Sion Deserta Est - A Concert by the Luceat Choir

for 2 hours
Clare, St Peter & St Paul
High Street Clare Suffolk, CO10 8NY, United Kingdom

(‘Luceat translates as shine, which is just what this choir does’, Organist’s Review 2021 5*)

In this programme of sixteenth-century polyphony, the up-and-coming Luceat Choir surveys the profound and sublime output of the English Reformation Catholic composers.
This survey is most aptly consolidated in the music of William Byrd, in the year of his 400th anniversary. His music perfectly articulates the turbulence of the period, whilst simultaneously demonstrating a remarkable technical balance of nostalgia and forward looking.
The programme takes in the opportunity to explore his more cosmopolitan connections, notably with Clemens non Papa.

There can be no finer venues to encounter this sublime repertoire than the stunning architecture of Suffolk’s mighty wool churches, themselves possessing many remarkable survivors of Reformation iconoclasm.
We look forward to welcoming you.

Conductor: James Fellows
Organist: Daniel Mathieson

Regina coeli Plainchant
Regina coeli Robert White
‘Gloria’ from Missa Salve Intermata Thomas Tallis
Salve Regina Plainchant
Ave Maria Robert Parsons
Lamentation a5 Robert White
Tristitia et anxietas Clemens non Papa
Tristitia et anxietas William Byrd
Assumpta est maria William Byrd
Alleluia, Assumpta est Maria Plainchant
Ego Flos campi Clemens non Papa
Ne irascaris, Domine-Civitas sancti tui William Byrd

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Cavendish, St Mary the Virgin

The church is in one of the prettiest settings of any in Suffolk with half-timbered, thatched cottages clustered round it. The handsome exterior reflects the great wealth of the Middle Ages with its impressive stair turret on the 14th century tower rising above the battlements.

What's special?

Light pours in through the vast east window and in the nave is a lavish 16th century gilded altarpiece of the crucifixion. The 19th and 20th century glass is high quality and there’s an elaborate tomb for Sir George Colt who died in 1570.
The priest would have had a room in the tower with a window looking on to the high altar. He had a fireplace for which a chimney can still be seen at the top of the tower.

How old is it?

A Saxon church stood on the site, then a Norman church; another church was started in the 14th century and in 1381 Sir John Cavendish built the chancel. The north aisle, nave arcade and clerestory were added in the 15th century and the Victorians had another go in 1862.

Famous connections

The inspirational Sue Ryder set up a charitable foundation at her mother’s house in the village that became home to people with physical and mental disabilities. She married Leonard Cheshire who founded the Cheshire Homes and the couple lived in Cavendish.

Sir John Cavendish was Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in the reign of Richard II and beheaded during the Peasants Revolt  of 1381.


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The Revd Mark Woodrow

The Vicarage
14 High Street
Clare

CO10 8NY
The Revd Mark Woodrow - Rector
01787 277515
Dr Graham Jenkins - Churchwarden
01787 280030

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Sion Deserta Est - A Concert by the Luceat Choir

for 2 hours
Clare, St Peter & St Paul
High Street Clare Suffolk, CO10 8NY, United Kingdom

(‘Luceat translates as shine, which is just what this choir does’, Organist’s Review 2021 5*)

In this programme of sixteenth-century polyphony, the up-and-coming Luceat Choir surveys the profound and sublime output of the English Reformation Catholic composers.
This survey is most aptly consolidated in the music of William Byrd, in the year of his 400th anniversary. His music perfectly articulates the turbulence of the period, whilst simultaneously demonstrating a remarkable technical balance of nostalgia and forward looking.
The programme takes in the opportunity to explore his more cosmopolitan connections, notably with Clemens non Papa.

There can be no finer venues to encounter this sublime repertoire than the stunning architecture of Suffolk’s mighty wool churches, themselves possessing many remarkable survivors of Reformation iconoclasm.
We look forward to welcoming you.

Conductor: James Fellows
Organist: Daniel Mathieson

Regina coeli Plainchant
Regina coeli Robert White
‘Gloria’ from Missa Salve Intermata Thomas Tallis
Salve Regina Plainchant
Ave Maria Robert Parsons
Lamentation a5 Robert White
Tristitia et anxietas Clemens non Papa
Tristitia et anxietas William Byrd
Assumpta est maria William Byrd
Alleluia, Assumpta est Maria Plainchant
Ego Flos campi Clemens non Papa
Ne irascaris, Domine-Civitas sancti tui William Byrd

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