Joseph McHardy, director

The new vocal ensemble Chineke! Voices present the astonishingly rich and imaginative music of Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano alongside fellow composers from the period. Lusitano was the first black composer to be published in Europe and a key musical figure of the times. Lusitano’s music survives in manuscript, and has been researched and edited for this performance by Joseph McHardy.

Programme

All works by Vicente Lusitano

• Beati omnes qui timent Dominum

• Hic est Michael archangelus

• Emendemus in melius

• Gombert - Lute Solo

• Aspice Domine de sede sancta

• O beata Maria

  Interval

• Regina coeli

• Quid montes, musae?

• Josquin – Lute Solo

• Salve Regina

• Inviolata

Performers

• Isabelle Haile and Madison Nonoa, sopranos

• Christina Gill, Garreth Romain and Anita Monserrat, altos

• Protik Moulik and Daniel Lewis, tenor

• Malcolm Merriweather and Krishnan Ram Prassad, bass

• Andrew Maginley, lute

• Joseph McHardy, director

• Singers from the St John the Divine Kennington Children’s Choir