A sequence of Easter music from across cultures and centuries. As part of Misteria Paschalia 2025, 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 de Monte (1521–1603) – Super flumina Babylonis
William Byrd (1540–1623) – Mass for 4 Voices
William Byrd – Ne irascaris Domine
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) – Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
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Thomas Tallis (1505–1585) – Lamentations I
James MacMillan (b. 1959) – Jesum tradidit impius
Thomas Tallis – Lamentations II
James MacMillan – Miserere

Artist(s)

Tenebrae