The Stondon Singers held a special concert at St Peter and St Paul Church, Stondon Massey last night (Tuesday 4 July) to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd (c1540-1623) in the parish where he lived. The calendar seemed coincidentally arranged because the singers, formed in 1968 to sing the great composer's work, always have the first Tuesday in July for the Anniversary Concert.
Hilary Punnett is now their conductor having now led for a season, and this was her first at Stondon Massey.
The programme, entitled 'Patronage and Persecution' considered the theme of royal patronage throughout the ages as well as pieces which reflected the persecution Byrd faced as a recusant Catholic.
The pieces performed were:
Byrd: Vigilate
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): Miserere nostri
Judith Weir (b. 1954): Love bade me welcome
Andrew Balfour (b. 1967): Ambe
Byrd: In winter cold (prima pars), and Whereat an ant (secunda pars)
Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625): O clap your hands together
interval
Byrd: Sing Joyfully
J.F. Woolley: Rest
Byrd: Miserere mei
Andrew Balfour: Vision Chant
Robert Carver (1485-1570): Missa dum sacrum mysterium - Sanctus
Robert Parsons (1535-1572): Ave Maria
Byrd: Haec dies
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