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Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Programme
Arvo Pärt – Da pacem Domine
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices: Kyrie
Arvo Pärt – Morning Star
William Byrd – Mass for 4 voices: Credo
Arvo Pärt – I am the true vine
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices: Sanctus and Benedictus
Arvo Pärt – Most Holy Mother of God
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices: Agnus Dei
Orlando Gibbons – Hosanna to the son of David
John Tavener – The Tyger
Orlando Gibbons – O Lord in Thy Wrath
John Tavener – The Lamb
Orlando Gibbons – Lift up your heads
John Tavener – Funeral Ikos
Orlando Gibbons – Nunc Dimittis
John Tavener – Love bade me welcome
Orlando Gibbons – O clap your hands together
Performers
Andrew Carwood – Conductor
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Programme Note
A beautiful programme which sets 16th-century polyphony alongside contemporary minimalism. The mystical minimalists John Tavener and Arvo Pärt are as immersed in their religious feelings as William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons yet they come from very different traditions. Byrd’s dark-toned Mass for four voices inspired by Catholic devotion is set against Gibbons’ more suave and energetic Anglican writing.
Tavener and Arvo Pärt instead look to the Orthodox traditions of the East. These contemporary writers use a direct and powerful approach, ikon-like in its seeming simplicity but immensely powerful.
‘Truly extraordinary.’
