Directed by David Allinson David Allinson writes: This year the early music world has been celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth. An astonishingly productive composer, he wrote over a hundred settings of the Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, etc.), many of which remain unheard and unrecorded today. For this workshop, we will explore Palestrina’s supreme […]

A European Advent Alison Kinder will take us on a musical tour of western Europe. Come and explore some glorious – but less familiar – music appropriate to the approaching Advent season. Subject to the forces available (especially tenors!), the music will include: Ecce Dominus Veniet a8 (Praetorius); O Lieber Herre Gott a7 (Schutz), Spiritus […]