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Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Programme

Orlando Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears

Performers

Christian Forshaw – Saxophone
Nigel Short – Conductor

Tenebrae

Other concerts in this Festival

Siglo de Oro: Holy Week in Hamburg

The King's Singers: The Two Mountains

Bach: St Matthew Passion

The Civil Service Choir & Consort

Tenebrae: Miserere, mei Deus

The Choir of Royal Holloway: Crucifixus

Bach: St John Passion

Musica Secreta: From Darkness into Light

Bach: B Minor Mass

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Programme Note

Full programme
Gibbons: Drop, drop slow tears
Hildegard von Bingen arr. Nigel Short: O vos imitatores
Christian Forshaw: Renouncement
Victoria: The Reproaches
Nigel Short: Tenebrae Responsories: Una hora
Nigel Short: Tenebrae factae sunt
Tallis arr. Christian Forshaw: O nata lux
Christian Forshaw: In paradisum
Tallis: Absterge Domine
Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum
Gibbons arr. Nigel Short: Drop, drop slow tears

Virtuoso saxophonist Christian Forshaw is joined by Nigel Short and a consort of Tenebrae singers in an ethereal sequence of penitential settings for Holy Week. Combining elements of ancient and modern to stunning effect, Forshaw and Tenebrae bring new colours and context to music by Gibbons, Tallis, and Hildegard von Bingen in a series of new arrangements and compositions, many of which will be performed for the first time in this reflective concert.

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