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St Michaels and All Angels' Church
Dinham Road
Mount Dinham
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4EB
England
Programme
Gregorio Allegri – Miserere
Doménico Scarlatti – Stabat Mater a dieci voci
Alexander Levine – Prayers for Mankind: A Prayer for the disciples of Christ
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei
Francis Poulenc – Litanies à la Vierge Noire, FP 82
Performers
Nigel Perrin – Conductor
Peter Adcock – organ / piano
Exeter Festival Chorus
Programme Note
The sorrows and suffering of Mary, mother of Christ, are the inspiration for our Easter concert programme. Allegri’s Miserere is a penitential psalm for the Tenebrae services before Easter.
Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge Noire were inspired by a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Black Virgin of Rocamadour. Barber’s Agnus Dei, his own choral arrangement of the Adagio for Strings, is followed by Alexander Levine’s Morning Prayer, celebrating the life of a Russian Orthodox priest, assassinated for his beliefs.
The concert ends with Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, his setting of the 13th century hymn to the mother of Christ, as she stands at the foot of the cross, beholding her son’s crucifixion.
