Join Tenebrae in Gothenburg Cathedral for the Gothenburg Organ Festival’s opening ceremony and concert. With extracts from Tenebrae’s programme A Prayer for Deliverance, and additions featuring the Cathedral’s organ, the varied programme will feature some of the most exciting composers of today and yesteryear. Joel Thompson’s virtuosic new work A Prayer for Deliverance is a particular highlight of the programme: written for 15 vocal parts, itperfectly showcases Tenebrae’s core values of passion and precision. Herbert Howells’ Requiem also features, and is surely one of the most moving works in the English choral repertoire.

Programme

Arvo Pärt – The Beatitudes
Cecilia McDowall – Standing as I do before God
ORGAN: William Byrd: Fantasie in A
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Richard Rodney Bennett – A Good-Night
Joel Thompson – A Prayer for Deliverance
INTERVAL
Howells – Requiem
ORGAN: Franz Liszt: Variations on “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”
Vaughan Williams – Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge

Artist(s)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae