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Streamed live from the RNLI's 200th year Service of Thanksgiving, at York Minster, 20th April, 2024. Organ - Ben Morris Conductor - Toby Ward Ensemble Pro Victoria

Composed by Philip Stopford in 2008, 'Lully, Lulla, Lullay' is drawn from Pro Victoria's 2024 album 'Advent Calendar', a sequence of music and readings for Advent and Christmas, jointly curated with the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. The text is drawn from the Coventry Carol (16th century), which was traditionally performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called 'The ...

Setting text by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Piers Connor Kennedy's 'Advent Calendar' was commissioned in 2021 for the inaugural Harrogate Advent Festival for festival directors Toby Ward (Artistic Director - Ensemble Pro Victoria), Anthony Gray (Director of Music - St Wilfrid, Harrogate) and violist Matthew Farrell. This work is the title track of Ensemble Pro Victor...

The first half of Victoria's Regina Caeli a8, filmed live during our first ever recording sessions in January 2019! The complete Regina Caeli a8, along with other great works by Victoria (and our more recent CD releases) are available to buy at £1 per track via www.ensembleprovictoria.com/recordings. With thanks to the Howard family for the use of the private chapel of Castle Howard, North York...

John Blow (1649-1708) was a Chapel Royal chorister before two separate tenures as Organist at Westminster Abbey from 1668, giving up the role for his pupil Henry Purcell in 1679 and reclaiming the post after his death in 1697. During this break, Blow served as Organist and Choirmaster at the newly consecrated St Pauls Cathedral in 1687, was a private musician of James II, and was briefly the Or...

'I was glad', a setting of Psalm 122, was written for the grand coronation of King James II in 1685, when Purcell was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and organist of St Margaret's, Westminster. Filmed live at the London International Festival of Early Music, November 2021. Ensemble Pro Victoria Toby Ward Fiona Fraser, Rebecca Leggett, Elisabeth Paul, Oscar Golden-Lee, Piers Kennedy Chamber orga...

William Byrd joined Elizabeth I's Chapel Royal in 1572, and probably wrote this anthem a few years later. The text, from psalm 21, was customised to address the queen by name. Following the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the work was rededicated to Charles I, as it is found in the Peterhouse Caroline partbooks. During the reign of Elizabeth II, Byrd’s original was - of course - pleasingly fittin...

Sancta Maria virgo virginum was recorded live (in addition to Prioris' Dulcis amica Dei) in early February 2023, designed as an example of the repertoire which will feature in 2024's AHRC-funded, cross-disciplinary project: Henry VIII on Tour (www.henryontour.uk) David Rose Soundsystems St John the Baptist, Holland Park

Taking during sessions in early March 2023, this is one of two polyphonic Christe eleison passages from Francisco Garro's missa saeculorum amen. Alongside his missa Maria Magdalena, Guerrero's Maria Magdalena motet (on which Garro's mass is based), and settings by Garro of the asperges me, vidi aquam, and motets for Lent and Christmas Day, this forms the first recording of Francisco Garro's mus...

Jehova Quam multi sunt (Z135), composed by Henry Purcell (1659-1595) circa 1680, live from the 2021 London International Festival of Early Music. Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes is one of only two sacred Latin motets by Purcell which, from its autograph manuscript, has been dated around 1680. It is not known why Purcell should have set a Latin Psalm text: it seems highly improbable that such a w...

The first in a series of videos presenting 'Henry VIII on Tour', Dulcis amica Dei is one of a many works AHRC-funded project organised by Historic Royal Palaces, the University of York, Newcastle University, and Ensemble Pro Victoria. Henry VIII on Tour: Landscapes, Communities and Performance, examines the itineraries of Royal progress, its impact on places and people, and the ways in which bu...

Released in October 2022, Tudor Music Afterlives tells the story of music which lived an afterlife during the monumentous religious and cultural changes of the sixteenth century. 'I call and cry' is one of three known contrafacta (different words set to existing music, in this case), applying fresh and anguished English text to an earlier Catholic work by one of Britain's greatest composers, Th...

This extraordinarily expressive anthem by Henry Purcell (1659-1695) sets text from the litany as compiled by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Tudor leader of the English Reformation (d. 1556). Performed at the London International Festival of Early Music 2021, as part of the winners recital from the International Young Ensemble Competition 2020. www.ensembleprovictoria.com www.delp...

Filmed live from the London International Festival of Early Music 2021. Ensemble Pro Victoria soloists Elisabeth Paul, Oscar Golden-Lee and Humphrey Thompson feature in Purcell's famous 'Bell Anthem', accompanied by Richard Gowers (chamber organ) and Rachel Kay (cello). Known as 'The Bell Anthem' for its downward, repetitive pealing bass-line, this live performance particularly benefits from th...

Sound the Trumpet - Henry Purcell

Bach St John Passion | Ensemble Pro Victoria

Mein teurer Heiland (Bach - St John Passion) | Ensemble Pro Victoria

Parce mihi, Domine - Francisco Garro

Asperges me (a5) - Cristóbal de Morales

Robert Fayrfax - 1521-2021

Illustrissima omnium - John Sheppard

Fayrfax - Magnificat Regale excerpts: esurientes / Gloria second half.

The Three Kings - Dove | Ensemble Pro Victoria

In dulci jubilo - German trad. arr. Pearsall.