Choral Music for Holy Week 2005
Friday 25 March 2005, 9pm
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington
Directed by Alastair Carey
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.
Programme
Chorale: Herzliebster Jesu: Matthaus Passion: J S Bach 1685-1750
Agnus Dei: Cipriano de Rore 1516-1565
Lamentations: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548?-1611
I Heard a Voice from Heaven: Thomas Tomkins 1572-1656
Chorale: Ich will hier bei dir stehen: Bach
Versa est in Luctum: Alonso Lobo 1555?-1617
Psalm 119: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
Ne irascaris Domine: William Byrd 1540?-1623
Chorale: Wer hat dich so geschlagen: Bach
Stabat Mater: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594
Chorale: Befiehl du deine Wege: Bach
Winter wakeneth all my care: David Farquhar 1928-
Lamentations: Edward Bairstow 1874-1946
Ach, arme welt: Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
Chorale: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden: Bach
The Woman with the Alabaster Box: Arvo Pärt 1935-
Chorale: Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden: Bach
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Reviews
In all, this was a splendid performance…the music was uplifting and inspiring [and] the audience was rapt.
Middle C, 31 October 2015
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