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Tenebrae Conducted by Nigel Short Wednesday 30 October, 2024 7.30pm Opening night of the 2024 festival £25 adult, £10 child (Booking fee applies) St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury |
Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision, and opens Celebrate Voice Festival 2024.
Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rheingau Musik Festival and Sydney Festival.
The choir has earned international acclaim for its interpretations of choral music from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces. Tenebrae has enjoyed collaborations with some of the UK’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia.
For Celebrate Voice, Tenebrae brings its trademark passion and precision to the dramatic programme I Saw Eternity, contrasting Bach’s iconic motets with the sacred music of Sir James MacMillan.
Renowned for their technical difficulty, Bach’s motets are pillars of the choral repertoire, requiring minute attention to detail as well as a full emotional range. Like Bach, MacMillan has written much of his music for the church, and his settings of the Tenebrae Responsories paint a vivid picture of the events of Holy Week. In 2021 he composed a work for Tenebrae to perform alongside the Bach motets, and the result is a moving setting of words by Henry Vaughan, I Saw Eternity.
"For purity and precision of tone, and flawless intonation, Nigel Short’s chamber choir Tenebrae is pretty much unbeatable." The Times
“Unaccompanied choral singing comes no better than this: in blend, accuracy, precision, commitment.” The Guardian
Programme
I Saw Eternity
J. S. Bach (1685–1750) Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229 (before 1732)
Sir James MacMillan (born 1959) Tenebrae Responsories (2006) – No. 1: Tenebrae factae sunt
J. S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 (before 1735)
INTERVAL
Sir James MacMillan Miserere (2009)
Sir James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories – No. 2: Tradiderunt me
Sir James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories – No. 3: Jesum tradidit
Sir James MacMillan I saw Eternity the other night (2021)
J. S. Bach Singet dem Herrn BWV 225 (1726–27)
Nigel Short Conductor
Please note this event is at St. Thomas's Church and NOT the Guildhall.
Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rheingau Musik Festival and Sydney Festival.
The choir has earned international acclaim for its interpretations of choral music from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces. Tenebrae has enjoyed collaborations with some of the UK’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia.
For Celebrate Voice, Tenebrae brings its trademark passion and precision to the dramatic programme I Saw Eternity, contrasting Bach’s iconic motets with the sacred music of Sir James MacMillan.
Renowned for their technical difficulty, Bach’s motets are pillars of the choral repertoire, requiring minute attention to detail as well as a full emotional range. Like Bach, MacMillan has written much of his music for the church, and his settings of the Tenebrae Responsories paint a vivid picture of the events of Holy Week. In 2021 he composed a work for Tenebrae to perform alongside the Bach motets, and the result is a moving setting of words by Henry Vaughan, I Saw Eternity.
"For purity and precision of tone, and flawless intonation, Nigel Short’s chamber choir Tenebrae is pretty much unbeatable." The Times
“Unaccompanied choral singing comes no better than this: in blend, accuracy, precision, commitment.” The Guardian
Programme
I Saw Eternity
J. S. Bach (1685–1750) Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229 (before 1732)
Sir James MacMillan (born 1959) Tenebrae Responsories (2006) – No. 1: Tenebrae factae sunt
J. S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 (before 1735)
INTERVAL
Sir James MacMillan Miserere (2009)
Sir James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories – No. 2: Tradiderunt me
Sir James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories – No. 3: Jesum tradidit
Sir James MacMillan I saw Eternity the other night (2021)
J. S. Bach Singet dem Herrn BWV 225 (1726–27)
Nigel Short Conductor
Please note this event is at St. Thomas's Church and NOT the Guildhall.
