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Laidlaw Music Centre
Queen's Terrace
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9QF
Scotland
Programme
Thomas Tallis – Te lucis ante terminum
John Sheppard – In pace, in idipsum
Alonso Lobo – Versa est in luctum
Donna McKevitt – Lumen (Nunc Dimittis)
Jonathan Seers – Look down O Lord
Hildegard of Bingen – O Ecclesia
Owain Park – Phos hilaron
Carlo Gesualdo – Illumina faciem tuam
Luca Marenzio – Potrò viver io più se senza luce
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Io son ferito, ahi lasso
Joanna Marsh – Fading
Veljo Tormis – Marjal aega magada (It’s Time for the Little Berry to Sleep)
Gerda Blok-Wilson – O Little Rose
Sarah Rimkus – My heart is like a singing bird (A birthday)
Franz Schubert – Die Nacht, D.358
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – Abendlied, Op.69 no.3
Performers
The Gesualdo Six
Programme Note
Join The Gesualdo Six as they perform a sequence of atmospheric choral works at the Laidlaw Music Centre in St Andrews.
Since the fourth century, the service of Compline has marked the end of the day, ushering in the darkness of the night. Much of the music here is inspired by this ancient service, evoking a contemplative atmosphere, including renaissance polyphony by Lobo, Sheppard and Palestrina that contains startling harmonic shifts and expressive word painting. Then there is a turning point; the light returns, birds sing, and flowers bloom once more, with contemporary reflections by Veljo Tormis, Joanna Marsh, and Sarah Rimkus.
