Concerts

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Making the motet: from the 12th to the 21st century

Thursday 12th March 2026: St Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh
Friday 13th March 2026: University of Glasgow Chapel
Friday 20th March 2026: St George’s Church, Newcastle

Time: 19:30
Programme: Making the Motet
Tickets: Eventbrite

Programme:

Gloriosus V. Dextera tua domina (chant)
Chanson ferai (Anon.)
Amors est trop fiers chastelains (Anon.)
Hier matin chevauchoie / DOMINE (Anon.)
Gloria sit soli deo (Anon.)
Hyer matin a l’enjornee / DOMINO (Anon.)
Benedicamus Domino / Alpha bovi et leoni (Anon.)
Apta caro / Flos virginum / Alma redemptoris (Vitry?)
Thomas gemma / Thomas cesus (Anon.)
Inviolata genitrix / Felix virgo / AD TE SUSPIRAMUS (Machaut)
Salve scema / Salve salus / CANTANT CELI (Dunstaple)
Virgo rosa (Binchois)
Ave Maria mater dei (Cornysh)
Christe fili dei (Josquin)
Gloriosi principes terrae (Palestrina)
I give you a new commandment (Sheppard)
Song 46 (Gibbons)
Tristis est anima mea (Martini)
Beati mortui (Mendelssohn)
Quatre petites prières IV: ‘O mes très chers frères’ (Poulenc)
Bauernrevolution (Eisler; from Zwei Männerchöre, Op. 14)
Awed by the beauty (Tavener)

Past concerts

A Medieval & Modern Late-Night Encounter (25th July, 2025)

Location: Govan Old Church, Glasgow
Time: 21:30
Programme: Music for Notre Dame
Tickets: Glasgow Barons

Programme:

Iustorum anime (chant)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie (Machaut)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Gloria
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise II: ‘Tout puissant’ (Poulenc)
Gradual: Audi filia (chant)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
Quatre petites prières I: ‘Salut, Dame Sainte’
Messe de Nostre Dame: Sanctus
Quatre petites prières III: ‘Seigneur, je vous en prie’
Messe de Nostre Dame: Agnus
Quatre petites prières IV: ‘O mes très chers frères’
Sint lumbi (13th-century organum)
Apta caro / Flos virginum / Alma redemptoris (Vitry?)
Exsultent iusti (chant)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est

Music for Notre Dame: France in the 14th century and beyond (9 May, 2025)

Location: St Illtud’s Church, Llantwit Major
Time: 19:30
Programme: Music for Notre Dame
Tickets: Early Voices Wales

Programme:

Antiphona et introitum: Gaudeamus (chant)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie (Machaut)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Gloria
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise II: ‘Tout puissant’ (Poulenc)
Gradual: Audi filia (chant)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
Quatre petites prières I: ‘Salut, Dame Sainte’
Messe de Nostre Dame: Sanctus
Quatre petites prières III: ‘Seigneur, je vous en prie’
Messe de Nostre Dame: Agnus
Quatre petites prières IV: ‘O mes très chers frères’
Ave maris stella (chant arr. J. Stutter)
Apta caro / Flos virginum / Alma redemptoris (Vitry?)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est

To Your Rude Health! (12–17th August, 2024)

Location: Greenside Venues (Ivy Studio)
Time: 22:10
Programme: To Your Rude Health!
Tickets: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Programme:

A catch that is merry and gay (William Hayes)
Come hither Tom (William Cranford)
My man John (John Eccles)
Tom the Tailor (Henry Hall)
When Celia was learning on the spinet (John Isham)
As Roger last night (Purcell)
Once, twice, thrice (Purcell)
Come let us drink (Purcell)
The cure of love (William Bartholomew)
Jack thou’rt a toper (Purcell)
In my lady’s favour (Anon.)
If all be true (Purcell)
A rough country priest (John King)
On a puritan drunk (Hayes)
Kyrie eleison (Hayes)
I gave her cakes (Purcell)
Prithee ben’t so sad and ser’ous (Purcell)

Ancient voices: iuchair ensemble (26th July, 2024)

Location: Govan Old Church, Glasgow
Time: 22:00
Programme: Sancte Anne matris Marie
Tickets: Glasgow Barons

Programme:

Beata viscera (13th-century conductus)
Deus in adiutorium (chant)
Antiphona: Omnis sanctorum concio (chant)
Psalm: Dixit dominus (chant)
Psalm: Laudate pueri dominum (chant)
Capitulum: Mulierum fortem (chant)
Responsorium: Beata virgo (chant)
Hymnus: Ave mater Anna (chant arr. J. Stutter)
Elegit in deus (organum pastiche J. Stutter)
Antiphona et magnificat: Anna florem (chant)
Orationes (chant)
Dum sigillum (13th-century conductus)

Missa spiritus almus (1st November, 2023)

