FESTIVAL Palm Sunday 14 April – 20 April 2019

#SJSSHolyWeek Curated by in partnership with St John's Smith Square Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall #SJSSHOLYWEEK HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: PALM SUNDAY —— —— The TallisSchoars It is with great pleasure that I warmly invite you to our next Holy Week Festival. © It is a celebration of glorious music from Poulenc’s dramatic and poignant four motets Nick Rutter composers inspired by the greatest devotion for Lent, together with Haydn’s setting and faith, who were moved by the compelling performed by the esteemed Brodsky Quartet. narrative of Holy Week. From the late-night Once again, we are delighted to welcome some Offices of Tenebrae sung by candlelight to J.S. of the UK’s finest vocal ensembles together Bach’s powerful St John and St Matthew with their astonishingly talented directors. Passions, there will be something for everyone. The festival will also mark the 60th When you have made the journey to St John’s birthday year of one of the UK’s finest living Smith Square to join us, sit back, relax and let composers, Sir James MacMillan, by this musical feast transport you away from celebrating his extraordinarily beautiful and the everyday strains and stresses of our evocative music. hectic modern day lives. Stay on to immerse yourself in our re-enactment of some of the Amongst other highlights, MacMillan’s most atmospheric and spiritually intense incomparable setting of theSeven Last Words liturgical events of the Christian calendar. from the Cross will be performed by Tenebrae I hope that this festival fulfils all your and Britten Sinfonia, coupled with Francis musical needs. THE TALLIS SCHOLARS We look forward to welcoming you Inspired by the Sistine Chapel this Eastertide. Peter Phillips director Palestrina ‘Kyrie’ from Missa Assumpta est Maria Morales Regina caeli Palestrina ‘Gloria’ from Missa Ecce ego Johannes “...one of the UK’s Festa Quam pulchra es greatest cultural Carpentras Lamentations exports” Nigel Short Palestrina ‘Credo’ from Missa Papae Marcelli – BBC Radio 3 Artistic Director, Tenebrae Allegri Miserere mei, Deus Palestrina ‘Sanctus’ from Missa Confitebor tibi domine Josquin Inter Natos Mulierum Alexander Campkin Miserere Mei Palestrina ‘Agnus Dei’ from Missa Brevis This year’s Holy Week Festival opens with the world-renowned vocal ensemble, The Tallis Scholars. All these Renaissance composers worked in the Sistine Chapel and wrote for the choir there. Quite a number of the pieces can be identified as having been specifically written for that building. Campkin’s Miserere Mei is a direct response to the renowned Allegri setting of the same psalm. The framework of the programme is a composite mass by Palestrina. thetallischolars.co.uk

Sun 14 April 7.30pm Nigel Short © Sim Cannetty-Clarke Sir James MacMillan © Philip Gatward £35, £28, £22, £14

2 Book online sjss.org.uk Box Office 020 7222 1061 3 HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: HOLY MONDAY HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: HOLY TUESDAY —— —— Brodsky Quartet Etcetera Civil Service Choir The Marian Consort © Martina Simkovicova © Nick Rutter © David Pearson

