The Albany Consort: From Chaos to the Sublime

1600 was an important time for music. Revolutionary thinking insisted that we were done with the cerebral and ready to reinvent expression. A time to return to roots, a time for drama. The new music was a hit, but the old music wasn’t going away any time soon. This program looks at how these ideas played out with four works: Rebel‘s Le Cahos (beginning with the oddest chord in our repertoire), two Purcell pieces (a six part In Nomine firmly roote...