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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Hundon, All Saints

This is a large, Perpendicular building, finished not long before the Reformation. No doubt it enjoyed all the ups and downs of the 17th Century religious wars, the long 18th Century sleep of the Church of England, and the vibrancy and energy of the 19th Century revival. But it is hard to tell now, because the church was completely destroyed by fire one night in February 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the Great War. 

The interior successfully retains a sense of the past, and heavens be praised the windows are all full of clear glass. There is plenty of open space of course, but intriguing little details - a wheatsheaf salvaged from an 18th Century memorial, the south chancel aisle panelled with dark wood from the vicarage, surviving roof timbers forming a cross in the south aisle.

A wide, light, simple interior, then, ideally suited for modern Anglican spirituality.

(With thanks to Simon Knott - http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hundon.htm)


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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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