Estonian composer Arvo Pärt acts like an interface within the history of music. On the one hand, he is one of the most successful composers of so-called »new music«, even if he aesthetically quickly took his leave of the experiments of the post-war avant-garde. On the other hand, medieval Gregorian chant – a »music with soul, without harmony and metre«, as he once said – served him as the greatest source of inspiration. In this sense, it only seems logical that the acclaimed British choir Tenebrae has now created a programme that presents Pärt’s music in context with composers of the Middle Ages as well as the present.
PERFORMERS
Tenebrae choir
George Herbert organ
Nigel Short conductor
PROGRAM
Sir John Tavener
Song for Athene
Orlando Gibbons
Drop, Drop Slow Tears
William Byrd
Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams
Ave verum corpus re-imagined
Arvo Pärt
Gloria
Sir John Tavener
Hymn to the Mother of God
Sir John Tavener
Mother and Child
- Interval -
Arvo Pärt
O Weisheit
Arvo Pärt
The Beatitudes
Arvo Pärt
Cantate Domino canticum novum
Arvo Pärt
The Woman with the Alabaster Box
Eric Whitacre
When David Heard
Unsuk Chin
Nulla est finis
Thomas Tallis
Spem in alium
