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Corvus Consort (vocal ensemble)
A choice of two programmes: full-length concert or hour-long programme
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Full-length concert programme
This full-length concert programme explores how composers from the Renaissance to the present day have responded to Lenten themes of repentance, lamentation and petitions for mercy.
Tomás Luis de Victoria - Popule meus |
Freddie Crowley - Stabat Mater |
Vicente Lusitano - Emendemus in melius |
Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence |
Interval |
John Sanders - The Reproaches |
William Byrd - Ne irascaris, Domine |
James MacMillan - Miserere |
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Hour-long programme
This hour-long programme juxtaposes Renaissance and 20th-century soundworlds by interspersing Francis Poulenc’s atmospheric Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence with works by Renaissance composers Thomas Tallis and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Thomas Tallis - Sancte Deus |
Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Timor et tremor |
Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Recessit pastor noster |
Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Vinea mea electa |
Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: O vos omnes |
Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Tenebrae factae sunt |
Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Ecce quomodo moritur justus |
Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence: Tristis et anima mea |
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus |
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Some other works that could be featured in similar programmes:
Robert White - Miserere mei, Deus |
Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah |
Edgar Day - When I survey the wondrous cross |