Overview
The music for this concert, 'Time Stands Still', celebrates cultural varietas at the English court at the turn of the 17th Century.
Many English composers travelled in Europe during this tumultuous period, and John Dowland and John Coprario made clear reference to such travels through their published works. Both modelled compositions on music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder, who was one of the strongest influences at the formative Elizabethan court.
Dowland and Coprario represent two ends of the spectrum. One, celebrated to this day; the other discarded for years. Yet they share the same musical blood, and are placed side by side in this programme. Thomas Ford presented the dying efforts of the English polyphonic school, as the Stile Nuovo descended...
No programme of this nature is complete without an understanding of the European musical scene at the time. Here we dissect the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini, showing the true nature of musical discourse.
Performers
L鈥橧sola [Lee-so-lah] is not a choir; it consists of 4-6 soloists. Consort singing, one to a part, is exposed and technically demanding. We strive not for 鈥榖lend鈥 but for unity of sound, enriched by individual colour in a 鈥渃reative democracy鈥 which favours real-time artistic decision-making over predefined rules. The group hope you will experience the difference through sound: raw, organic, unfiltered, immersive.
Directed by Matthew Alec Gouldstone, L鈥橧sola is also an incubator for the cream of young vocal talent emerging from the University of Cambridge and its world-class chapel choirs. The finest voices are hand-picked from within these institutions and then exposed to cutting-edge research and the highest standards of performance practise to equip them for careers within Early Music. During this process, members of L鈥橧sola are trained to read fluently from original manuscripts and performances represent this methodology.
In an academic context, L鈥橧sola functions as a specialist performance arm of the early music research and development lab at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge Early Music Consort) directed by Matthew Gouldstone and Edward Wickham. L鈥橧sola also works in close partnership with CIRS (Cambridge Institute for Renaissance Studies) and the Journal of 16th Century Music in addition to various other arts and education establishments. L鈥橧sola therefore brings to audiences the fruits of Cambridge鈥檚 pioneering scholarship on music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, providing a new understanding about the way music was written and performed.
Singers:
Cantus: Helen Southernwood
Altus: Amy Bolster
Altus: June Rippon
Contratenor: Robert Murray-John
Tenor: Conor Sinclair
Bassus: Matthew Alec Gouldstone
Details
This concert is open to the public and there is no need to book.
Admission is free with a cash retiring collection.
A glass of madeira will be served in the Gallery from 18.00.
Access
This event will take place in the Dining Hall on the first floor of our main building. There is step-free access with a lift and an accessible toilet.
Music at Wolfson
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