TALLIS SCHOLARS
Dream Visions from the Spanish High Renaissance
Friday 10/17/08 , 8 pm
Duke Chapel
$28 • $5
Immersed in the haunting idiom of the Renaissance, the
Tallis Scholars have been perfecting their grasp of that era’s profound musical tradition for more than thirty years. Scheduled to coincide with the groundbreaking exhibition of Spanish art at the Nasher Museum, the Tallis performance at Duke explores the highest musical achievements of an epoch marked by virtuosity.
A program of compositions by the three masters of the Spanish Siglo de Oro, or Golden Age, explores the full spectrum of sixteenth-century sacred music on the Iberian Peninsula. The first half features an entire Alonso Lobo mass, based on a motet by Francisco Guerrero. The second features rarely performed “Lamentations” by Tomas Luis de Victoria, which the Tallis Scholars will pair with two masterworks by Guerrero himself. The dreamlike sounds of these Spanish visionaries – delicate, ethereal, steeped in belief – will resound through the Duke Chapel, imbuing its gothic alcoves with a living energy.
Says the Chicago Sun Times: “After seeing the Tallis Scholars, the Renaissance doesn’t seem remote at all.”
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