Fri., Sep 10 (Portland); Sat., Sep 11 (Seattle)
From the Chapel Royal
Robert Parsons (c.1535–1571/2) Ave Maria a5,
O bone Jesu a5
John Sheppard (c.1515–1558) Media vita a6
From the Eton Choirbook
John Browne (fl. c. 1490) Stabat mater a6
Jesu, mercy, how may this be? a4
William Cornysh (1465–1523) Woefully arrayed a4
Magnificat a5
Buy This Performance
Guy Protheroe (The English Chamber Choir,
The Byzantine Festival in London) makes his
Cappella Romana debut directing a program
of virtuosic music by English composers in the
Christian West.
Drawn from the Chapel Royal and the famous
Eton Choirbook, this program of Tudor music
is crowned by John Sheppard’s monumental
motet, Media vita in morte sumus (“In the midst
of life we are in death”). St. Thomas Aquinas
was said to have been moved to tears by these
sublime words. Soaring devotional motets in
Latin and sacred anthems in English complete
the program.
Singers, noting only a few of their other ensembles:
Rebekah Gilmore (The Tudor Choir; Seattle)
Catherine van der Salm (In Mulieribus; Portland)
Stephanie Kramer (Byrd Festival, Resonance; Portland)
LeaAnne DenBeste (Sinfonia Concertante, Choral Cross-Ties, Oregon Repertory Singers; Portland)
Joshua Haberman (The Tudor Choir, Seattle)
Tim Galloway (Resonance; Portland)
Blake Applegate (Cantores in Ecclesia, The Byrd Festival; Portland)
Kerry McCarthy (Cantores in Ecclesia, The Byrd Festival, Portland/Duke University)
Mark Powell (Tudor Choir [1993-2002], Resonance, Cappella Romana; Portland)
Thomas Thompson (The Tudor Choir; Seattle)
Adam Steele (PBO, Choral Cross Ties, et al.; Portland)
Scott Graff (Concord Ensemble, Los Angeles Masterchorale; Long Beach/Los Angeles)
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