Brighton, UK. 24th October 2015. Brighton Early Music Festival performance of Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter featuring Musica Secreta, Celestial Sirens and Brighton Festival Youth Choir. The performance at St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, on the festival's opening weekend, features the entrancing music of the materna lingua (mother tongue) motets, composed by a mysterious 16th Century nun, believed to be Suor Leonora d'Este, the only daughter of Lucrezia Borgia and Duke Alfonso I d’Este. The works is the result of ground-breaking research by Laurie Stras.
Brighton, UK. 24th October 2015. Brighton Early Music Festival performance of Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter featuring Musica Secreta, Celestial Sirens and Brighton Festival Youth Choir. The performance at St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, on the festival's opening weekend, features the entrancing music of the materna lingua (mother tongue) motets, composed by a mysterious 16th Century nun, believed to be Suor Leonora d'Este, the only daughter of Lucrezia Borgia and Duke Alfonso I d’Este. The works is the result of ground-breaking research by Laurie Stras, professor of music at the University of Southampton. This years festival is on the theme of Women, and is probably the UK's largest ever celebrations of female historical composers yet.
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Location: St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
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