by Mike Telin
“England is one of our rather frequent places to visit. In part it has to do with the richness of the sound that the repertory offers,” Oberlin Collegium director Steven Plank told us during a recent telephone conversation. “Almost everything that we are singing on this program is very richly scored so it suits the ensemble well. It’s also the kind of music that revels in glorious sound and the combination of those two things make it rather inviting.”
On Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 in Fairchild Chapel, the Collegium Musicum Oberliniensis under the direction of Steven Plank presents Musica Britannica. Performances feature Gibbons’s O Clap Your Hands, Browne’s O Maria Salvatoris, Byrd’s Ave verum corpus, O salutaris hostia and Sacerdotes Domini, Tye’s Missa euge bone, Sheppard’s Salvator mundi, Domine and Libera nos and Paul Mealor’s Ubi Caritas. An abbreviated version of the concert will be presented on Wednesday, May 7 at 12:10 noon as part of Trinity Cathedral’s Brownbag Concert Series. [Read more…]