A sequence of Easter music from across cultures and centuries. As part of the St Martin’s Easter Festival, we present a concert focusing on 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.
Programme
Philippe da Monte – Super flumina Babylonis
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices
Byrd – Ne irascaris Domine
Francis Poulenc – Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Thomas Tallis – Lamentations I
Sir James MacMillan – Jesum tradidit impius
Tallis – Lamentations II
MacMillan – Miserere
