Performance on 3 - Aldeburgh Festival 2010 - Huelgas Ensemble

Presented by Petroc Trelawny A concert of choral gems from the Huelgas Ensemble - a vocal consort specialising in medieval and Renaissance repertoire who exlore all the highways and byways of the repertoire. This programme from the Aldeburgh Festival blends the sensual sonorities of Lassus and his Franco-Flemish contemporaries with a real rarity - one of only two existing works by a forgotten Englishman, Thomas Ashewell. Ashewell was active in the early 16th century, first at Lincoln then at Durham Cathedral. This is astonishing music, its chromatic harmonies and sophisticated invention both peculiarly English in its isolation, yet far in advance of his Continental contemporaries. Thomas Ashewell: Missa Ave Maria Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday Gombert: Je prens congie Clemens non Papa: Qui Consolabatur; Two Chansons Huelgas Ensemble director Paul van Nevel Followed by Aldeburgh Revisited - performances by musicians with a close association with Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival. Britten: A birthday Hansel Peter Pears (tenor) Osian Ellis (harp) DECCA 425 716 2 Tr. 6 Shostakovich: Cello sonata in D minor, Op.40 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Benjamin Britten (piano) BBC Legends BBCL 4263 2 Tr.7-10 (Recorded at Aldeburgh Parish Church, 14 June 1964) Schubert: Auf der Donau (D.553); Prometheus (D.674); Fischerweise (D.881) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (tenor) Benjamin Britten (piano) BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4255 2 Tr. 16, 19 & 22