Acclaimed choral ensemble Marian Consort pays tribute to flowers and gardens both actual and allegorical, with music from the late Renaissance to the present day.

Vocal ensemble The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music across the centuries.

Vocal ensemble The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music across the centuries.

Vocal ensemble The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music across the centuries.

Vocal ensemble The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music across the centuries.

Vocal ensemble The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music across the centuries.

Vocal ensemble The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music across the centuries.

Join us for an evening of pure vocal brilliance with The Marian Consort, the award-winning British vocal ensemble renowned for their bold, emotionally rich performances spanning music from the 12th century to the present day. 

Programme to include Pater Peccavi - music of Lamentation from Renaissance Portugal - by Palestrina, de Brito, Duarte Lobo, Lusitano, de Magalhae, Cardoso and others.

The Marian Consort presents a programme of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

The programme of works entirely by female creators juxtaposes the timeless music of polymath Hildegard of Bingen with exciting commissions and new arrangements from some of today’s most engaging compositional voices.

The Marian Consort performs a programme interleaving Spanish Renaissance gems by Morales and Victoria with new works by British composers Oliver Tarney and Joy Nkoyo.

Themes of flowers and gardens, both actual and allegorical, run through this programme which travels from Renaissance Spain to the 21st Century.

The radiant voices of The Marian Consort combine with the expert players of leading baroque orchestra Spiritato for a performance of two of Bach’s most exquisite Cantatas and the extraordinary Mass in G major.

The Marian Consort sings both familiar works and rarer gems by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina alongside masterpieces by his Roman predecessors, students and successors, revealing the network of musical and personal connections underlying these astonishing pieces.

William Byrd, arguably the greatest of English Renaissance composers, lived and worked as a Catholic in England at a time when to do so meant constantly courting danger. Despite this, Byrd wrote a huge amount of music for the Catholic liturgy and this programme is woven around his unforgettable 4-part mass.

Themes of flowers and gardens, both actual and allegorical, run through this programme which travels from Renaissance Spain to the 21st Century via the music of Benjamin Britten.