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Seven Last From The Cross
Part of the Three Choirs Festival Gloucester 2019
Add to my Calendar 26-07-2019 19:45 26-07-2019 21:45 36 Seven Last From The Cross The acclaimed choir of Merton College, Oxford celebrates Sir James MacMillan’s 60th birthday year with his spellbinding masterpiece Seven Last Words from the Cross, an intensely moving account of the final moments of Christ’s crucifixion. A selection of reflective works from some of Britain’s finest choral composers opens the concert, with the first half culminating in Gabriel Jackson’s vivid and jubilant motet. Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Tewkesbury Abbey
Church Street
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
GL20 5RZ
England
Programme
Judith Weir – Ave Regina Caelorum
James MacMillan – Seven Last Words from the Cross
Gabriel Jackson – Countless and Wonderful are the Ways to Praise God
Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
James MacMillan – Miserere
Dobrinka Tabakova – Alma Redemptoris Mater
Performers
Benjamin Nicholas – Conductor
Choir of Merton College, Oxford
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Programme Note
The acclaimed choir of Merton College, Oxford celebrates Sir James MacMillan’s 60th birthday year with his spellbinding masterpiece Seven Last Words from the Cross, an intensely moving account of the final moments of Christ’s crucifixion. A selection of reflective works from some of Britain’s finest choral composers opens the concert, with the first half culminating in Gabriel Jackson’s vivid and jubilant motet.
