Music for the richest man in the world
James Gilchrist (tenor) and the Linarol Consort
CD launch tour
16th Century German Love Songs
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A concert of enchanting sixteenth-century song performed by one it its leading exponents and authentically accompanied on copies of the earliest surviving viol.
Love in all is various forms (unrequited, romantic and lascivious mischief) is explored in the songs by leading musical figures working in Maximilian’s court: Heinrich Isaac, Paul Hofhaimer and Ludwig Senfl, one of the most prolific composers of German song and secular music of the period.
As well as to Tunbridge Wells, the Linarol Consort are bringing this programme to Oxford and Cambridge as part of a tour to launch their new recording of the music. You can read more about it in this Oxford Medieval Studies article.
Tenor James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time music career in 1996. His extensive concert repertoire has seen him perform in major concert halls throughout the world with renowned conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Harry Bicket, Masaaki Suzuki and Richard Hickox.
A master of English music, he has performed Britten’s Church Parables in St Petersburg, in London and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nocturne with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. Recent highlights have included singing the role of Rev. Adams in Britten’s Peter Grimes in Deborah Warner’s award-winning production at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and for his company debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as with Bergen Philharmonic and Edward Gardner with performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Festival Hall, Grieghallen and Den Norske Opera.
