Best of Monteverdi Choir
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.
breathtaking
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
Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord
2minsPurcell Funeral Sentences
15minsII. 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
JS Bach Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV226
8minsJohann Christoph Bach Ach, dass ich Wasser gnug hätte (Lamento)
8minsJS Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225
13minsI. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
II. Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet
III. Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
Purcell Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z.135
7minsHandel Dixit Dominus
34minsI. 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 SellsConductor
- Zoë BrookshawSoprano
- Chloë MorganSoprano
- Reginald MobleyCountertenor
- Hugo HymasTenor
- Florian StörtzBass
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- SopranoZoë Brookshaw
Chloë Morgan
Rachel Allen
Eloise Irving
Lucy Knight
Charlotte La Thrope
Emily Owen
Theano Papadaki
Rebecca Ramsey
Cressida Sharp - AltoReginald Mobley
Francesca Biliotti
Sarah Denbee
Annie Gill
Hamish McLaren
Tim Morgan - TenorHugo Hymas
Oscar Golden-Lee
Thomas Herford
Tom Kelly
Edward Ross
Will Wright - BassFlorian Störtz
Robert Davies
Tristan Hambleton
Jack Lawrence-Jones
Thomas Lowen
George Vines
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- ConductorJonathan Sells
- ViolinBojan Čičić
Sarah Bealby-Wright
Guy Button
Davina Clarke
George Clifford
Will Harvey
Will McGahon
Sophia Prodanova
Rachel Simpson
Rachel Stroud - ViolaLisa Cochrane
Thomas Kettle
Joanne Miller
Jane Rogers - CelloRuth Alford
Pedro da Silva
Felix Knecht - Double BassKate Brooke
Rosie Moon - BassoonPhilip Turbett
- OrganJames Johnstone
- HarpsichordPaolo Zanzu
- TheorboPablo FitzGerald
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