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Reformation Remainers

Part of the Brighton Early Music Festival 2018

Add to my Calendar 10-11-2018 19:30 10-11-2018 21:30 36 Reformation Remainers Many historians have pointed out the similarities between the English Reformation (the break with Rome) and Brexit (the break with Brussels). Most notably, the country in each case becomes fiercely divided with passions running high. This programme looks at the lives and music of three Tudor composers: John Taverner, born a Catholic but drawn towards the be-leavers in Lutheranism and repenting his ‘Popish songs’; Thomas Tallis, who remained loyal to Rome his entire life; and his friend and pupil, William Byrd, who converted to Catholicism and wrote music covertly bemoaning the fallen state of England. Music includes movements from Taverner’s splendid pre-Reformation Missa Corona spinea, Tallis’s Lamentations and works in English and Latin by all three composers. St Bartholomews Church, Brighton and Hove DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Bartholomews Church
Ann Street
Brighton and Hove
East Sussex
BN1 4GP
England

Programme

Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah

Performers

BREMF Consort of Voices

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Programme Note

Many historians have pointed out the similarities between the English Reformation (the break with Rome) and Brexit (the break with Brussels). Most notably, the country in each case becomes fiercely divided with passions running high.

This programme looks at the lives and music of three Tudor composers: John Taverner, born a Catholic but drawn towards the be-leavers in Lutheranism and repenting his ‘Popish songs’; Thomas Tallis, who remained loyal to Rome his entire life; and his friend and pupil, William Byrd, who converted to Catholicism and wrote music covertly bemoaning the fallen state of England. Music includes movements from Taverner’s splendid pre-Reformation Missa Corona spinea, Tallis’s Lamentations and works in English and Latin by all three composers.

BREMF Consort of Voices

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