Press Release from The Chandos Singers Conductor Malcolm Hill

The Chandos Singers are pleased to announce details of their forthcoming celebration of and three other composers with anniversaries in 2017. The concert, entitled A Renaissance Sequence, will take place at 7.30pm on Saturday 1st April 2017 at The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath BA2 4PX.

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The Chandos Singers, conducted by Malcolm Hill, are one of Bath’s leading chamber choirs.

Their most recent concert, in Magdalen Chapel on 4th February, used choral music to demonstrate how Renaissance composers disguised and elaborated quotations from their own work.

This time the Chandos Singers will celebrate Claudio Monteverdi (born 1567) and three other Renaissance composers who have anniversaries this year; the programme demonstrates the variety of their work while including settings of Cantate Domino by three of the composers.

Monteverdi is represented by a scene from his opera The Return of Ulysses (featuring Paul Feldwick, bass), an extended , Sestina, a lament on the death of his 18-year-old lodger, two joyous church works for mixed choruses, a set of solo performed by Jane Hunt (soprano) accompanied by Din Ghani (archlute), and two operatic duets sung by Katharine Adams and Jane Hunt.

The concert also includes varied motets by (died 1517), and movements from the In Te Domine Speravi Mass by Giovanni Francesco Anerio (born 1567), plus some of the most contrapuntally complex works by Alonso Lobo (died 5th April 1617), one of ’s two great Renaissance composers. Like Josquin, Bach and Webern, Lobo delighted in hidden canons, some of which were in reverse.

The concert will be held in the serene surroundings of the Magdalen Chapel on Holloway, Bath. A chapel is known to have existed on this site in the 11th century, and a leper hospital was built close by in the 12th. Both were under the care of the Abbey monks. The current building is 15th century. Despite severe bomb damage in 1942, it remains an active centre of worship.

Interval refreshments will be available.

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Saturday 1st April 2017, 7.30pm | The Magdalen Chapel, Holloway, Bath BA2 4PX

Tickets: £12, students £5 Bath Box Office: 01225 463362 | [email protected] Online: http://bathboxoffice.org.uk/whatson/a-renaissance-sequence/

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Further Details: Mandy Shaw 07710 447966 | [email protected]

Chandos Singers www.chandossingers.co.uk | Magdalen Chapel www.magdalenchapelbath.co.uk