Day 293
Tomkins: Three anthems
O sing unto the Lord a new song
Then David mourned
My beloved spake and sang unto me
Choir of St George’s Chapel Windsor
Christopher Robinson
Tomkins was just a name to me - I don’t recall hearing any of his music and I don’t think that he featured in the music history course at university. I chose these three anthems at random. They are in a quite different style to the polyphonic masses that I have been listening to over the last few days. That’s not just because they use English texts. There is also the question of organ accompaniment. I am not entirely sure exactly what role the organ played in this music but it was present in these performances and not just doubling the voices. The music itself was expressive and had a wide harmonic range coupled with a sense of energy in the more chordal sections. I certainly enjoyed hearing these three pieces but in all honesty they have not remained in the memory in the way that some of the other music I have listen to this week has.
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