Ex Cathedra - In a Strange Land
Choral at Cadogan 2016-17
Repertoire
- Orchésographie de Thoinot
- Arbeau Belle qui tiens ma vie
- Genevan Psalter
- Estans assis aux rives aquatiques
- Sweelinck
- Estans assis aux rives aquatiques
- Byrd
- Mass for Four Voices: Kyrie, Gloria
- Weelkes
- Thule, the Period of Cosmography; The Andalusian Merchant
- Byrd
- Mass for Four Voices: Credo
- Tomkins
- When David Heard
- Tallis
- Why fum’th in fight
- Tallis
- If ye love me
- Byrd
- Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus
- Byrd
- Ave verum corpus
- Byrd
- Mass for Four Voices: Agnus Dei
- Gibbons
- O clap your hands together
- Ritual, Lima (1631)
- Hanac pachap cussicuinin
- Victoria
- Super flumina Babylonis a 8
- Padilla
- Missa Ego flos campi: Kyrie, Gloria
- 14th century Spanish
- Polorum regina
- Fernandes
- Xicochi conetzintle
- Symbolico Catholico Indiano (1598)
- Capac eterno Dios
- Padilla
- Missa Ego flos campi: Credo
- Pascual
- ¡Oy es día de placer y de cantar!
- Padilla
- Missa Ego flos campi: Sanctus
- Lobo
- Versa est in luctum
- Padilla
- Missa Ego flos campi: Agnus Dei
- Hernández
- Sancta Maria, e!
- Zéspedes
- Convidando esta la noche
- Anon
- Dulce, Jesús mío
Performers
- Ex Cathedra
- Jeffrey Skidmore
- conductor
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”
This well-known verse from Psalm 137, a hymn of captivity and longing for homeland and religious freedom, gives this programme its title and its theme. In a Strange Land explores man’s search for heaven and earth in the Old and the New World in the turbulence of the 16th and 17th centuries. There is music of religious conflict and of discovery from England, France, Holland, Spain – and from Mexico and Bolivia, the world of the Aztecs and Incas.
The programme includes William Byrd’s exquisite Mass for Four Voices alongside gems by Gesualdo, Lobo, Tallis and Victoria, the lilting syncopation of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla’s Missa Ego flos campi, and rhythmically-arresting music from the Latin American Baroque, full of evocative, indigenous imagery.
Part of Choral at Cadogan 2016-17.
