Victoria Requiem by Candlelight at St Mary the Virgin Church, Banbury on Saturday 19th October 2024

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Victoria Requiem by Candlelight

Add to my Calendar 19-10-2024 19:30 19-10-2024 21:30 36 Victoria Requiem by Candlelight North Cotswold Chamber Choir (NC3) invite you to enjoy an evening of Renaissance music by candlelight. Our Principal Conductor, George Parris, leads us for this concert. Doors open at 7pm to allow you to collect a drink from the bar before taking your seat. A unique take on Tomás Luis de Victoria’s crowning glory, his 1605 Requiem, with organ accompaniment in response to the text ‘Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum vocem flentium’ (‘My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep’). The programme also includes expressive settings by other Spanish Renaissance composers, including Juan Gutierrez de Padilla who mostly worked in Mexico. 400 years later, Arvo Pärt’s Virgencita was composed as a gift to the people of Mexic St Mary the Virgin Church, Banbury DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary the Virgin Church
Mill Lane
Adderbury
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX17 3LW
England

Saturday 19th October 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Tomas Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum a 6
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Versa est in luctum
Arvo Pärt – Virgencita
Alonso Lobo – Versa est in luctum
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla – Cirumdederunt me

Performers

George Parris – Conductor
Adrian Moore – organ

North Cotswold Chamber Choir

Programme Note

North Cotswold Chamber Choir (NC3) invite you to enjoy an evening of Renaissance music by candlelight. Our Principal Conductor, George Parris, leads us for this concert. Doors open at 7pm to allow you to collect a drink from the bar before taking your seat.

A unique take on Tomás Luis de Victoria’s crowning glory, his 1605 Requiem, with organ accompaniment in response to the text ‘Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum vocem flentium’ (‘My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep’). The programme also includes expressive settings by other Spanish Renaissance composers, including Juan Gutierrez de Padilla who mostly worked in Mexico. 400 years later, Arvo Pärt’s Virgencita was composed as a gift to the people of Mexic

Your events at Classical Events