Ad Cor: Heartfelt Music for Voices and Viols
| Michael Praetorius | Nun helft mir Gottes Güte preisen |
| Eustache Du Caurroy | Cinq Fantasies sur ‘Une jeune fillette’ |
| Henry Dumont | Media vita in morte sumus |
| Marc-Antoine Charpentier | O Amor, O Bonitas, O Charitas H245 |
| Litanies de la Vierge H83 | |
| Heinrich Schütz | Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz |
| Sebastian Knüpfer | De profundis |
| Diderik Buxtehude | Ad Cor (Membra Jesu Nostri) |
| Johann Christoph Bach | Es ist nun aus |
- Philippa Hyde soprano
- Stuart O’Hara bass
- Psalmody
- London Viols
- directed by Peter Holman
A programme of superb 17th‐century music for voices, viol consort and continuo, taking its title Ad Cor from Buxtehude’s vocal concerto, the high point of his cycle Membra Jesu Nostri. The main works are Schütz’s Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross and Charpentier’s great Litany of the Virgin. There is also music by Michael Praetorius and other French and German contemporaries. We end with a haunting funeral aria by Johann Christoph Bach, a memorial to Julia King (1958‐2019), a longstanding and valued member of Psalmody.
Tickets: £18 (reserved), £12 (unreserved)