With a programme that traverses the Renaissance, living composers, and between, this concert has many musical highlights. William Byrd’s Ave verum corpus is paired with Roderick William’s inventive reimagining. There are new works by composers Ivo Antognini and Jessica Ulusoy Horsley, as well as Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei, which is his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings. The second half of this concert moves through Francis Poulenc’s profound Lentern motets and ends with Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, a work that was so deeply personal he withheld it from performance for over 40 years.

Programme

Ivo Antognini – Dum Aurora
Felix Mendelssohn – Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen, MWV B 53
Jessica Ulusoy Horsley – Engelsmusik
1. Colours of Light’s Sound
2. In Between
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams – Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei

Interval

Francis Poulenc – Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
1. Timor et tremor
2. Vinea mea electa
3. Tenebrae factae sunt
4. Tristis est anima mea

Frank Martin – Mass for double choir a cappella
1. Gloria
2. Kyrie
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Agnus Dei

Artist(s)

Tenebrae