A Weeping Harp: Victoria Requiem by Candlelight
Saturday 19 October, 7.30pm
St Mary the Virgin Church, Adderbury, OX17 3LW
A unique take on Tomás Luis de Victoria’s crowning glory, his 1605 Requiem, with organ and harp accompaniment in response to the text ‘Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum vocem flentium’ (‘My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep’). The programme also includes expressive settings by other Spanish Renaissance composers, including Juan Gutierrez de Padilla who mostly worked in Mexico. 400 years later, Arvo Pärt’s Virgencita was composed as a gift to the people of Mexico.
Tickets information coming soon.
Programme
Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, Circumdederunt Me
Alonso Lobo, Versa est in luctum
Arvo Pärt, Virgencita
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Officium Defunctorum (Requiem) 1605
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Versa est in luctum
Christmas Concert
Sunday 8 December at 4pm
St Peter’s Church, Hook Norton
Details to follow.
Details of our programmes for recent concerts can be found here.
Repertoire
Examples of the wide-ranging repertoire the choir sings can be found here.
