Photo, BBC/Chris Christodoulou
The Gesualdo Six and Colin Currie Group perform choral music by Hildegard of Bingen, Machaut, Josquin and Pérotin, culminating in Steve Reich’s Tehillim.
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame – Kyrie
Pérotin: Beata viscera
Johannes Ockeghem: Motet ‘Intemerata Dei mater’
Hildegard von Bingen: Symphony of the Harmony of Heavenly Revelations – O orzchis Ecclesia
John Dunstable: Veni sancte spiritus/Veni creator spiritus
Trad. arr.Owain Park: Phos hilaron (‘Hail, gladdening light’)
Josquin des Prez: O virgo prudentissima
Steve Reich: Tehillim
The Gesualdo Six
Owain Park (director)
Colin Currie Group
Colin Currie (conductor)
“Vivid percussion-and-voice rhythms of the 20th century contrast with the choral consolation of the ancient. The Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie Group come together for a Late-Night Prom that combines the Christian meditations of the Renaissance – choral works by composers including Hildegard of Bingen, Machaut, Josquin and Pérotin – with Steve Reich’s take on traditional Hebrew Psalms in his ecstatic, deeply moving Tehillim.”