Singet

The programme features motets a vocal musical composition for multiple voices and often based on sacred texts ranging from the solemn to the joyful, through intimate solos to sonorous works, and providing audiences with a captivating range of musical colours through combinations of voices, violins, and continuo (cello and chamber organ).

The concert title, Singet comes from the title of the programme’s opening and closing pieces, two eight-part settings of Singet dem Herrn, each coming from either end of the Baroque period: the first, written by Heinrich Schütz in 1619, and the second, J.S. Bach’s famous and exuberantly virtuosic setting from the 1720s.

The programme is completed by two further choral works, Dieterich Buxtehude's Jesu meine Freude, and J.C. Bach's Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben; and two instrumental works, Johann Vierdanck's Ich freue mich in Herrn and Johann Rosenmüller's Warlich warlich.

Resurgam is regarded as the premiere project-based professional choir in Ireland and has worked with such international conductors as Monica Huggett, Christophe Rousset, Erin Headley, John Butt, and Christian Curnyn. It has also made acclaimed appearances at the Bach Festival, Lausanne, and the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.

Sagittarius Hiberniensis is a chamber choir founded and directed by Peter Barley, the organist and choir director of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick. It specialises in early music, particularly choral works, sacred motets, and cantatas from the Renaissance and Baroque.

The concert is part of Resurgam’s autumn tour of the western seaboard in partnership with
local festivals and choirs. This event in St Mary’s Cathedral is presented by Now And Then Media and H.I.P.S.T.E.R. (Historically Informed Performance Series, Teaching, Education, and Research).