Tenebrae: Tallis Lamentations for Holy Week
Tuesday 15 April 2025
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Nigel Short’s virtuoso chamber choir Tenebrae takes “passion and precision” as its motto, and both qualities will be in play in this beautifully-conceived sequence of Easter music from across cultures and centuries. Tonight, as part of the St Martin’s Easter Festival, they focus on the tragedy at the heart of the Easter story; songs of sorrow and quiet hope that range from the raw, ringing passion of Sir James MacMillan’s Miserere to the intense beauty of the music that William Byrd wrote for secret worship in a time of religious repression. Music that soothes the spirit even as it wrings the heart.
De Monte Super flumina Babylonis
Byrd Mass for 4 Voices
Byrd Ne irascaris Domine
Poulenc Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Tallis Lamentations I
James MacMillan Jesum tradidit impius
Tallis Lamentations II
James MacMillan Miserere
Tenebrae
Nigel Short conductor
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Tue 15 Apr | 7:30 PM | £40/£30/£25/£16/£10/£55 | Book |
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