24.01.2014
‘Schola Peregrina’ to Sing Compline in Three Dublin Churches This Weekend
A ‘Schola Peregrina’ will sing the office of Compline three times this weekend, all at 5.30 pm, in three different Dublin city centre churches, to which all are most warmly welcome.
This evening, Friday January 24, they will sing in St Catherine and St James’s Church on Donore Avenue (South Circular Road). Tomorrow, Saturday January 25, they will sing in the Georgian setting of St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street. On Sunday January 26, they will perform in the elegant Chapel of Our Lady at St Patrick’s Cathedral.
The music will include a ‘Praeter rerum seriem’ by Josquin des Prez (c.1450–1521), one of the most famous composers in Europe at the time, central to the Franco–Flemish school, and progenitor of Renaissance polyphony. The office will conclude with ‘Gaude flore virginali’ by Hugh Kellyk (fl.c.1480), of whom only this seven–part motet and a five–part Magnificat are known, both amongst the earlier pieces in the Eton choirbook. Although traditionally regarded as English, the orthography of his surname does perhaps suggest Irish or Scottish heritage.