THE MARIAN CONSORT

In Sorrow’s Footsteps: Allegri, MacMillan, Palestrina, Jackson

Rory McCleery conductor Palestrina Stabat Mater “The Brodsky’s ability to communicate on so many levels – humanity and ETCETERA CIVIL Palestrina Ave Maria a5 virtuosity all part of the essential integrity of their approach...” Gabriel Jackson Stabat Mater – The Guardian SERVICE CHOIR (London premiere)* Allegri Miserere mei, Deus Schubert Deutsches Stabat Mater Victoria Salve Regina a6 BRODSKY QUARTET Sir James MacMillan Miserere mei, Deus Etcetera Civil Service Choir *performed with young singers from Music Daniel Rowland violin Etcetera Orchestral Consort Centre London Ian Belton violin Stephen Hall OBE conductor Paul Cassidy viola “Exquisite... the ensemble sings with Jacqueline Thomas cello Schubert Stabat Mater in G minor D175 eloquence and expressive finesse” Sir James MacMillan For Sonny Schubert Stabat Mater in F minor D383 – The Sunday Times Sir James MacMillan Memento Etcetera – the outstanding Civil Service Haydn The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross Op. 51 The Marian Consort presents paired settings Choir – makes its seventh St John's Smith of two of the most emotionally-charged Square appearance in a stunning lunchtime Haydn considered his The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the sacred texts of the Christian tradition: concert. The choir presents not one Stabat Cross to be one of his greatest works superior to either of his later Gregorio Allegri’s famous Miserere is paired Mater but two for Holy Week – they are both oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons. It is performed in its with James MacMillan’s contemporary by Schubert and they are both utterly most popular quartet setting by the illustrious Brodsky Quartet reimagining, while Palestrina’s double-choir beautiful. Tickets (which are free) are alongside two string quartet miniatures by the Holy Week Stabat Mater is heard alongside a fresh available from the Box Office in person or by Festival’s featured composer, Sir James MacMillan. response to this extraordinary text from one phone. Do not delay as tickets will be taken of the UK’s foremost choral composers, quickly! This concert will last around 75 minutes without an interval. Gabriel Jackson. civilservicechoir.org.uk brodskyquartet.co.uk marianconsort.co.uk musiccentrelondon.com

Mon 15 April 7.30pm Tue 16 April 1.05pm Tue 16 April 7.30pm £25, £20, £15, £10, YF Free Admission (with retiring collection) £28, £22, £16, £10

4 Book online sjss.org.uk Box Office 020 7222 1061 5 HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: SPY WEDNESDAY HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: —— —— Ex Cathedra SirMacMillan James SANSARA © Theo Willianms © Theo © Hans van der Woerd

SANSARA

Candles Northern Rites Tom Herring artistic director EX CATHEDRA © Chris O'Donovan WORKSHOP WITH St Matthew Passion SIR JAMES MACMILLAN Trad. arr. Bengt Ollén Trilo Sir James MacMillan The Gallant Weaver Jeremy Budd evangelist Trad. arr. Grete Pederson Ned i vester soli Marcus Farnsworth Sir James MacMillan ‘Qui meditabitur’ glader Lawrence White pilate from The Strathclyde Motets Sir James MacMillan Dominus dabit Katie Trethewey, Angela Hicks Sir James MacMillan ‘Videns Dominus’ benignitatem & Elizabeth Adams soprano from The Strathclyde Motets Sir James MacMillan A Child’s Prayer Martha McLorinan Sir James MacMillan ‘Mitte mauam tuam’ Knut Nystedt O Crux & Harriet Hougham Slade alto from The Strathclyde Motets Anna ThorvaldsdottirÞann heilaga kross Bradley Smith tenor This year’s Holy Week Festival marks the 60th Oliver Tarney Irish Blessing Greg Skidmore bass birthday year of one of the UK’s finest living Trad. arr. Hakon Nystedt Når mitt øye, trett Jeffrey Skidmore conductor composers by celebrating his extraordinary av møye Bach St Matthew Passion musical output. Join Sir James MacMillan for Sir James MacMillan Lux aeterna an insightful morning singing and discussing Trad. arr. Ørjan Matre Herrens venner Monumental and yet grippingly immediate, his choral music. This programme explores the rich and Bach’s St Matthew Passion tells the profound LITURGICAL EVENT I diverse heritage of music from the drama of Christ’s last days with music of Tenebrae We advise that most value is brought to Scandinavian and Celtic traditions: aching beauty. Every musical possibility is Nigel Short conductor those with prior choral experience and interlinked by their shared encounters used to express and sustain an extraordinary Reverend Graham Buckle cleric-in-residence suggest participants should either be throughout history, traces of contact linger range of feelings: love, sacrifice, betrayal, familiar with the scores or be confident in their languages and music. Hear works by suffering, remorse, helplessness and shame. Victoria Tenebrae for Maundy sight-readers. Scores will be provided on the James MacMillan alongside Scandinavian This sublime and emotional piece is Thursday day and the workshop will last two hours. folk melodies, Knut Nystedt’s powerful O particularly powerful during Holy Week. A moving sequence of devotional Tenebrae Crux and a beautiful memorial piece by Workshop participants are entitled to a 10% settings and responses performed by SANSARA’s Associate Composer, Oliver Sung in German. discount (within the same transaction) to candlelight. Tarney. The BBC Singers’ concert on the evening of excathedra.co.uk tenebrae-choir.com Thursday 18 April. sansarachoir.com

