Corde
Renaissance music, sung with heart
The drama of Christ's life
Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior Saturday 7th June 2003 at 8.00 pm
This new, Cambridge-based, eight-voice singing group aims to show how dramatic and passionate much of the sacred Renaissance repertoire is: they inject life, blood and drama into sublimely lovely music.
This concert portrays narrative, dramatic scenes from the life of Christ. Some of the music - edited from the original sources by Francis Steele has, astonishingly, not been performed for hundreds of years.
The singers are coached by Francis Steele of the Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen and the Gabrieli Consort. Though Francis still provides the bass sound for these world-famous groups, his enthusiasm is for working democratically with small groups of excellent singers to encourage probing interpretations of text as well as beautiful performances of the music.
The singers have come together from other vocal groups including Cambridge Voices, The Cambridge Taverner Choir, the Monteverdi Choir, Jesus College Chapel and the Orlandos.
Music by Guerrero, De Monte, Navarro, Gombert, Wert, Handl, Morales, Lassus, Victoria and Don Fernando de las Infantas.