Stile Antico

Friday, April 13, 2012 8:00pm

Cathedral Concerts presents another first to St. Louis audiences, Stile Antico in their St. Louis debut performance.

STILE ANTICO is an ensemble of young British singers, now established as one of the most original and exciting new voices in its field. Prizewinners at the 2005 Early Music Network International Young Artists’ Competition, the group is much in demand in concert, performing regularly throughout Europe and North America. Their recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label have enjoyed great success, receiving the Diapason d’or de l’année and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik; their debut, Music for Compline, was nominated for a GRAMMY Award. The group’s third recording, Song of Songs, won the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music and reached the top of the US Classical Chart and their fourth recording Media Vita, featuring of the music of John Sheppard and released early in 2010, was hailed by The Observer as ‘their best yet’. Stile Antico’s latest recording “Puer natus est”, released in September 2010, is a disc of “exquisitely performed” Tudor Advent and Christmas music (The Observer).

Program
Treasures of the Renaissance
Masterpieces from the golden age of choral music

Magnificat primi toni Nicolas Gombert

Ego flos campi Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Veni dilecte mi Orlandus Lassus

Laetentur coeli William Byrd
O Sacrum convivium Thomas Tallis
Woefully arrayed John McCabe

Interval

Why fum’th in fight Thomas Tallis
Vigilate William Byrd
The Lord’s Prayer John Sheppard
O praise the Lord Thomas Tomkins
I am the resurrection and the life Orlando Gibbons

Exultate Deo Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Hortus Conclusus Rodrigo de Ceballos
Veni, dilecti mi Sebastián de Vivanco
O magnum mysterium Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tota pulchra es Hieronymus Praetorius