SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2010, 8pm, Canongate Kirk (note time and venue)

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The Gonzaga Band - Vespers à 4

The Gonzaga Band was formed by cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997 in order to explore historical approaches to the performance of vocal and instrumental music of the 16th and 17th centuries. This programme takes the Office of Vespers as a starting point for an exploration of the possibilities of transforming large-scale church music by composers such as Monteverdi, Palestrina and Lassus – some of it intended for the most magnificent of cathedrals and princely chapels – into small-scale devotional chamber music of the type that might have been heard in private performances in the palazzi of the Italian nobility and the increasingly wealthy middle class.

Faye Newton and Jamie Savan matched voice and instrument in dazzling duet - Catherine Bott, BBC Radio 3