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When was Vaughan Williams’s
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis first performed?
When Vaughan Williams conducted the first performance of his
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis for strings in Gloucester Cathedral, at the Three Choirs Festival in September 1910, he unveiled a masterpiece that was to renew an entire musical tradition. Compiling a new edition of the English Hymnal, he had been impressed by the sombre splendour of a Phrygian-mode tune contributed by Tallis to the 1567 Psalter for Matthew Parker, the first post-Reformation Archbishop of Canterbury. Vaughan Williams also knew the Baroque concerto grosso, with its contrasted solo and collective string groups. Based on Tallis’s magnificent theme, the
Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled
Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s
Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s
Sibylline Prophecies
2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents
Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising
Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140,
Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139,
Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and
Nachtlied Op. 108. View here.
2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s