Five centuries of sacred music unfold in an extensive and exciting programme entitled A Celestial Gift , which commemorates the magnificent 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Programme

Orlando de Lassus, Musica Dei donum
Liturgical unison, Pange lingua
Philip Moore, Morning Prayers
Caroline Shaw, And the swallow
Orlando Gibbons, arr. C. Forshaw, Drop, drop slow tears
William Byrd, Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams, Ave verum, re-imagined
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere, mei Deus
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina,
Tu es Petrus
Sicut cervus
Sitivit anima mea
Stabat mater
James MacMillan, Miserere
Gustav Holst, Nunc dimittis

Artist(s)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae