Reid Chamber Concert

Date: 
Tuesday, February 25, 1997
Time: 
1.10 pm
Season/No: 
1996-1997

First Nocturn from Matins for Maundy Thursday
(polyphony by Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1560-1613)):

 

Participant(s): 

Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers
Noel O'Regan - director

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Responsories for Holy Thursday

1st Lesson: Incipit Lamentatio ... Plainchant
1st Responsory: In monte Oliveti ... Don Carlo Gesualdo

2nd Lesson: Et egressus ... Plainchant
2nd Responsory: Tristis est anima mea ... Gesualdo

3rd Lesson: Jod. Manum suam ... Plainchant
3rd Responsory: Ecce, vidimus eum ... Gesualdo 

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Assumpta est Maria ... Gesualdo/Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Prayer of St Francis of Assisi ... Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)

Quam multi, Domine ... David Peebles (c.1510-1579)

Ave Maria ... Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Exsultate Deo ... Giovanni P. da Palestrina (1525/5-1594)

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Performance Type:

Programme: 
4-page salmon A4 stapled
Programme Notes: 

Programme notes, texts and translations by Noel O'Regan.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Admission free
[Reid] Professor: 
Printer(s): 
Faculty of Music
Notes: 

There is an opportunity to compare the acoustics of two very different buildings this week, when today's concert is repeated tomorrow (Wednesday 26 February) in the Swann Building at King's Buildings.  
A few crude over-simplifications may help to focus your mind:  A reverberant ('warm') acoustic makes it easier to produce a good sound and also to hear what the other performers are doing.
For the listener, a non-reverberant hall delivers a clean sound in which subtle nuances can be discerned, but for ensemble music there is merit in a reasonable proportion of reflected sound, as implied by terms such as 'atmosphere' and 'presence'.
Going further, in a very reverberant hall clarity of speech and instrumental sound is reduced but a whole new character is given to performance.
By any standard, the McEwan is extremely reverberant.  The lecture theatre in the new Swann building is noteworthy in delivering clean sound to the audience while providing the performers with an accepable degree of warmth.   (Dr Raymond Parks)

Forthcoming concerts listed at the end of the printed programme.