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Eternal Sacrifice

Music for Holy Week

Friday 30 March 2018, 7:30pm


Pre-concert talk 7pm

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington

Directed by Michael Stewart

This Good Friday we explore the parallel symbolism of the crucifixion of Christ, and the lives of the fallen in this centennial year of the end of WWI. Featuring Parry’s elegiac Songs of Farewell and Harold Darke’s little known cantata As the leaves fall, alongside Renaissance motets for Passiontide and poems by Wilfrid Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.

Programme

Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15  Henry Purcell

Anthem for doomed youth - Wilfrid Owen

Songs of Farewell  C.Hubert H. Parry

My Soul, there is a country
I know my soul hath power

Miserere mei  William Byrd

Greater Love - Wilfrid Owen

Songs of Farewell  Parry

There is an old belief

As the leaves fall  Harold Darke

Interval

Song 46 (Drop, drop, slow tears)  Orlando Gibbons

Suicide in the trenches - Siegfried Sassoon 

When David heard  Thomas Weelkes

Songs of Farewel l Parry

Never weatherbeaten sail 
At the round earth’s imagined corners

The Death Bed - Sassoon

Songs of Farewell  Parry

Lord, let me know mine end

This concert was part of the 2018 Performance Series.

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Review

30 March 2018

Musical Director

Michael Stewart

2023 Performance Series

March 25

Bach’s St Matthew Passion – With the Chiesa Ensemble

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