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Bourgie Corridor has kick-started the 12 months with a plethora of concert events. Native musicians
and ensembles—akin to SMAM (Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal) on
Feb. 12, Les Violons du Roy on Feb. 24, Nicolas Ellis and Cameron Crozman on March
10, and Orchestre Métropolitain, directed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, on March 26—and
worldwide musicians are entrance and centre.
The Gesualdo Six will make their debut in Quebec. Famend for his or her Renaissance
repertoire performances, the United Kingdom-based Gesualdo Six will give a one-
of-a-kind live performance in Montreal on Feb. 21. Montreal would be the last cease of the singers’
North American tour that took them to 10 cities from west to east.
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“Touring is one thing we’ve performed for some time now. I’ve by no means been to Montreal however very excited to carry out there,”
– Owain Park, Gesualdo Six director and founding member.
The Gesualdo Six wish to present quite a lot of music packages as a part of their February
tour. For his or her live performance in Montreal, motets by English composers can be programmed. Most of those motets are obscure. “The composers that get forgotten by larger choirs are those which might be writing in three or 4 elements. That’s the place we will shed a lightweight on these. A complete program of it wouldn’t essentially make sense for us. It will be too research-based or musicological in some methods. We want to have the emotion of the music guiding us, so we wish to have a little bit little bit of the whole lot.”
William Byrd frequently seems within the Gesualdo Six programming, particularly in a 12 months once we will have a good time the four-hundredth anniversary of his dying. Byrd remained Catholic though England had chosen to chop ties with the pope and speak in confidence to the Protestant Reformation. “There was numerous friction, nevertheless it produced some unbelievable music. We’re grateful for that. Final month, we had the primary of our Secret Byrd venture occurring on the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London, England). We carried out downstairs within the Crypt, which is fascinating as a result of it provides a distinct feeling than a live performance. It’s a little bit extra of that immersive efficiency,” mentioned Park.
Different concert events devoted to Byrd can be given between now and the tip of the 12 months, in
addition to a recording of his Mass for 5 Voices and numerous motets, scheduled for Might 2023. As a part of the ensemble’s tenth anniversary, the Gesualdo Six singers hope to revive their first live performance, given in March 2014, and as soon as once more current Carlo Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories. The ensemble was named after that very composer.
Translated by Dwain Richardson
The Gesualdo Six will sing works by Forest, Sheryngham, Sheppard, Energy, Weelkes, Tomkins, Tallis and Byrd for its English Motets live performance, on Feb 21 at Bourgie Corridor. www.thegesualdosix.co.uk
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