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St James's Church
Sussex Gardens
Paddington
London
W2 3UD
England
Tickets
Prices: Free admission
Programme
William Byrd – Laudibus in Sanctis
Robert Parsons – Ave Maria
Thomas Weelkes – Gloria in excelsis Deo
Ildebrando Pizzetti – Libera me (from Requiem)
Pablo Casals – O Vos Omnes
Herbert Howells – Salve Regina
MacMillan James – O Radiant Dawn (from Strathclyde Motets)
Felix Mendelssohn – Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen, MWV B 53
Morten Lauridsen – O magnum mysterium
Performers
Richard Thomas – Conductor
Christopher Kent – Narrator
Programme Note
“At the Still Point of the Turning World” takes its title from T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, placing spoken word and unaccompanied choral music in quiet dialogue. Tredici chamber choir performs a selection of a cappella masterpieces interspersed with readings by actor Christopher Kent from Eliot, Philip Larkin, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Samuel Beckett and Rainer Maria Rilke. Shaped as a single, continuous narrative arc, texts and music intersect to offer a movingly contemplative perspective on time, memory and mortality.
