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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Chromatic Renaissance

Chromatic Renaissance

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Celebrated vocal group EXAUDI perform expressive music from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, vocal group EXAUDI perform some of the Renaissance's most extreme and expressive music, interspersed with music by their director, James Weeks.

In a programme they've called Chromatic Renaissance, leading vocal ensemble EXAUDI present a feast of expressive music from 16th- and 17th-century Italy interspersed with music by living composers who have gone beyond chromaticism to microtonality. But they begin with Franco-Flemish composer Orlando de Lassus whose Prophetiae Sibyllarum is one of most famous and celebrated examples of extreme Renaissance chromaticism.

Presented live from Wigmore Hall by Martin Handley.

Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selection)
Nicolà Vicentino: Musica prisca caput; Soave e dolce ardore
Elisabet Dijkstra: here, now (world premiere)			
Sylvia Lim: paper wings				
Luzzasco Luzzaschi: O voi che sospirate
Luca Marenzio: Quivi sospiri
Christopher Fox: senso commune 
Carlo Gesualdo: Itene, o miei sospiri; Deh, come invan sospiro; Asciugate i begli occhi; Languisce al fin				

EXAUDI
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Lucy Goddard (mezzo)
Tom Williams (countertenor)
David de Winter, Stephen Jeffes (tenor)
Jimmy Holliday (bass)
James Weeks (director)

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