Lavenham Music presents the award-winning choir, Tenebrae, performing ‘A Celestial Gift’, a concert to raise funds for St Nicholas Hospice Care.

Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), the award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision. Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rheingau Musik Festival and Sydney Festival. The choir has earned international acclaim for its interpretations of choral music from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces and has commissioned new music from composers including Judith Bingham, Joanna Marsh, Owain Park, Josephine Stephenson, Joby Talbot and Roderick Williams.

Tenebrae presents a wide-ranging programme spanning five centuries of sacred choral music. ‘A Celestial Gift’ features celebrated choral works such as Holst’s majestic Nunc dimittis and Allegri’s iconic setting of Psalm 51. Alongside these familiar favourites, this programme showcases a wealth of music by some of today’s most exciting composers, with particular highlights including In Winter’s House by Joanna Marsh and Sir James MacMillan’s stunning setting of the Miserere.

Programme

Orlande de Lassus – Musica Dei donum
Plainchant – Pange lingua
Philip Moore – Morning Prayer
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Owain Park – Beati quorum via
Joanna Marsh – Evening Prayer
Orlando Gibbons arr. Christian Forshaw – Drop, drop slow tears
Gregorio Allegri – Miserere, mei Deus

INTERVAL

John Tavener – Funeral Ikos
Joanna Marsh – In Winter’s House
Sergei Rachmaninov – Hymn to the Cherubim
Pavel Chesnokov – Svyety tihiy
James MacMillan – Miserere
Gustav Holst – Nunc dimittis

Join Lavenham Music on Saturday, 16 November, at 7.30pm at St Peter & St Paul Church in Lavenham for this free concert in aid of the Hospice, with a retiring collection.

We’d like to say a very big thank you to Lavenham Music who have given so much of their time and dedication to organising this event.

More information can be found here. To register to attend, please click here

This is a third-party event not organised by St Nicholas Hospice Care.

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