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Crux Fidelis: music for Passiontide
Londinium (chamber choir), Andrew Griffiths (conductor)
Add to my Calendar 31-03-2023 19:30 31-03-2023 21:30 36 Crux Fidelis: music for Passiontide As Holy Week approaches, Londinium offers a stunning selection of music for Lent and Passiontide. Poulenc's arresting Quatre motets are heard alongside evocative works by Leighton, Bruckner and Sanders, and a sequence of fine motets and anthems by Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi and Morales. Music from our own time completes our programme: Matthew Martin's plangent setting of the Lamentations, Sarah MacDonald's intertwining of texts by Emily Dickinson and Emilia Lanier, and an unforgettable reinvention of Byrd by Roderick Williams. Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served in the interval. St John's Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St John's Church
73 Waterloo Road
Waterloo
London
SE1 8TY
England
Programme
Henry Purcell – Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences, Z.50
Sarah Macdonald – Crux Fidelis
Cristóbal de Morales – O Crux, ave
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est, WAB 11
Thomas Tallis – Salvator Mundi (I)
Francis Poulenc – Quatre motets pour une temps de pénitence, FP 97
~ Interval ~
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Matthew Martin – The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Claudio Monteverdi – Adoramus Te
John Sanders – The Reproaches
Kenneth Leighton – Drop, drop slow tears
Roderick Williams – Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
As Holy Week approaches, Londinium offers a stunning selection of music for Lent and Passiontide. Poulenc's arresting Quatre motets are heard alongside evocative works by Leighton, Bruckner and Sanders, and a sequence of fine motets and anthems by Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi and Morales. Music from our own time completes our programme: Matthew Martin's plangent setting of the Lamentations, Sarah MacDonald's intertwining of texts by Emily Dickinson and Emilia Lanier, and an unforgettable reinvention of Byrd by Roderick Williams.
Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served in the interval.
