This program celebrates some of the finest choral works from the Renaissance through the present day, ranging from the haunting Allegri ‘Miserere mei, Deus’, to Holst’s resplendent setting of ‘Nunc Dimittis’. Featuring a number of familiar favourites, these works showcase the rich dark sound-world of Bruckner, the prayerful intimacy of contemporary English masters and the soaring contrapuntal lines of the late Renaissance. Closing with Harris’ spectacular ‘Faire is the Heaven’, this program is a true homage to choral greats past and present.

Programme

Alonso Lobo – Versa est in luctum
William Croft/Henry Purcell – Burial Sentences
Thomas Tallis – Loquebantur varis linguis
Thomas Tallis – Salvator mundi
Thomas Tallis – Te lucis ante terminus
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus
Gregorio Allegri – Miserere Mei, Deus

Interval

John Tavener – Funeral Ikos
John Tavener – Hymn to the Mother of God
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Gustav Holst – Nunc Dimittis
Anton Bruckner – Virga Jesse
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est
William Harris – Faire is the Heaven

Artist(s)

Tenebrae