Wed 17 April 7.00pm Wed 17 April 10.15pm Thu 18 April 11.00am Thu 18 April 6.00pm £35, £28, £22, £14 Free Admission £20 (£14) £15 (£10), YF

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THE BBC SINGERS The BBC Singers TENEBRAE —— Sir James MacMillan conductor Sir James MacMillan Cum vidisset Jesus © Sim Cannetty-Clarke “For purity and precision of tone, and Sir James MacMillan ‘Qui meditabitur’ from flawless intonation, Nigel Short’s chamber choir The Strathclyde Motets Gesualdo ‘In Monte Oliveti’ from Tenebrae is pretty much unbeatable” Responsories for Maundy Thursday —— 1st Nocturn The Times Sir James MacMillan ‘Videns Donimus’ from The Strathclyde Motets Gesualdo ‘Tristis est anima mea’ from Responsories for Maundy Thursday 1st Nocturn Sir James MacMillan ‘Mitte manuam tuam’ from The Strathclyde Motets Gesualdo ‘Ecce vidimus eum’ from Responsories for Maundy Thursday 1st Nocturn Sir James MacMillan Pascha nostrum immolatus est Sir James MacMillan Domine non secundum peccata nostra Gesualdo Benedictus Sir James MacMillan A Choral Sequence from the St John Passion

Sir James MacMillan conducts the BBC Singers in a programme of choral music for Maundy Thursday. Alongside movements LITURGICAL EVENT II from the ’s Responsories for Tenebrae Maundy Thursday, Sir James conducts his Nigel Short conductor own works, including movements from The Reverend Catherine Duce cleric-in-residence Strathclyde Motets and A Choral Sequence from the St John Passion. Sir James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories for Participants of the morning workshop are entitled to a 10% discount (within the same A moving sequence of devotional Tenebrae transaction) for this concert. settings and responses by the Holy Week Festival’s featured composer, Sir James

This concert will be broadcast on MacMillan, performed by candlelight. Tenebrae BBC Radio 3. © Sim Cannetty-Clarke bbc.co.uk/singers tenebrae-choir.com

Thu 18 April 7.30pm Thu 18 April 10.15pm £28, £22, £16, £10 Free Admission

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WORKSHOP: DONATE THE TENEBRAE EFFECT The Holy Week Festival gives space Gresham Centre, Gresham St, to reflect on the most poignant London EC2V 7BX © Ali Webb © Keith Saunders liturgical sequences in the Christian calendar.

Stephen Layton Bach ‘Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein’ from St Tenebrae Workshop Please give what you can in support John Passion BWV245 of this unique festival of workshops, Poulenc ‘Vinea mea electa’ from Quatre concerts and free late-night liturgical motets pour un temps de pénitence events for all to attend. Stainer ‘God so loved the world’ from The Crucifixion To donate, please contact Tom Herring (Festival Coordinator) at Would you like to find out what it takes to be a Tenebrae singer? [email protected]

‘The Tenebrae Effect’ is Tenebrae’s inspiring choral development initiative which is designed to challenge and advance every BACH ST JOHN PASSION participant, whilst providing an insight into Polyphony the elements which make Tenebrae’s sound Polyphony and interpretation of music so unique. Join Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Tenebrae’s Artistic Director, Nigel Short, and Nick Pritchard evangelist © Benjamin Ealovega members of Tenebrae for what is set to be a Neal Davies jesus fascinating and informative morning. Rowan Pierce soprano Helen Charlston mezzo soprano Ruairi Bowen tenor “Most enjoyable workshop I have ever © Ali Webb attended. A real pleasure to find such a Ashley Riches bass high skill level in a workshop.” Stephen Layton director

Tenebrae Workshop Bach St John Passion We advise that most value is brought to those with prior choral experience and Reviews of Polyphony’s recording of Bach's suggest participants should either be St John Passion with the OAE include BBC familiar with the scores or be confident Music Magazine, “This new recording’s sight-readers. Scores will be provided on the credentials border on the unassailable,” and day and the workshop will last two hours. Presto Classical, “It’s remarkable simply because it’s practically perfect in every way”. Workshop participants are entitled to a 10% Bach’s sublime music, performed by top discount (within the same transaction) to soloists, choir and orchestra in a beautiful Tenebrae’s concert on the evening of Friday building – this is an experience not to be 19 April. missed. tenebrae-choir.com stephenlayton.com/polyphony oae.co.uk

