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Choral Music for Holy Week

The Woman with the Alabaster Box: Arvo Pärt 1935-
Stabat Mater: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594
Lamentations: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548?-1611

The season of Lent, and the week leading up to Good Friday in particular, has inspired some of sacred music’s finest composition. This meditation through music presents a selection of the Renaissance’s most moving music for Lent by that period’s finest composers, plus new repertoire for Holy Week by 20th century composers as diverse as Edward Bairstow, Arvo Pärt and New Zealand composer David Farquhar. As the sun sets and the light fades, the German chorales from Bach’s St Matthew Passion return between each polyphonic piece as a litany to the life of Christ.

This performance was part of the 2005 Subscription Series (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 117kb)

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Download programme notes and texts & translations for this performance (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 165 Kb)

Programme

9pm Good Friday 25 March 2005
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Molesworth Street, Wellington
$25 / $15

dir. Alastair Carey

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