Tenebrae are looking forward to this special launch concert for their new album, A Prayer for Deliverance, due to be released on Friday 20th June 2025. Expect a live performance of music from the album, along with the opportunity to purchase your own copy of the disc before it goes on public sale the following day.

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
Cecilia McDowall – Standing as I do before God
Francis Pott – The Souls of the Righteous
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Richard Rodney Bennett – A Good-Night
Joel Thompson – A Prayer for Deliverance

INTERVAL

John Tavener – Song for Athene
Robert Pearsall – Lay a Garland
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes
Herbert Howells – Requiem
William Henry Harris – Bring us, O Lord God

Artist(s)

Tenebrae