TREMORS OF EARTH
Event Date: 29/04/2022, 07:00 pm
The Song Company presents the latest 'Underground' concert tour
Singing from the manuscript has been a consistent focus of The Song Company's explorations of early vocal music in recent years and it is now the turn of a new generation of singers to learn these long-lost skills.
The Missa Et ecce terre motus stands at one end of Renaissance polyphony in terms of its 12-part harmonic landscape – which is slow-moving and highly-decorated in the individual singers’ melodic lines around the foundational plainchant.
The final pages of the manuscript are lost to the ravages of time, so in their place it seems appropriate to sing a 12-part homage to Brumel’s Mass from the Missa Tempore Paschali by Nicolas Gombert – himself believed to be a pupil of Josquin.
Reverberating in-between the movements of Brumel’s masterpiece are modern works for six to twelve voices by Alice Chance and Antony Pitts on the themes of loss and resurrection.
PROGRAM
Antoine Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus (The ‘Earthquake’ Mass) a 12
Alice ChanceL Aurora Eora
Antony Pitts: Tres Antiphonae Paschae
Alice Chance: Precious Colours
Nicolas Gombert: Missa Tempore Paschali / Agnus Dei a 12
PERFORMERS
The SongCo Apprentices
Sopranos: Elise Morton, Lily Harper, Nicola Chau
Altos: Emma Warburton, Stephanie Macindoe, Cassandra Doyle
Tenors: Alex Gorbatov, Alexander Caldwell, David Lee
Basses: Brendan McRae, Jesse van Proctor, Lincoln Law
Antony Pitts, Artistic Director – Director
with Koen van Stade, Principal Artist – Tenor
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St Andrew's Cathedral, Bathurst Street,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
St Andrew's Cathedral, Bathurst Street,
Sydney New South Wales,2000