SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS
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Performers
- Nigel Short
- conductor
- Tenebrae
- Britten Sinfonia
Programme
- Allegri
- Miserere
- Barber
- Adagio for Strings
- Poulenc
- Quatre Motets pour un temps de pénitence
- 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.
For Sir James MacMillan, “beauty is at the heart of our Christian faith”, and few living composers communicate with such emotional directness – taking ancient texts and charging them with a wholly original intensity, wonder and imaginative fire. Composed in 1994, his Seven Last Words have already become a classic. Now, on the eve of Holy Week, they form a passionate climax to an superbly-imagined 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”.
