Best of Monteverdi Choir

Led by conductor Jonathan Sells, the Baroque choir present a dazzling showcase of their repertoire.

The Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists have been at the cutting edge of historically informed performance since their foundation over 60 years ago. With esteemed Baroque conductor Jonathan Sells – himself a former Monteverdi singer – at the helm, the Monteverdi Choir showcases enthralling works from their repertoire.

The performance opens with Purcell. Heard at every royal funeral service for the past three hundred years, Henry Purcell's deeply moving Funeral Sentences is a poignant musical expression of the sorrow and dignity surrounding death.

Closing the concert is George Frideric Handel'sspectacular Dixit Dominus, a tour-de-force of the choral repertoire that showcases both the 22-year-old composer's utter mastery of the form and the assembled musicians' facility with its dramatic and technical demands.

This concert will be recorded for broadcast by our partners BBC Radio 3. Find out more.

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breathtaking
The Guardian

Supported by Dunard Fund

Programme

Sung in English, German and Latin with English surtitles.

A keepsake freesheet is available at the venue for this performance.

Full programme

II. Man that is born of a woman
III. In the midst of life we are in death
V. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

I. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
II. Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet
III. Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten

I. Dixit Dominus
II. Virgam virtutis tuae
III. Tecum principium in die virtutis
IV. Juravit Dominus
V. Tu es sacerdos in aeternum
VI. Dominus a dextris tuis
VII. Judicabit in nationibus
VIII. De torrente in via bibet
IX. Gloria Patri, et Filio

Performers

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Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Jonathan Sells
Conductor
Zoë Brookshaw
Soprano
Chloë Morgan
Soprano
Reginald Mobley
Countertenor
Hugo Hymas
Tenor
Florian Störtz
Bass

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Soprano
Zoë Brookshaw
Chloë Morgan
Rachel Allen
Eloise Irving
Lucy Knight
Charlotte La Thrope
Emily Owen
Theano Papadaki
Rebecca Ramsey
Cressida Sharp
Alto
Reginald Mobley
Francesca Biliotti
Sarah Denbee
Annie Gill
Hamish McLaren
Tim Morgan
Tenor
Hugo Hymas
Oscar Golden-Lee
Thomas Herford
Tom Kelly
Edward Ross
Will Wright
Bass
Florian Störtz
Robert Davies
Tristan Hambleton
Jack Lawrence-Jones
Thomas Lowen
George Vines

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Conductor
Jonathan Sells
Violin
Bojan Čičić
Sarah Bealby-Wright
Guy Button
Davina Clarke
George Clifford
Will Harvey
Will McGahon
Sophia Prodanova
Rachel Simpson
Rachel Stroud
Viola
Lisa Cochrane
Thomas Kettle
Joanne Miller
Jane Rogers
Cello
Ruth Alford
Pedro da Silva
Felix Knecht
Double Bass
Kate Brooke
Rosie Moon
Bassoon
Philip Turbett
Organ
James Johnstone
Harpsichord
Paolo Zanzu
Theorbo
Pablo FitzGerald