Choir
A Celestial Gift
Tenebrae
- Date night
- Under 90 mins
- First-timer friendly
- Early finish
- Date
- Sat, 29 Aug 2026
- Time
- 19:30 · 1h 30m
- Venue
- The Burnhams
- City
- Burnham
- Conductor
- Nigel Short
- Tickets
- from £40
You'll be taken to the ensemble's official site.
Summary
Nigel Short conducts Tenebrae in a programme of Allegri, Palestrina, and Rachmaninov at The Burnhams, featuring choral works ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary pieces by MacMillan and Shaw.
Programme
- 01Orlando Lassus – Musica Dei donum
- 02Plainchant – Pange Lingua
- 03Philip Moore – Morning Prayer
- 04Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
- 05Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Kyrie and Gloria from the Missa Papae Marcelli
- 06Gregorio Allegri – Miserere Mei, Deus
- 07INTERVAL
- 08Orlando Gibbons arr. Christian Forshaw – Drop, Drop Slow Tears
- 09Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Sicut Cervus and Sitivit Anima Mea
- 10Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Tu Es Petrus
- 11Sergei Rachmaninov – Bogoroditse Devo
- 12Sergei Rachmaninov – Heruvimskaya Pesn
- 13Sergei Rachmaninov – Tebe Poem
- 14James MacMillan – Miserere
