton, a canonic tour-de-force which casts an intimate portrait of the Virgin nursing the baby Jesus, to the fervent yearning of Obrecht’s titanic Salve Regina, and on to the textural complexity of his Factor orbis, a glorious and rarely-performed 'musical sermon', this is no ordinary Christmas concert.

 

Join us on a path less travelled as we explore the textures, techniques and emotions of music which will move and delight.

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Programme

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Antoine Busnois Noel, noel

Antoine Brumel Noe, noe, noe 

Loyset Compère O admirabile commercium

Jean Mouton Noe, noe, psallite

Johannes Ockeghem Salve Regina

Jacob Obrecht Factor orbis

Jacob Obrecht Salve Regina

Antoine Mornable Nesciens Mater 

Dominique Phinot Virgo parens 

Jean Mouton Nesciens Mater