Reading the Reformation Forwards: English Sacred Music in the Vernaculars

13th June 2023, 8:30pm

Keble College Chapel, Oxford

Programme:
Prevent us, O Lord – William Byrd (d. 1623)
Domine, Dominus Noster – Thomas Morley (1557–1602)
Latin Evening Service – Thomas Tallis (d. 1585)

Magnificat
Nunc Dimittis

Laboravi in Gemitu – Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623)
O Lord the Maker of All Thing – William Mundy (1529–1591)
O Sacred and Holy Banquet – Thomas Tallis
I Give You a New Commandment – John Sheppard (1515–1558)
O Lord, How Manifold are Thy Works – Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656)
Turn Our Captivity – William Byrd
When David Heard – Thomas Weelkes
Now Doth the City ­– John Amner (1579–1641)
Funeral Sentences – John Merbecke (d. c.1585)

I am the resurrection
I know that my redeemer liveth
We brought nothing into this world
Man that is born of woman
In the midst of life
I heard a voice from heaven

Benedicam Domino – Robert Johnson (1583–1633)