Mixing iconic choral works with music by some of today’s most exciting composers, this varied programme is centred around themes of rest. Joel Thompson’s virtuosic new work is a particular highlight: written for 15 vocal parts, A Prayer for Deliverance (2021) perfectly showcases Tenebrae’s core values of passion and precision. The second half features Herbert Howells’ Requiem – surely one of the most moving works in the English choral repertoire.

Programme

Gustav Holst – The Evening Watch
Requiem aeternam (chant)
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Herbert Howells – Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rest
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes
Ben Parry – Flame
Cecilia McDowall – Standing as I do before God
William Henry Harris – Bring us, O Lord
Joel Thompson – A Prayer for Deliverance

This programme will last for approximately 70 minutes and will run without an interval.

Artist(s)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae