Choral Singing / 16th Century Period Music
Dates:
Thursday 24 August, 7:30pm
Sunday 27 August, 2:00pm
Venue:
City Recital Hall
Review:
Tudor Portraits (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs), by Clive Paget. LimelightMagazine.Com. August 25, 2017.
Music transports us to other times and places. Journey to the Elizabethan era with our Symphony Chorus and works inspired by a golden age of English art. Thomas Tallis and Thomas Tomkins created a unique style of choral music: expressive, dramatic and intimate. A great English composer of a later generation rediscovered their music and was profoundly transformed: Ralph Vaughan Williams paid tribute to his forebears in his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and invoked the spirit of Shakespeare in his gorgeous Serenade to Music, but it is the Five Tudor Portraits that are Vaughan Williams’ most extended love letter to Merrie Olde England.
Sydney Philharmonia soloists rehearsing.
This suite of earthy and rowdy pictures of life in the 16th century portrays good-time girl Elinor Rumming, the hard-to-get Pretty Bess and a delicate requiem to a pet sparrow among much else. Teeming with humanity and humour, Five Tudor Portraits is deservedly one of Vaughan Williams’ most beloved works and a showpiece for a spirited, brilliant choir.
Programme:
TALLIS Why fum'th in fight
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
TOMKINS O Praise the Lord, All Ye Heathen
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Tudor Portraits
1. Ballad: The Tunning of Elinor Rumming / Balada: La destilería de Elinor Rumming
2. Intermezzo: Pretty / Hermosa Bess
3. Burlesca: Epitaph on / epitafio de John Jayberd of Diss
4. Romanza: Jane Scroop (Her Lament for Philip Sparrow / Su Lamento por Philip Gorrión)
5. Scherzo: Jolly Rutterkin
Artists:
Brett Weymark conductor
Morgan Balfour soprano
Bronwyn Douglass mezzo soprano
Evan Kirby tenor
Jarvis Dams baritone
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - Symphony Chorus
Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra
A Sampler. Here's "Five Tudor Portraits: I. Ballad - The Tunning of Elinor Rumming." Youtube, uploaded by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Topic, provided to Youtube by The Orchard Enterprises, published May 3, 2015. Pittsburgh Symphony, with William Steinberg.
Resources:
Five Tudor Portraits. A Choral Suites in Five Movements. Hyperion. Accessed August 18, 2017.
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Five Tudor Portraits. Youtube, uploaded by PN_Alternatives. Accessed August 24, 2017. Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton. Mezzo-Soprano: Sarah Walker. Baritone: Henry Herford. Choir: Guildford Choral Society / Sociedad Coral de Guildford.
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Vaughan Williams' portraits of Tudor life, saggy tits and all. Limelight Magazine feature article. Accessed August 18, 2017.
(c) 2017. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
Dates:Thursday 24 August, 7:30pm
Sunday 27 August, 2:00pm
Venue:
City Recital Hall
Review:
Tudor Portraits (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs), by Clive Paget. LimelightMagazine.Com. August 25, 2017.
Music transports us to other times and places. Journey to the Elizabethan era with our Symphony Chorus and works inspired by a golden age of English art. Thomas Tallis and Thomas Tomkins created a unique style of choral music: expressive, dramatic and intimate. A great English composer of a later generation rediscovered their music and was profoundly transformed: Ralph Vaughan Williams paid tribute to his forebears in his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and invoked the spirit of Shakespeare in his gorgeous Serenade to Music, but it is the Five Tudor Portraits that are Vaughan Williams’ most extended love letter to Merrie Olde England.
Sydney Philharmonia soloists rehearsing.
This suite of earthy and rowdy pictures of life in the 16th century portrays good-time girl Elinor Rumming, the hard-to-get Pretty Bess and a delicate requiem to a pet sparrow among much else. Teeming with humanity and humour, Five Tudor Portraits is deservedly one of Vaughan Williams’ most beloved works and a showpiece for a spirited, brilliant choir.
Programme:
TALLIS Why fum'th in fight
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
TOMKINS O Praise the Lord, All Ye Heathen
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Tudor Portraits
1. Ballad: The Tunning of Elinor Rumming / Balada: La destilería de Elinor Rumming
2. Intermezzo: Pretty / Hermosa Bess
3. Burlesca: Epitaph on / epitafio de John Jayberd of Diss
4. Romanza: Jane Scroop (Her Lament for Philip Sparrow / Su Lamento por Philip Gorrión)
5. Scherzo: Jolly Rutterkin
Artists:
Brett Weymark conductor
Morgan Balfour soprano
Bronwyn Douglass mezzo soprano
Evan Kirby tenor
Jarvis Dams baritone
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - Symphony Chorus
Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra
A Sampler. Here's "Five Tudor Portraits: I. Ballad - The Tunning of Elinor Rumming." Youtube, uploaded by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Topic, provided to Youtube by The Orchard Enterprises, published May 3, 2015. Pittsburgh Symphony, with William Steinberg.
Resources:
Five Tudor Portraits. A Choral Suites in Five Movements. Hyperion. Accessed August 18, 2017.
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Five Tudor Portraits. Youtube, uploaded by PN_Alternatives. Accessed August 24, 2017. Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton. Mezzo-Soprano: Sarah Walker. Baritone: Henry Herford. Choir: Guildford Choral Society / Sociedad Coral de Guildford.
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Vaughan Williams' portraits of Tudor life, saggy tits and all. Limelight Magazine feature article. Accessed August 18, 2017.
(c) 2017. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
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