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FORTHCOMING LIVE PERFORMANCES BY TONUS PEREGRINUS
Opera Fringe
Saturday 7 June 2008 20:00 Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
The True Story - love and loss in 14th-century France
Guillaume de Machaut: Le Voir Dit
semi-staged performance in mediaeval French and modern English
Sunday 8 June 2008 19:00 Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
Jerusalem - an oratorio
Antony Pitts: Jerusalem-Yerushalayim
more info on Down Cathedral: www.downcathedral.org
Opera Fringe, 2-6 Irish Street, Downpatrick BT30 6BP, Northern Ireland
email: info@operafringe.com tel: +44 28 4461 0747 website: www.operafringe.com
Landshuter Hofmusiktage Festival
Friday 4 July 2008 21:00 St Jodok, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Organum from Notre-Dame - a cathedral-in-progress
Anon.: Vetus abit littera, Pérotin: Beata viscera, plainchant/Léonin/Pérotin: Viderunt omnes
website: www.landshuter-hofmusiktage.com
Verkehrsverein Landshut e. V., Altstadt 315, D-84028 Landshut, Germany
email: tourismus@landshut.de tel: +49 871-922050 fax: +49 871-89275 tickets
TONUS
PEREGRINUS is one of the most exciting young ensembles
in Britain, with major successes in both early music and new music,
including the prestigious Cannes Classical Award for the ensemble's
debut release of Arvo Pärt's Passio
(8.555860) on Naxos, and this year's nomination for the
first-ever BBC Music Magazine Awards. Recent critical acclaim in
the BBC Music Magazine, The Telegraph, and The Gramophone speaks
for itself: "utterly spellbinding", "utterly beguiling",
"captivating excitement", "gloriously sung by this
superb choir", as does the selection first of Passio,
and then of the ensemble's release of Antony
Pitts's Seven
Letters on Hyperion (CDA67507) as Editor's Choices
in The Gramophone. TONUS PEREGRINUS has a history of performing
at unusual occasions, recently asked to sing at a memorial
for Alexander Litvinenko.
In a new series of recordings for Naxos, TONUS
PEREGRINUS has focused on the most important milestones
of early Western music including: the first music in four separate
parts by Pérotin (Sacred
Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral 8.557340), the first-ever
opera, Adam de la Halle's mediaeval musical (Le
Jeu de Robin et de Marion 8.557337), the first complete
polyphonic mass and Passion settings (The
Mass of Tournai 8.555861), motets and mass movements
by the musical godfather of the Renaissance, John Dunstaple (Sweet
Harmony 8.557341), and a brand-new realization of the first
English hymnbook from 1623 - Hymns
and Songs of the Church.
TONUS PEREGRINUS has also made a unique impact on the popular Christmas
market with The
Naxos Book of Carols - commissioned by Klaus Heymann
of Naxos and published both as a CD (8.557330) and as a carol-book
in partnership with Faber Music (ISBN 0-571-52325-0; 0-571-52327-7).
TONUS PEREGRINUS was founded
while director Antony Pitts
was studying under Dr Edward Higginbottom at New College, Oxford,
and early years saw repeated tours abroad in the Low Countries,
as well as twice featuring on the cult CD journal Unknown Public.
The name tonus peregrinus is taken from an ancient plainchant
psalm tone dating back to Jewish liturgical sources linked to the
Passover, and hence the Last Supper. This chant has a different
starting-note in each half, so was called the "wandering tone",
and also gained the nickname of tonus novissimus, the "newest
tone". TONUS PEREGRINUS combines these two characteristics
in a repertoire that ranges far and wide from the end of the Dark
Ages to scores fresh from the printer, and has an interpretative
approach that is both authentic and highly original.
TONUS PEREGRINUS
Joanna Forbes
Rebecca Hickey
Kathryn Knight
Alexander L’Estrange
Richard Eteson
Alexander Hickey
Francis Brett
Nick Flower
Antony Pitts
with:
John Crook
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