The Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet makes a return to the stage for its second annual live performance that includes the Diapente Guide of Carols. The Christmas traditions and music of Europe and Central America through the Renaissance is the main target.
The live performance takes place November 29 on the atmospheric St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, introduced as a part of the 2024/25 season for Apocryphonia.
Peter Koniers, Diapente’s countertenor, has transcribed the fabric for the Guide of Carols straight from Medieval and Renaissance period manuscripts. The carols, now in trendy notation, are collected right into a e-book of vacation musical preparations that brings the historic music ahead to the current as viable live performance materials.
The Program
The composers embrace lesser and higher identified artists of the interval. Most of the alternatives for the live performance come from newly transcribed Guide of Carols, together with The Salutation Carol, an anonymously penned work taken from a fifteenth Century English manuscript.
Storytelling is a typical thread by the musical alternatives for this yr’s vacation program, together with texts with dialogues like Guillaume Bouziniac’s Noe Pastores Cantate Canticum Novum. Within the carol, the angel Gabriel tells shepherds concerning the beginning of Jesus in a conversational model.
Together with Nameless, the composers of works within the Guide of Carols 2 embrace:
- French composer Guillaume Bouzignac (1587 — 1643) studied on the Cathedral of Narbonne, later turning into choirmaster on the Cathedrals of Angoulême, Bourges, Excursions, and Clermont-Ferrand. His two manuscripts of motets are thought of among the many gems of the Renaissance vocal music.
- German composer and organist Michael Praetorius (1571 — 1621) was also called an necessary music theorist of his time. His works embrace many Protestant hymns, a style wherein he’s credited with creating lots of its types.
- German composer and kapellmeister Johann Eccard (1553 — 1611) was a principal conductor on the Berlin courtroom chapel. Eccard’s wrote choral and vocal works completely, together with songs, cantatas and chorales, each sacred and secular. His is understood for his mastery of polyphonic construction; his works included 4, 5, even eight or 9 completely different voice.
- Portuguese-Mexican composer and organist Gaspar Fernandes (1566 — 1629) was a singer and instrumentalist by his early 20s. He grew to become organist, and later maestro, of the Cathedral of Guatemala (right now in Antigua), the place he remained for seven yr. He later went to Puebla, Mexico, the place he was maestro de capilla (chapel grasp) till his dying in 1629. His piece Tleycantimo Chocquiliya was successful final yr, and makes a return in 2024, together with two different piece drawn from a set of Fernandes’ music from the Cathedral of Oaxaca: A Belén me llego, tío and ¿A do vas, Carillo, di?
- Leonhard Päminger (1495 — 1567) was a Lutheran theologian and poet in addition to a composer, born in Aschbach, higher Austria, the place his father was mayor. He labored largely in Bavaria, in Germany, and composed each inside and outdoors the Lutheran church. A big physique of his works survive right now, together with greater than 700 compositions. They’ll be performing his Omnis mundus iocundetur, a chunk the place two carols and a chorale are sung in intricate counterpoint.
From a live performance earlier this yr:
The Performers
About Apocryphonia
Apocryphonia was based in 2022 by Alexander Cappellazzo, the title derived from the Greek phrases apokyrphos, or that which is obscure, and phōnḗ, or sound. Apocryphus was a time period used to indicate texts that had been each sacred and meant to be secret, or exterior the widespread understanding.
As an ensemble, they give the impression of being to find and produce to gentle music you’ve (most likely) by no means heard earlier than, embrace composers obscured by historical past, and the forgotten and missed works of extra well-known artists.
The Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet was additionally based in 2022 with a mandate of specialization within the uncommon and distinctive vocal works of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet
The singers are:
- Jane Fingler, soprano
- Peter Koniers, countertenor
- Jonathan Stuchbery, tenor, guitar & lute
- Alexander Cappellazzo, tenor
- Martin Gomes, bass
Developing after The Diapente Guide of Carols 2 of their 2024-25 season: Faignient and Buddies: The Music of Antwerp 1568-1598; particulars right here.
- Discover tickets and extra particulars about The Diapente Guide of Carols 2 live performance on November 29 [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.