Cantate Choir - Tudor Voices

Cantate Choir

Tudor Voices - Music from "The Golden Age" of English Music

This year marks 400 years since the death of two of the most noted figures of English choral music – one saint, one sinner. William Byrd was called the “father of British music” in his day, and a lifelong Catholic (to his great danger); while Thomas Weelkes, was ‘noted and famed for being a common drunkard and notorious swearer and blasphemer’.

Out of one of the most violent periods of religious and political history in England came some of the most sumptuous and divine music ever written. This concert, as well as paying tribute to these two masters, also features some of the sacred and secular highlights of this era, including works by Gibbons (This is the record of John), Tomkins (When David heard) and Dowland (Come again, sweet love doth now invite), as well as a setting of Greensleeves (attributed to Henry VIII).

Featuring Works by:

• Wiliam Byrd
• Richar Dering
• John Dowland
• Richard Farrant
• Orlando Gibbons
• William Mundi
• Robert Parsons
• Peter Philips
• Thomas Tallis
• Thomas Tomkins
• Thomas Weelkes

The Cantate Choir
Conductor and organist: Robin Walker

7:30pm, Saturday 13th May 2023
Church of St John the Baptist, Sevenoaks

Refreshments will be served in the church hall after the concert.

Tickets are available from Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, and online
at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk. 

Registered charity number 1105441