Chamber Choir Ireland

Paul Hillier transports us to Renaissance Venice in his final performances as Artistic Director ofChamberChoirIreland. After sixteen years at the helm ofChamberChoirIreland, Paul Hillier marks his final performances with an exquisite programme of sacred choral music from Renaissance Venice. The programme opens with Nicolas Gomberts intricate and optimistic motet, In illo tempore, meaning at that time, published in Venice in 1539. Over sixty years later, Claudio Monteverdi took inspiration from Gombert in his Missa in illo tempore, drawing from ten different themes extracted from the original motet. Weaving together the work of two crucial transitional figures in the shift from Renaissance to Baroque, each section of Monteverdis six-part mass is followed by a motet by Giovani Gabrieli, from the joyful Plaudite omnis terra to the serenity of O magnum mysterium.