Lamentations

Choral Songs of Lamentation from the Renaissance to the Modern Age including music by Thomas Tallis, Dominique Phinot, Rudolf Mauersberger and Edward Bairstow

Tom Williams Director

Nick Scott-Burt Organ

The Lamentations of Jeremiah have proved a most poignantly fruitful text for composers throughout the history of choral music. In this concert, punctuated by inventive and expressive organ improvisation from Nick Scott-Burt, we present two classic interpretations of this great biblical text by Thomas Tallis and Edward Bairstow, as well as a couple of lesser-known responses from Franco-Flemish composer Dominique Phinot and former conductor of the Dresdener Kreuzchor, Rudolf Mauersberger. The latter’s response to the destruction of his home city in the Second World War, the motet Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst, is one of the most profound settings of the Lamentation text in whole musical canon. Beautiful polyphony combined with thought-provoking themes to stir and soothe the soul in equal measure.

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