Corvus Consort’s “Twelve Composers Composing” videos coming soon
The Corvus Consort looks forward to releasing twelve new videos during the Twelve Days of Christmas, as part of its “Twelve Composers Composing” project.
Twelve Days with Corvus Consort
The Corvus Consort looks forward to presenting “Twelve Composers Composing”, a project of new commissions for the Twelve Days of Christmas 2020.
Programmes for Lent: Reproaches, Lamentation and Penitence
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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
A choice of two programmes: full-length concert or hour-long programme
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This full-length concert programme explores how composers from the Renaissance to the present day have responded to Lenten themes of repentance, lamentation and petitions for mercy.
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Popule meus |
| Freddie Crowley - Stabat Mater |
| Vicente Lusitano - Emendemus in melius |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence |
| Interval |
| John Sanders - The Reproaches |
| William Byrd - Ne irascaris, Domine |
| James MacMillan - Miserere |
Hour-long programme
This hour-long programme juxtaposes Renaissance and 20th-century soundworlds by interspersing Francis Poulenc’s atmospheric Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence with works by Renaissance composers Thomas Tallis and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
| Thomas Tallis - Sancte Deus |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Timor et tremor |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Recessit pastor noster |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Vinea mea electa |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: O vos omnes |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Tenebrae factae sunt |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Ecce quomodo moritur justus |
| Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Tristis et anima mea |
| Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus |
Some other works that could be featured in similar programmes:
| Robert White - Miserere mei, Deus |
| Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah |
| Edgar Day - When I survey the wondrous cross |
Tashmina Artists welcomes the Corvus Consort to roster
It is an enormous pleasure to be able to welcome the Corvus Consort to the agency, for General Management worldwide.
Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Voices and Saxophones come together in this exciting collaboration, led by Corvus Consort Director Freddie Crowley. Inspired originally by the Ferio Saxophone Quartet's 'Revive' CD, Crowley saw the potential to extend the concept into Baroque vocal music. The Coronavirus lockdown provided…
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Renaissance Symbolism: Music and Astronomy
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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
Programme created and first performed for the Kings Lynn Festival 2019 for the festival theme of 'Music and Astronomy'.
| Anon. - Ave maris stella (plainchant) |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria - Ave maris stella |
| Orlande de Lassus - Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selection) |
| Reading or instrumental item |
| Orlande de Lassus - Exsultet caelum mare |
| Orlande de Lassus - Aurora lucis rutilat |
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh' darein (chorale) |
| James MacMillan - Ave maris stella |
| Reading or instrumental item |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Viri Galilaei |
| William Byrd - Viri Galilaei |
| Anon. - Viri Galilaei (plainchant) |
Baroque music for choir and saxophones
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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble) and Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Programme to include:
Programme to include:
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach - Zion hört die Wächter singen, from Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 |
| Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria (1st movement) |
| Henry Purcell - Come, ye sons of art |