Winchester Gig Guide
Western Wind: Music from Tudor England
Sunday 25 September 2011 -- EVENT HAS PASSED
Venue: Church of St Cross map
Address: Saint Cross Back Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9SD
Western Wind: Music from Tudor England
Start time: 7.30pm
£15 (£12 concessions for under 16, students, unwaged and disabled). One of Britain's leading early music chamber choirs sings a Renaissance masterpiece in the glorious acoustic of St Cross. The Cambridge Taverner Choir - one of Britain's foremost early music chamber choirs - returns once again to Winchester to sing Renaissance choral masterpieces from Tudor England, in the glorious acoustic of St Cross. One of the greatest works of English sixteenth-century music, Taverner's Western Wind Mass is also one of the most striking: a kaleidoscopic set of variations on a memorable secular tune. Taverner was the greatest English composer working in the decades before the Reformation in England. In this concert, the Western Wind Mass is performed alongside his majestic psalm-setting Quemadmodum desiderat and his famous Eastertide responsory Dum transisset sabbatum, together with the moving sacred song Jesu, mercy, how may this be, by his contemporary John Browne. Contact 01962 857 275. boxoffice@winchester-cathedral.org.uk.
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