We will be celebrating a series of three candlelit, cantored Masses of Our Lady in Advent – also known as ‘Rorate’ masses – on each Wednesday in Advent. They begin on 4 December at 6.30pm and will be followed by a sherry reception.

This December, The Renaissance Singers mark the season of Advent and herald the coming of Christmas with some of the most arresting and brilliant music written in the decades around 1500.

With a special focus on Mary, mother of Jesus, we sing music from the cathedrals and chapels of the Franco-Flemish flatlands, by composers including Ockeghem, Obrecht, Compère and Mouton — composers too often overshadowed by their contemporary, Josquin.

From the ravishing Nesciens Mater by Mouton, a canonic tour-de-force which casts an intimate portrait of the Virgin nursing the baby Jesus, to the fervent yearning of Obrecht’s titanic Salve Regina, and on to the textural complexity of his Factor orbis, a glorious and rarely-performed 'musical sermon', this is no ordinary Christmas concert.

Join us on a path less travelled as we explore the textures, techniques and emotions of music which will move and delight.