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St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England
Programme
Thomas Tallis – O Nata Lux
Sergei Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (Vespers): Nunc dimittis
Krzysztof Penderecki – Agnus Dei
Herbert Howells – Requiem
John Rutter – Hymn to the Creator of Light
Cecilia McDowall – Through a Glass Darkly
Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque
Nicholas O'Neill – The Light of Reason
Roxanna Panufnik – All Shall Be Well
Performers
Richard May – cello
David Ogden – Conductor
Exultate Singers
Programme Note
On this Remembrance Sunday evening, Bristol’s accomplished chamber choir present a programme of music on the theme of light as a symbol of hope and optimism.
Included are pieces written as a response to the fall of the Berlin Wall, exactly 30 years ago, when composers found new freedom to set religious texts without fear of persecution.
Other events and people are commemorated in a wide range of chant-inspired music from the 16th century to the present day. Nicholas O’Neill is composer-in-residence to the Parliament Choir, for whom he wrote a poignant setting of words by John Donne in memory of Jo Cox MP.
