Tenebrae – A Prayer for Deliverance

Tenebrae – A Prayer for Deliverance: performed by Tenebrae Choir, Nigel Short (Director) playing Holst: The Evening Watch; McDowell: Standing as I do before God; Pott: The Souls of the Righteous; Shaw: And the swallow; Bennett: A Good-Night; Vaughan Williams: Rest; Thompson: A Prayer for Deliverance; Tavener: Song for Athene; Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth; Pearsall: Lay a Garland; Sullivan: The Long Day Closes; Howells: Requiem; Harris: Bring Us, O Lord at St Mary's Kirk, Haddington on Tue 15 Sept 7.30pm as part of the Lammermuir Festival. Tenebrae's long association with the Festival has brought us some truly stunning concerts. Mixing iconic English choral works with music by some of today's most exciting composers, this programme is centred around themes of rest. Joel Thompson's virtuosic new 15-part work A Prayer for Deliverance perfectly showcases Tenebrae's core values of passion and precision. The second half features Herbert Howells's Requiem - surely one of the most moving works in the English choral repertoire.