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Exeter Cathedral
1 The Cloisters
Exeter
Devon
EX1 1HS
England
Programme
Girolamo Fantini – Sonata a due clarini
Francisco Guerrero – Maria Magdalena et altera Maria
Giovanni Felice Sances – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
Vinzenz Fux – Canzon pro tabula a 10
~ Interval ~
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Requiem a 15 in A major
Performers
JanJoost van Elburg – Music Director
Amy Haworth – soprano
Caroline Trevor – contralto
Ingeborg Brocheler – contralto
Mark Dobell – tenor
Mark Bonney – tenor
Simon Whiteley – Bass
Thomas Flint – Bass
Charlotte Ashley – soprano
Blackdowns Early Music Projects
Monteverdi String Band
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Programme Note
Biber’s career as a virtuoso violinist was accompanied by a magnificent output of large choral works for Salzburg Cathedral. With all the ceremonial instrumentation available to him, this Requiem written for the funeral of Biber’s long term employer Archbishop Maximillian Gandolf shows Biber at his best. The music is brimming with rhythmic vitality, harmonic interest and written in A major, unusual for the occasion.
Giovanni Sances worked most of his adult life in Vienna for the rich Habsburg Court and was frequently commissioned to write large works for specific occasions. The Missa S. Mariae Magdalenae was likely to have been used at the wedding, on her nameday, of Eleonore Magdalena Theresia, Emperor Leopold I’s daughter. A playful work for double choir, this Mass is full of joy. The first transcription of this work was completed in 2004 for the BEMP organisers, who are thrilled to be performing it for the first time in the SW in suitable surroundings!
