4 violas da gamba & voice (Amelia Berridge)
(60 minutes)
This program presents an evocative journey through English Renaissance consort music and sacred polyphony, contrasting intricate In Nomines and reflective lamentations with poignant vocal settings for solo voice and four violas da gamba. By juxtaposing masterworks from Tudor icons like Byrd, Tallis, and Taverner with the intense, expressive chromaticism of Carlo Gesualdo, the concert explores themes of devotion, sorrow, and contemplative beauty across the 16th and early 17th centuries.
- The English In Nomine Tradition (Settings by Byrd, Tallis, Bull, and Taverner)
- Lamentations & Sacred Sorrow (Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah • White: Lamentations)
- Devotional Motets & Consort Songs (Ferrabosco: ‘Hear me o God’ 4-note Pavan • Byrd: ‘Ave verum corpus’, Miserere mei I & II)
- Madrigalian Expressivity & Continental Chromaticism (Gesualdo: ‘Tristis est anima mea’, ‘O vos omnes’)