The Canterbury Songs
Join us on a journey to the fairytale Canterbury, to the England of the 16th century. A landscape so breathtaking that it inspired the medieval writer Geoffrey Chaucer around 1400 to write his famous work 'The Canterbury Tales'. Based on Chaucer's epic book, conductor Peter Phillips and the Netherlands Chamber Choir will perform the most beautiful madrigals and motets from that time. A programme interwoven with newly written miniature compositions by the English composer William Knight.
The Canterbury Songs
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Canterbury was the birthplace of some of the greatest English Renaissance composers: Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tallis and John Ward. William Knight, like Ward, is both a composer and a singer. His choral works can be heard in England and the Netherlands and since 2014 he has been a core member of the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Peter Philips is a specialist in Renaissance music and founder of the choir The Tallis Scholars, which excels in this repertoire.
The Canterbury Songs
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