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Light & Shadow: Vox Luminis at Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice

By Charlotte Valori, 16 May 2016
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“with harmonies shimmering away like watered silk”
Reviewed at St John's College Chapel, Cambridge on 12 May 2016
Programme
Tallis, O nata lux
Tallis, Videte miraculum
Sheppard, In manus tuas
Ramsey, How are the mighty fall'n
Weelkes, A remembrance of my friend Thomas Morley "Death Hath Deprived Me"
White, Christe, qui lux es et dies
Tallis, Hear the voice and prayer
Tomkins, When David Heard
Sheppard, In pace
Morley, Funeral Sentences
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Vox Luminis
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Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.