The Tudor dynasty: Alamire perform at Cadogan Hall

By Emily Owen, 02 May 2013

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Reviewed at Cadogan Hall, London on 24 April 2013

Lambe, Nesciens Mater

Taverner, Christe Jesu, pastor bone

Sheppard, Filiae Jerusalem

Taverner, Quemadmodum

Sheppard, Verbum Caro

Taverner, O splendor gloriae

Tallis, If ye love me

Tallis, Tunes for Archbishop Parker's psalter

Byrd, Peccantem me quotidie

Tallis, Honor virtus et potestas

Tallis, In ieiunio et fletu

Tallis, Dum transisset Sabbatum

Byrd, Emendemus in Melius

Byrd, Tribue Domine

Alamire

David Skinner, Director

An evocative evening of Anne Boleyn's Songbook

Nick Boston, 17th March

Music from Anne Boleyn's Songbook in a highly evocative and expertly performed programme at Cadogan Hall.

*****

Mit den Waffen der Musik

Jens Klier, 2nd April

Mit durchdachtem Prorgamm und himmlischen Schönklang wird mir Alamire mit diesem Kölner Auftritt noch lange im Gedächtnis bleiben.

*****

La música de la corte de Enrique VIII

Pablo FitzGerald Cerdán, 25th November

El grupo Alamire interpretó un programa renacentista difícil con gran oficio, delicadeza y soltura.

*****

Mit den Waffen der Musik

Jens Klier, 2nd April

Mit durchdachtem Prorgamm und himmlischen Schönklang wird mir Alamire mit diesem Kölner Auftritt noch lange im Gedächtnis bleiben.

*****

More gold than corn: María Dueñas plays Korngold at the Barbican

Mark Pullinger, 22nd May

The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

****1

The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

****1

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Emily Owen

A postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama specialising in early music, Emily Owen is a freelance soprano, singing with numerous ensembles. She deputises in churches around London and also manages the newly formed London Youth Choir. Her website is here.