Venue details
St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JH
Box Office: 020 7766 1100
St Martin-in-the-Fields is an architectural jewel sitting at the corner of one of the world’s most famous squares.
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A programme of music that paradoxically takes us to the heart of human sorrow whilst enabling us to transcend it through ravishing choral beauty.
The Stabat Mater is without doubt, one of the most powerful poems of the liturgy and one which has inspired artists through the ages. This programme takes the grief of Mary, mother of Jesus, as its starting point, showcasing contrasting interpretations of this moving text, from the intricate harmonic language of contemporary composer Alissa Firsova, drawing on her roots in Russian Orthodoxy, to the exquisite contrapuntal poise of Palestrina, and Anerio’s glorious and ambitious 12-part setting.
PROGRAMME
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Plainsong
De Lamentatione
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Alissa Firsova
Stabat Mater
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Sheppard
Media vita in morte sumus
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F. Anerio
Stabat Mater for 12 voices
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Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence
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James MacMillan
Miserere
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Victoria
Litaniae Beatae Mariae
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor