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The Marian Consort

Name: The Marian Consort
Start: 2020-12-05T16:30:00+00:00
End: 2020-12-05T16:30:00+00:00
Location: National Centre for Early Music

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Sat Dec 5 @ 4.30 pm

Directed by Rory McCleery

Discover the mystery of Christmas threaded through this 60-minute sequence for voices, framed by Palestrina’s majestic double-choir mass and Magnificat. Motets that once rang through the Sistine Chapel. At the heart of the programme are Palestrina’s exquisite O magnum mysterium and a beautiful setting of the Inviolata, written by the Afro-Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano in homage to his predecessor Josquin Des Prez.