Supersize Polyphony 3 - Venetian Blinders!

Renowned choir and period instrument ensemble, Armonico Consort, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a brand new programme of supersized Baroque and Renaissance choral masterpieces, performed in immersive ‘surround sound’ with the audience in the centre.Supersize Polyphony is Armonico's hugely successful concert format that envelops the audience in a 'surround sound' of voices singing up to 40 individual parts. Venetian Blinders features music by Venetian master Claudio Monteverdi (including extracts from the Vespers) and explores Venice’s magnetic influence on European composers of the day with a rarely-heard work by Catalan Francisco Valls (Missa Scala Aretina a 16) as well as Thomas Tallis’s spectacular Spem in Alium.Playing on instruments of the period, Armonico Consort is joined by The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble and by local special guest choirs.Programme:
Monteverdi: Lauda Jerusalem; Ave Maris Stella (from Vespers 1610)
Monteverdi: Beatus Vir
Valls: Missa Scala Aretina a 16
David Buckley: world premiere & Lamentations
Tallis: Spem in Alium