The music of the Spanish Renaissance is the focus of this year’s tour, ‘Lead, Kindly Light’. From sadness to great rejoicing, the wealth of emotions is captured beautifully in selected works by Crisóbal de Morales and Sebastián de Vivanco.
This year’s tour takes it’s title from a poem by Saint John Henry Newman - a personal plea for divine guidance during times of uncertainty and personal crisis. Kerensa Briggs explores these emotions in her piece specially commissioned for this year’s tour, complemented by James MacMillan’s emotive setting of Newman’s words ‘Nothing in Vain’.
Programme:
Vivanco: Christus factus est pro nobis
Morales: Emendemus in Melius
Vivanco: Assumpta est Maria
Morales: Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas
Kerensa Briggs: Lead, Kindly Light (new commission)
Vivanco: Magnificat Octavi toni
Morales: Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Vivanco: O quam suavis est, Domine
Morales Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix
Morales: Lamentabatur Jacob
Vivanco: Caritas Pater est
James MacMillan: Nothing in Vain (Commissioned in 2021 by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen)
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