Fri 19 April 11.00am Friday 19 April 2.30pm £20 (£14) £60, £50, £40, £25

10 Book online sjss.org.uk Box Office 020 7222 1061 11 HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: GOOD FRIDAY HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL: HOLY SATURDAY —— —— The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge TENEBRAE & BRITTEN SINFONIA © Kaupo Kikkas Seven Last Words from the Cross Britten Sinfonia Britten

Nigel Short conductor de Oro Siglo Poulenc Quatre motets pour un temps © Nick Rutter de pénitence Victoria Selection from the Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday Sir James MacMillan Seven Last Words THE CHOIR OF CLARE from the Cross COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Tenebrae and Britten Sinfonia collaborate for Graham Ross conductor the first time for an absorbing and moving Eleanor Carter & Ashley Chow organ concert experience. These premiere ensembles celebrate Sir James MacMillan’s Viadana Sicut ovis ad occisionem 60th birthday year with his Seven Last Words Sanders The Reproaches from the Cross, widely admired as one of the Croce Plange quasi virgo composer's finest achievements, alongside SIGLO DE ORO Gibbons Drop, drop, slow tears Tallis In ieunio et fletu poignant liturgical music by Poulenc and Popule meus: Italian Polyphony Wesley Wash me throughly Victoria. MacMillan’s cantata follows Christ’s for Holy Week final utterances at the Crucifixion, Howells Like as the hart Sir James MacMillan Miserere meditating on each to form a dramatic and Patrick Allies artistic director emotional sequence. Byrd Ne irascaris, Domine – Civitas sancti tui Palestrina Improperium expectavit Victoria O vos omnes “I wasn’t merely listening to this music; I Josquin Miserere Lobo Versa est in luctum came to feel I was living inside it… a Anerio Stabat Mater Byrd Ave verum corpus performance to remember.” – The Times Werrecore Popule meus Roderick Williams Ave verum corpus LITURGICAL EVENT III Palestrina Lamentations for Holy Saturday re-imagined (Tenebrae, Holy Week Festival 2018) Tenebrae Gabrieli Maria stabat ad monumentum Jonathan Harvey I love the lord Nigel Short conductor Jonathan Harvey Nunc dimittis Pre-concert talk with Sir James MacMillan Vocal ensemble Siglo de Oro present a Reverend Graham Buckle cleric-in-residence Finzi Lo, the full, final sacrifice and Nigel Short: 7.00pm programme of Italian polyphony for Holy Week. The works chosen trace a journey that The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and Victoria Tenebrae Responsories for The concert will last around 75 minutes begins with the dignity of Palm Sunday, conductor Graham Ross perform a beautiful Holy Saturday without an interval. Participants of the travels through the agony of Good Friday Lenten sequence including settings of the morning’s workshop are entitled to 10% A moving sequence of devotional Tenebrae and arrives at a mood of anticipation on Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday, ticket discount for this concert. Bookings settings and responses performed by Easter Eve. All of the music featured was Sanders’ The Reproaches, James MacMillan’s must be made in the same transaction. candlelight. written in the16 th century for the chapels stunning Miserere, and Gerald Finzi’s and cathedrals of Rome, Milan, Venice Eucharistic masterpiece, Lo, the full, Free admission and Ferrara. final sacrifice. tenebrae-choir.com brittensinfonia.com tenebrae-choir.com siglodeoro.co.uk clarecollegechoir.com

Fri 19 April 8.00pm Fri 19 April 10.15pm Sat 20 April 1.05pm Sat 20 April 7.30pm £35, £28, £22, £14 Free Admission £15 (£10), YF £28, £22, £16, £10

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To mark Sir James MacMillan’s 60th birthday year the festival includes performances of his extraordinarily beautiful and evocative music from a host of distinguished headline performers including the festival curators, Tenebrae and Nigel Short. Cover: Tenebrae © Sim Cannetty-Clarke; SirMacMillan James

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