Details

St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England

Sunday 25th March 2018
6:30 PM

Programme

Gregorio Allegri – Miserere
Arvo Pärt – St John Passion
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Tenebrae Responses
Alonso Lobo – Versa est in luctum

Performers

Nigel Short – Conductor

Aurora Orchestra
Tenebrae

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Programme Note

Following their recent sell-out performance of Faure’s Requiem at St George’s, the stunningly high calibre musicians of Tenebrae and Aurora are reunited here for a performance of Arvo Pärt’s extraordinary setting of the St John Passion. Known widely as ‘Passio’ since its debut recording on ECM New Series in the 1980s, the Estonian master’s Passiontide work, setting chapters 18 and 19 from St John’s gospel, has an austere, solemn, monolithic beauty which has entranced many listeners since.

The passion and precision of Tenebrae’s elite singers will also shine in other beautifully solemn music from renaissance Spain, by Victoria and Lobo, and in Gregorio Allegri’s celebrated, soaring

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*Please note there has been a change to previously published start time