The BREMF Consort singers were admirable in their flawless production of the complex cross rhythms in this work, redolent of echos, which worked well rolling around the high ethereal vaults of St Martins church
The BREMF Consort singers were admirable in their flawless production of the complex cross rhythms in this work, redolent of echos, which worked well rolling around the high ethereal vaults of St Martins church
Brian Butler looks forward to Autumn early music concerts in Brighton
Brian Butler welcomes back live music from Brighton Early Music Festival
Fitting in with this year’s theme of Metamorphosis, this concert showed how Renaissance composers were all too willing to imitate their contemporaries or those of the recent past – often embellishing and developing the original. So in Transformers we were served up an intriguing mix of church and secular music from the late 15th to the late 16th century.
Taking place at St Martins church and finishing with a recent version of Tallis’s 40-part motet, Spem in alium arranged for 11 voices by Mick Swithinbank this looks at being a superb evening my musical discovery
As part of its ongoing mission to take early music to new and unusual places, Brighton Early Music Festival took over the i360 in Brighton early on Sunday morning (Nov. 4).
Music from the 12th to the 16th centuries culminating in the ultimate polyphonic work, Tallis’s 40-part motet Spem in alium this large gathering of voice had some gentle choreography added to explore the roots of polyphony in ancient chant melodies.