Location: Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews
Time: 13:00
Programme: Missa Spiritus Almus
Tickets: University of St Andrews

Programme:

O florens rosa (Johannes Touront)
Introit: Gaudens gaudebo (chant)
Missa spiritus almus: Kyrie (Petrus de Domarto)
Gradual: Benedicta es tu (chant)
Ave regina celorum (Dufay)
Missa spiritus almus: Gloria
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es (chant)
Missa spiritus almus: Credo
Ave maris stella (Leonel Power)
Missa spiritus almus: Sanctus
Communio: Gloriosa dicta sunt de te (chant)
Missa spiritus almus: Agnus dei

Missa spiritus almus (20th July, 2023)

Location: Govan Old Church, Glasgow
Time: 18:00
Programme: Missa Spiritus Almus
Tickets: Eventbrite

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Music for Nostre Dame: Machaut and Poulenc (16th June, 2023)

Location: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Time: 19:30
Programme: Music for Notre Dame
Tickets: Eventbrite

Programme:

Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie (Machaut)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Gloria
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise II: ‘Tout puissant’ (Poulenc)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
Quatre petites prières I: ‘Salut, Dame Sainte’
Audi filia (chant)
Messe de Nostre Dame: Sanctus
Quatre petites prières III: ‘Seigneur, je vous en prie’
Messe de Nostre Dame: Agnus
Quatre petites prières IV: ‘O mes très chers frères’
Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est

To Your Rude Health! (8th June, 2023)

Location: Dram! Glasgow
Time: 18:00
Programme: To Your Rude Health!
Tickets: WestFest

Programme:

A catch that is merry and gay (William Hayes)
If all be true (Purcell)
On a Puritan drunk (Hayes)
Catch of catches (J. B. Marella)
Jack thou’rt a toper (Purcell)
Kyrie eleison (Hayes)
Once, twice, thrice (Purcell)
I cannot sing this catch (Henry Harington)
O Absalom my son (Charles King)
My man John (John Eccles)
Of all the instruments (Purcell)
As Roger last night (Purcell)
Come hither Tom (Anon.)
A rough country priest (John King)
The silver swan (Anon.)
Celia learning on the spinet (John Isham)
Under this stone lies Gabriel John (Purcell)
In my lady’s favour (Anon.)
Come let us drink (Purcell)
Tom the tailor (Purcell)
Prithee ben’t so sad and ser’ous (Purcell)
I gave her cakes (Purcell)

Missa spiritus almus (26th May, 2023)

Location: St Paul’s Cathedral, Dundee
Time: 13:00
Programme: Missa Spiritus Almus

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Missa spiritus almus (29th October, 2022)

Location: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Time: 19:30
Programme: Missa Spiritus Almus

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Passio (13th April, 2022)

Location: Paisley Abbey
Time: 19:30
Programme: Passio

Programme:

Plorans plorabit (Byrd)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (I) (Byrd)
In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (II)
Ne irascaris domine — civitas sancti tui (Byrd)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (III)

Passio (2 and 9 April, 2022)

Location: Old St Paul’s Church, Edinburgh; University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Time: 19:30
Programme: Passio
Tickets: Eventbrite

Programme:

Nos autem (chant)
Plorans plorabit (Byrd)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (I) (Byrd)
Libera me domine (Parsons)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (II)
In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (III)
I give you a new commandment (Sheppard)
Ne irascaris domine — civitas sancti tui (Byrd)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (IV)
Dic regi (Byrd)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (V)
O sacrum convivium (Tallis)
Passio domini nostri iesu christi (VI)

To Your Rude Health! (15th October, 2021)

Location: Online
Time: 17:15
Programme: To Your Rude Health!

Perotin: The Scottish Source (8th September, 2019)

Location: St Oswald’s Church, Bolton Castle, Yorkshire
Time: 13:00
Programme: Perotin: The Scottish Source

Programme:

Viderunt omnes (Perotin?)
Alleluya optimam partem (Perotin?)
Beata viscera (Perotin?)
Dum sigillum (Perotin?)
Alleluya posui adiutorium (Perotin?)
Vir iste (Anon.)
Vir perfecte (Anon.)
Sederunt principes (Perotin?)

Passio (16th April, 2019)

Location: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Time: 19:30
Programme: Passio

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Sacred & Profane: 17th century catches and drinking songs (27th February, 2019)

Location: University of Glasgow Library Special Collections
Time: 17:30
Programme: To Your Rude Health!

Sacred & Profane: 17th century catches and drinking songs (12th December, 2018)

Location: The Drake bar, Glasgow
Time: 19:30
Programme: To Your Rude Health!

Perotin: The Scottish Source (21st April, 28th April, & 2nd May 2018)

Location: St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow; Polwarth Parish Church, Edinburgh; Holy Trinity Church, Stirling
Time: 19:30
Programme: Perotin: The Scottish Source

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