19.08.2015
Peregryne on Tour in the West Country
Next week Peregryne, the small choral ensemble specialising in rarely heard church music directed by Dr Stuart Kinsella will take up a residency in Bristol cathedral. Members of Peregryne (pictured), who regularly sing in churches in Dublin city centre and around the country, will assemble by air, land and sea in the city of Bristol to begin singing in the cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity there for the week, beginning on Monday 24 August and culminating in a sung eucharist and evensong on Sunday 31 August.
The music takes a geographical theme with Franco–Flemish works by Willaert, Melchior Franck and Josquin on Monday, Irish works by Ní Dhubhghaill and Kellyk on Tuesday and Spanish works by Victoria and Guerrero on Wednesday. Friday is German including Bach and Schütz, while Saturday collects a Jack Charlton Celtic fringe which includes Howells, Mathias and Cornysh. Sunday morning is for the modern Francophile with works by Frank Martin and Olivier Messiaen in the morning, while the afternoon is an English affair with works by Moore, Weelkes and Tallis.
Peregryne will also sing an informal lunchtime concert within ‘the fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish church in England’, Bristol cathedral’s spacious rival, the medieval parish church of St Mary Redcliffe. On their ‘dumb–day’ on Thursday, they will venture forth to Bath abbey where they will sing a lunchtime concert, while on Saturday evening following evensong at Bristol cathedral, they will sing compline in nearby Clifton cathedral.
The music will be accompanied by a variety of organists from Bristol, Dublin, Exeter and Oxford, including Harry Meehan, former organ scholar of St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin (2010–12), Truro cathedral (2012–13) and currently, Queen’s college, Oxford.