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A plague on both your houses

Hannah French is joined by conductor Jeremy Summerly to explore music associated with the plague - composers who succumbed to the disease and pieces that responded to great loss.

Hannah French is joined by conductor Jeremy Summerly to explore music associated with the plague - pieces that responded to great suffering and loss, and composers who succumbed to outbreaks of pestilence, including Robert White, Francisco Guerrero, Jacob Obrecht and Alessandro Grandi.

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Music Played

  • Robert White

    Lamentations (excerpt)

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • Naxos.

  • Walter Lambe

    Stella caeli

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Star of Heaven - The Eton Choirbook Legacy.
    • CORO.
    • 7.

  • Anonymous

    Stella coeli extirpavit

    Choir: Arakaendar Bolivia Choir. Ensemble: Florilegium. Director: Ashley Solomon.
    • Bolivian Baroque, Vol. 2: Music from the Missions.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.

  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Missa de la batalla escoutez (Gloria)

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • Guerrero: Missa De la batalla escoutez & Other Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Jacob Obrecht

    Missa Caput (Kyrie)

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • OBRECHT: Missa Caput / Salve Regina.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Alessandro Grandi

    O dulce nomen Jesu

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Praha. Director: Pavel Klikar.
    • Supraphon.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Dixit Dominus

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Singer: David Thomas. Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • EMI.

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  • Sunday17:00
    BBC Radio 3

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