Ensemble Gombert: Christmas to Candlemas
2014-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Xavier College Chapel, Kew, Australia
Ensemble Gombert presents Christmas to Candlemas: A Jacobean celebration with viols and organ
With guest artists: Consort Eclectus
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Program

William Byrd
This day Christ was born
O God that guides the cheerful sun

Orlando Gibbons
This is the record of John
See, see the Word is incarnate

John Bull
Almighty God, who by the leading of a star

Thomas Weelkes
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Thomas Tomkins
Behold, I bring you glad tidings

Performance of anthems with viols has been on our wish list for some years. Now that it is to become a reality it is impossible not to anticipate our Christmas to Candlemas season a bit in order to include that favourite Advent anthem, Gibbons’ This is the record of John. For that matter the other Gibbons piece, See, see the Word is incarnate also transcends the temporal limits, subsequently taking us through Passion, Resurrection and Ascension, but it begins with the Incarnation.
This is truly a rare opportunity to hear many of these works.
