Join Tenebrae for this special 40-singer concert in the inimitable Elbphilharmonie.

Arvo Pärt is a pivotal composer within music history. On the one hand, he is one of the most successful composers of New Music, and on the other hand, medieval Gregorian chant – a “music with soul, without harmony and meter”, as he once said – served as his greatest source of inspiration. In this programme, Pärt’s music is put in the context of composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, as well as contemporary works by composers such as Unsuk Chin and Eric Whitacre.

Programme

Sir John Tavener: Song for Athene
Orlando Gibbons: Drop, Drop Slow Tears / from: The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (arrangement by Christian Forshaw)
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams: Ave verum corpus re-imagined
Arvo Pärt: Gloria / from: Missa syllabica
Sir John Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God
             : Mother and Child
– INTERVAL–
Arvo Pärt: O Weisheit / from: Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen
       : The Beatitudes
: Cantate Domino canticum novum
: The Woman with the Alabaster Box
Eric Whitacre: When David Heard
Unsuk Chin: Nulla est finis / a Prelude to ‘Spem in alium’
Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium / Motet for 40 voices in eight choirs

Artist(s)

Tenebrae