Award-winning choir Tenebrae presents a wide-ranging programme of music from the Renaissance to the present day. Featuring a number of familiar favourites, these works showcase the rich dark sound-world of the Russian orthodox, the prayerful intimacy of contemporary English masters and the soaring contrapuntal lines of the late Renaissance. Closing with Holst’s spectacular ‘Nunc Dimittis’, this programme is a true homage to choral greats past and present.

For purity and precision of tone and flawless intonation, Nigel Short’s chamber choir Tenebrae is pretty much unbeatable.” The Times

Programme

Alonso Lobo – Versa est in luctum
William Croft/Henry Purcell – Burial Sentences
Thomas Tallis – Loquebantur variis languis
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus
Gregorio Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus
John Tavener – Funeral Ikos
Tavener – Hymn to the Mother of God
Tavener – The Lamb
Alexander Sheremetiev – Nïne silï nebesïya
Gustav Holst – Ave Maria
Holst – Nunc Dimittis
Eric Whitacre – I thank You God
William Harris – Faire is the Heaven

Artist(s)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae