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Tenebrae

Wednesday, 21 August 2019, Zweisimmen Church

Choral Concert

Wednesday, 21 August 2019
7.30 pm, Zweisimmen Church

As with Berlioz and Sir Colin Davis, British musicians always had a soft spot for the art of their «best enemies» from across the Channel. The London musicians of the Tenebrae ensemble are thus ideally placing their secular choral tradition at the service of French art, creating a dialogue, bridging eight centuries, between pioneer polyphonies of the Notre-Dame School and sacred masterpieces by Francis Poulenc, the so lovable «monk and rogue».

Tenebrae (London)
Nigel Short, Conductor

Pérotin (ca. 1160-ca. 1230) 
«Viderunt omnes»10'
Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460-ca. 1515) 
Lamentations de Jérémie10'
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) 
4 Motets motets pour un temps de pénitence16'
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) 
«O sacrum convivium»4'
– Interval – 
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) 
Salve Regina4'
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) 
4 Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens8'
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) 
«Figure humaine», cantata on texts by Paul Eluard20'
 100'
CHF 125/105/65 

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