Canterbury Gregorian Music Society

Canterbury Gregorian Music Society presents a lunchtime concert of Gregorian Chant and renaissance polyphony for the Blessed Virgin Mary. The programme includes several well-known Marian chants and other less familiar antiphons such as the 3rd Century Sub tuum praesidium. A small group, led by Paul Young sings renaissance settings of the same texts, showing how chant lines were often integrated into the elaborate compositional style of the 16th Century.

The music is punctuated by readings from Pearl, the late 14th Century poem about a dream of Heaven, ascribed to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.