Oxford's professional early-music consort Contrapunctus, directed by Owen Rees, a renowned expert in the music of Golden Age Spain, perform some of the most passionately expressive works of the Spanish Renaissance, inspired by themes of love, loss, and lamentation. The programme encompasses Marian, Holy-Week and Requiem repertories by the most famous composers of Golden Age Spain – Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Tomás Luis de Victoria – and their contemporaries.

Programme:

Circumdederunt me (Morales)
Vadam et circuibo (Victoria)
Circumdederunt me (Juan de Avila)
Incipit oratio (Lamentations) (Victoria)
Quomodo sedet sola (Luis de Aranda)
Versa est in luctum (Lobo)

Vidi speciosam (Victoria)
Hortus conclusus (Ceballos)
Tota pulchra es (Guerrero)
Ego flos campi (Guerrero)
Ave virgo sanctisssima (Guerrero)
Surge propera amica mea (Guerrero)

'Seriously, startlingly good' – Gramophone

'Superb singing' – The Observer

'The singers shape each piece lovingly. Impeccable.' – The Sunday Times

This performance runs without interval.