SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS WITH TENEBRAE
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Performers
- Tenebrae
- Nigel Short
- conductor
- Britten Sinfonia
- Marcus Barcham Stevens
- leader/director
Programme
- Edmund Finnis
- Hymn (After Byrd)
- Allegri
- Miserere
- Barber
- Adagio for Strings
- Victoria
- Responsories (selection)
- James MacMillan
- Seven Last Words from the Cross
Barber’s Adagio and Allegri’s Miserere prepare the way for James MacMillan’s great Passion meditation, in this emotionally-charged evening from Tenebrae and Britten Sinfonia.
We continue our longstanding relationship with the music of Sir James MacMillan with Holy Week performances of his Seven Last Words from the Cross.
First heard in 1994, and recorded by Britten Sinfonia subsequently on Hyperion, MacMillan’s intense and emotionally-direct Passiontide setting has deservedly become a modern classic. It is performed here alongside a sequence of musical meditations from Nigel Short, Britten Sinfonia and Tenebrae – the virtuoso British chamber choir whose singing was described by one critic as “a kind of musical miracle”.
