Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Motets of Lalande (1657-1726)
I am now retired, but my Fellowship had a profound and lasting effect on my career in music performance and musicology, leading to many first modern editions of music from the court of Louis XIV and Louis XV, including two festivals of music at Versailles for which I provided the music editions and wrote the programme books.
I subsequently hired some of this music to over 100 choirs and orchestras worldwide and also published a 750-page catalogue of the music of the leading composer of sacred music at the French court, Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), whose motets were the original subject of my Fellowship.
Many of the first modern editions I was able to produce of the music of Lully, Lalande, Rameau and Royer have since been recorded and broadcast widely, and these all spring from the researches made possible by my Fellowship.
Conductor and musicologist Lionel Sawkins (CF 1974) was invited to Hamburg by the Monteverdi-Choir to perform his edition of Lalande's Te Deum at St. Michael's Church, prior to the pandemic. Lionel studied the work of Lalande as part of his Fellowship which explored religious composers.
By Lionel Sawkins, 2020
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Conductor and musicologist Lionel Sawkins (CF 1974) was invited to Hamburg by the Monteverdi-Choir to perform his edition of Lalande's Te Deum at St. Michael's Church, prior to the pandemic. Lionel studied the work of Lalande as part of his Fellowship which explored religious composers.
By Lionel Sawkins, 2020
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
