Tenebrae returns to Purbeck Arts Week with a programme commemorating 400 years since the death of William Byrd, one of England’s greatest composers. This programme showcases some of Byrd’s most inspirational, devotional and popular works, alongside those of his contemporaries in the atmospheric and historic setting of The Priory Church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham. 

Programme

Lobo – Versa est in luctum
Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Byrd – Mass for 4 voices (without Credo)
Byrd – Laudibus in sanctis
Byrd – Vigilate
Padilla – Missa Ego flos campi (without Credo)

Interval

Sheppard – In manus tuas I
Plainsong – Pange lingua
Byrd – Ne irascaris
Tallis – Lamentations I
Chant – In monte oliveti
Sheppard – In manus tuas II
Tallis – Lamentations II
Blitheman – In pace in idipsum

Artist(s)

Tenebrae