The Auld Alliance: The Marian Consort

The award-winning voices of The Marian Consort present a programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from one of Scotland’s few surviving sixteenth-century manuscripts, alongside the world premiere of a luminous new work by Emily Hazrati, commissioned by the RPS for The Marian Consort through their Composers Programme.

The so-called ‘Dunkeld Music Book’ gives a glimpse of the musical riches being performed in Scotland in the mid-sixteenth century, including motets by Continental composers sourced directly from Paris and Italy, and the beautiful, and more local, anonymous Missa Felix namque.

Programme
Josquin des Prez (c1450-1521) Benedicta es caelorum Regina 7.5
Plainchant Felix namque 3
Anonymous Missa Felix namque, Kyrie & Gloria 5
Pierre Certon (d 1572) Inviolata 9
Emily Hazrati (1998-) New Commission 15
Anonymous Missa Felix namque, Sanctus 11.5
Johannes Lupi (c1506-1539) Salve celeberrima virgo 8.5

This concert is being recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio Classical Live.