4 - 9 December 2017
A Winter Chorale
As winter thickens and darkness descends, let this be our shining gift to you: a smorgasboard of glittering Renaissance, Baroque, 20th- and 21st-century jewels to ring and resonate through the night. Our much-loved advent tour pairs glowing candles and atmospheric venues with music of hidden depths, spiritual solace, meditative reflection and warm midwinter comfort.
Always delivering a few extra gifts, this year we bring you the dynamic, inimitable vocal ensemble I Fagiolini, with seven singers joining us for a mesmerising evening of sound and light.
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Evocative Renaissance and Baroque pieces including: -
Byrd
Miserere Mihi, Domine -
Bach
Wie soll ich dich empfangen+ (from Christmas Oratorio) -
Caresana
La Tarantella -
Holborne
A short set of works for strings -
Monteverdi
Tempro la cetra -
Atmospheric contemporary works including: -
Edmund Finnis
Verbo Domini -
James MacMillan
For Sonny -
Arvo Pärt
Credo and Kyrie (from Berliner Messe) -
Pēteris Vasks
Plainscapes II -
Adrian Williams
Winter Chorale (UK premiere) -
John Woolrich
Ulysses Awakes (after Monteverdi)
