Gloria in excelsis Deo: Music of Death and Rebirth from Monteverdi to Handel
| Claudio Monteverdi | Confitebor tibi Domine |
| Giovanni Legrenzi | Sonata in G major ‘La pezzoli’, op. 4 |
| Christoph Bernhard | Aus der Tieffen |
| Johann Rosenmüller | Sonata no. 2 in E minor |
| Henry Purcell | In the black dismal dungeon of despair |
| Diderik Buxtehude | Herzlich thut mich verlangen |
| Arcangelo Corelli | Ciacona in G major, op. 2 no. 12 |
| George Frideric Handel | Gloria in B flat major |
- Philippa Hyde soprano
- The John Jenkins Consort:
- Judy Tarling violin
- Ilana Cravitz violin
- Louise Jameson bass violin
- Peter Holman chamber organ
A very special concert, twice postponed because of the pandemic and celebrating a ‘foreign tour’ to a new venue in Essex: St Mary’s, Wivenhoe, now beautifully restored and modernized. We take you in an hour of superb seventeenth-century music from Monteverdi’s light and certainty through darkness and doubt, powerfully expressed by Christoph Bernhard (a favourite Schütz pupil), Purcell and Buxtehude (a setting of the Passion chorale), to joy in the form of Handel’s youthful Gloria, only discovered in 2001 but now one of his most popular works.
Tickets: £15 (students £7.50)
SOLD OUT (but tickets are available for the repeat performance at 7pm)
Parking will be available in the car park of the William Loveless Hall (High St, CO7 9AB) and in the free public car park opposite The Greyhound pub (62 High St, CO7 9AZ)