Gesualdo Six in Concert

The Canynges Society presents Gesualdo Six in Concert

The Canynges Society Presents

THE GESUALDO SIX: LUX AETERNA

St Mary Redcliffe Church

Wednesday 19 April 7.30pm


Tickets £20 and £15 via Eventbrite


A poignant, hopeful sequence of music commemorating the departed.


Grief touches all of us at some point during our lives, affecting each person in different ways.


The music in this programme is intended to illustrate some of these emotions, exploring musical responses to mourning and loss. In broad terms, we focus in on three perspectives: uncertainty, acknowledgement and hope. If you like, this is a sequence for the 

souls of the departed, to be heard by those who remember them.


Cristóbal de Morales Parce mihi Domine

John Tavener Funeral Ikos

Orlande de Lassus Libera me, Domine


William Byrd Peccantem me quotidie

Thomas Tallis In jejunio et fletu


Howard Skempton And there was war in heaven

Donna McKevitt Lumen (Nunc Dimittis)


Owain Park Sequence: In Parenthesis


Eleanor Daley In remembrance


Cristóbal de Morales Lux aeterna (Communio)

Richard Rodney Bennett A Good-Night


Approximate duration: 1 hour 10 minutes


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