Diary

Last updated: 16 August 2023

For more information on concerts, special services and workshops I am giving in the next few months, please see below:

Event Information:

  • Diary

    For more information on concerts, special services and workshops I am giving in the next few months, please see below:

    Event Information:

    • Thu
      04
      Mar
      2021

      Surrexit Pastor Bonus — motets of Hope and Resurrection

      7:30 pmOn Zoom for TVEMF
      Surrexit pastor bonus — motets of hope and resurrection
      by L’Héritier, Victoria and others 
       
      An online talk for Thames Valley Early Music Forum
      Thursday 4 March 2021 at 7.30pm on Zoom
      Advance booking essential, via this link: click here.
      Minimum admission price £5, plus optional donation.
      After a dark and difficult winter, we are thirsting for brighter times. So, although this talk falls during the penitential season of Lent, our theme is resurrection. With a focus is on polyphonic settings of the text for Easter Day, Surrexit pastor bonus ('The good shepherd is risen’), we will explore  sublime pieces by Jean L’Héritier, Victoria and other high Renaissance masters.
      While Victoria’s Surrexit shimmers with joy, L’Héritier’s setting casts a spell of awestruck wonder and mystery. In this talk, David leads us through a lively mixture of historical context, musical analysis and practical interpretation, helping us to explore this beautiful music from multiple angles, and in ways not usually possible at a regular choral workshop.