St John’s, Smith Square Holy Week Festival: The full, final Sacrifice: A Lenten Sequence


St John's, Smith Square Holy Week Festival: The full, final Sacrifice: A Lenten Sequence

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/04/2019
7:30 pm

Location
St John's, Smith Square


Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Eleanor Carter & Ashley Chow, organ
Graham Ross, conductor

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and conductor Graham Ross make their debut at St John’s, Smith Square’s Holy Week Festival with a beautiful Lenten sequence including settings of the Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday, Sanders’ The Reproaches, James MacMillan’s stunning Miserere, and Gerald Finzi’s Eucharistic masterpiece, Lo, the full, final Sacrifice.

The full, final Sacrifice: A Lenten sequence

LODOVICO GROSSI DA VIADANA (1560-1627) Sicut ovis ad occisionem 
JOHN SANDERS (1933-2003) The Reproaches 
GIOVANNI CROCE (1557-1609) Plange quasi virgo 
ORLANDO GIBBONS (1583-1625) Drop, drop, slow tears 
THOMAS TALLIS (c.1505-85) In ieunio et fletu 
SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY (1810-76) Wash me thoroughly 
HERBERT HOWELLS (1892-1983) Like as the hart 
JAMES MACMILLAN (b. 1959) Miserere 
– interval –
WILLIAM BYRD (c.1539/40-1623) Ne irascaris, Domine / Civitas sancti tui 
TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA (c.1548-1611) O vos omnes 
ALONSO LOBO (1555-1617) Versa est in luctum 
WILLIAM BYRD Ave verum corpus
RODERICK WILLIAMS (b. 1965) Ave verum corpus Re-imagined 
JONATHAN HARVEY (1939-2012) I love the Lord 
JONATHAN HARVEY Nunc dimittis 
GERALD FINZI (1901-56) Lo, the full, final sacrifice

https://www.sjss.org.uk/events/choir-clare-college-cambridge-2