The Desolate City
Music for Holy Week
Friday 14 April 2017, 7:30pm
Pre-concert talk 7pm
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington
Directed by Michael Stewart
A recital of choral music commemorating the wartime destruction of Dresden and Hiroshima, and the cry of the persecuted Catholic mourning the loss of the spiritual Jerusalem in a violently Protestant England. Featuring Byrd’s haunting Civitas sancti tui, Mauersberger’s hymn of mourning to his beloved Dresden Wie liegt die Stadt, and Jack Body’s anguished setting of Psalm 137 (By the waters of Babylon), his last commissioned work for The Tudor Consort.
Programme
Ne irascaris, Domine - Civitas sancti tui Byrd
Lamentatio Heremiae Prophete Brumel
Psalm 137 Body
Wie liegt die Stadt Mauersberger
De lamentatione Mundy
Super flumina Babylonis da Monte
Quomodo cantabimus Byrd
Ghosts, fire, water Mews
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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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