Sunday 22 October, 19.30 at St Martin's Church
Mother, Sister, Daughter
Music and intriguing stories of women across the ages, including newly discovered music, and a new commission by Joanna Marsh.
Date & Time: Sunday 22 October, 19.30
Ticket price: £22 / £18; 12-25s £11 / £9; under-12s free
Venue: St Martin's Church
Mother, Sister, Daughter celebrates women’s spiritual relationships, with music honouring the Blessed Virgin Mary and communities of sisters in early modern Europe, and a new work The Veiled Sisters by Joanna Marsh on a poem by Norfolk poet, Esther Morgan. Its other highlights are motets attributed to Suor Leonora d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia’s daughter, and an Office of St Clare from the convent of Galileo’s daughter, Suor Maria Celeste Galilei.
The ensemble’s recording of this programme was listed by the New York Times as one of the best classical music tracks of 2022. Listen to this incredible sound world on Musica Secreta’s website
Musica Secreta
Laurie Stras director
Claire Williams ensemble director & organ
Yvonne Eddy, Hannah Ely, Elspeth Piggott sopranos
Victoria Couper, Katharine Hawnt, Sarah Anne Champion mezzo-sopranos
Kirsty Whatley harps
Alison Kinder viols
Celestial Sirens
Programme
Anonymous
Verona 761, c.1495 Missa de Beata Virgine
Anonymous
Verona 759, c.1480 Vespers of St Lucy
Antoine Brumel
c.1560–after 1512 Mater patris et filia
Anonymous, attr. Leonora d'Este
1515–1575 Virgo Maria speciosissima
Maistre Jhan
c.1485–1538 Ecce amica mea
- Interval -
Marguerite de Navarre
1492–1549 Avés poinct veu la malheureuse
Martha Baerts
d. 1560 Aen mijn Suster Betken
Anonymous, attr. Juan Anchieta
1462–1523 Mater Christi cooperto capite
Anonymous, attr. Leonora d'Este Vespere autem sabbati
Anonymous
Brussels 27766, c.1560 Second Vespers of St Clare (excerpts)
Joanna Marsh
b. 1970 The Veiled Sisters