Tour of Britain: 4 - 19 September 1988

Tour of Britain

4 - 19 September 1988

"One of the finest concerts I have heard by any choir" -- Early Music News, London
"This mixed choir of sixteen voices relies on the same straight, pure sound and draws on the same tradition of discipline and accuracy as The Clerkes of Oxenford or The Tallis Scholars ... They brought an appealing freshness of sound and, under Ravens' telling direction, a directness of approach that could not fail to bring out some of the beauties of the 16th century English polyphony to which they are clearly so dedicated ... [In works by Tallis] the choir was at its best, achieving a well-balanced, finely-tuned blend and an appropriately contemplative but never insipid tone ... here everything fell perfectly into place" -- The Independent, London

Download The Independent's review of the St John's Smith Square performance (JPEG image, 115 Kb)
Download poster for Bolton Abbey performance (JPEG image, 443 Kb)
Download programme notes for these performances (Microsoft Word document, 34 Kb)

Tour Schedule

4pm, Sunday 4 September 1988: Bolton Abbey
8pm, Sunday 4: Leeds Parish Church
5.30pm, Monday 5: Ripon Cathedral - Evensong (download music list, JPEG image, 66 Kb)
1pm, Tuesday 6: Leeds Town Hall
8pm, Thursday 8: St Mary's Church, Burley-in-Wharfedale
7.30pm, Friday 9: Bradford Cathedral
7.30pm, Saturday 10: Holy Trinity Church, Ripon
7.30pm, Sunday 11: Countess of Huntingdon's Hall, Worcester
7.30pm, Monday 12: Christ Church, Bristol
7.30pm, Tuesday 13: St Cuthbert's Church, Wells
7.30pm, Thursday 15: Malvern Priory
5pm, Friday 16: Tewkesbury Abbey - Evensong
2pm, Saturday 17: Montacute House, Somerset
7.30pm, Saturday 17: Sherborne Abbey
7.30pm, Monday 19: St John's Smith Square, London

The Tudor Consort on tour in Britain during 1988
under Simon Ravens (front row, far right)

Tour Programme

Suscipe Quaeso Domine: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
In Manus Tuas: Thomas Tallis
Candidi Facti Sunt: Thomas Tallis

O Nata Lux de Lumine: Thomas Tallis
Qui Fundasti Terram: Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder 1543-1588

Emendemus in Melius: William Byrd 1540?-1623
Laetentur Coeli: William Byrd

Peccantem me Quotidie: Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder
Ad Dominum cum Tribularer: Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder

Interval

Lamentatio Henrici Noell: John Dowland 1563-1625

i. O Lord turn not away thy face
ii. Lord in thy wrath
iii. O Lord consider my distress
iv. O Lord of whom I do depend
v. Where righteousness doth say
vi. Lord to thee I make my moan
vii. Lord hear my prayer

An heart that's broken: John Dowland
Look down O Lord: William Byrd

Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Thomas Tallis

i. Man blest no doubt
ii. Let God arise in majesty
iii. Why fum'th in sight
iv. O come in one to praise the Lord
v. E'en like the hunted hind
vi. Expend O Lord my plaint of word
vii. Why brag'st in malice high
viii. God grant we grace

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