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A Prayer for Deliverance

A Prayer for Deliverance

Mixing iconic choral works with music by some of today’s most exciting composers, this varied programme is centred around themes of rest. Joel Thompson’s virtuosic new work is a particular highlight: written for 15 vocal parts, A Prayer for Deliverance (2021) perfectly showcases Tenebrae’s core values of passion and precision. The second half features Herbert Howells’ Requiem – surely one of the most moving works in the English choral repertoire.

Programme:

Gustav Holst – The Evening-watch

Cecilia McDowall – Standing as I do before God

Francis Pott – The Souls of the Righteous

Caroline Shaw – And the Swallow

Richard Rodney Bennett – A Good-Night

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rest

Joel Thompson – A Prayer for Deliverance

INTERVAL

John Tavener – Song for Athene

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Valiant-for-Truth

Robert Pearsall – Lay a garland

Arthur Sullivan – The long day closes

Herbert Howells – Requiem

  1. Salvator mundi

  2. Psalm 23

  3. Requiem aeternam I

  4. Psalm 121

  5. Requiem aeternam II

  6. I heard a voice from Heaven

William Harris – Bring us, O Lord

Photo credit Kathleen Holman

  • 🎉Perth Festival of the Arts
  • 📅Fri 24 May 2024
  • 📍St John's Kirk, Perth
  • 🕑7:30pm
  • 🎫£5 - £36
  • ➕4 other performances
Location

St John's Kirk, Perth
St Johns Place, Perth, PH1 5SZ, United Kingdom

Other performances

In addition to the performance listed above, this concert will also be performed as follows:

A Prayer for Deliverance
  • 📅Mon 19 August 2024
  • 📍Abbaye de Souillac
  • 🕑9:00pm
  • 🎫From €20
  • 🎉Festival de Rocamadour
A Prayer for Deliverance
  • 📅Wed 21 August 2024
  • 📍Kulturkirche St. Stephani, Bremen
  • 🕑7:30pm
  • 🎫From €24
  • 🎉Musikfest Bremen
A Prayer for Deliverance
  • 📅Thu 22 August 2024
  • 📍Kloster Eberbach, Eltville am Rhein
  • 🕑8:00pm
  • 🎫€20 - €65
  • 🎉Rheingau Musik Festival
A Prayer for Deliverance
  • 📅Fri 23 August 2024
  • 📍Franziskanerkirche, Luzern
  • 🕑8:00pm
  • 🎫Fr. 30-90
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