COMING EVENTS

Service of Tenebrae

Good Friday Service

St. Catwg's Church, Llangattock 2pm

We mark Holy Week with a traditional service of Tenebrae (shadows) on Good Friday at 2pm. During this dramatic liturgy, where candles are extinguished one by one to mark the stages of Christ's passion, the choir sings a sequence of complementary motets to highlight the emotional charge of events.

Many composers' most poignant and inspired music was written for reflection during Lent and Passiontide and our sequence will feature many of these, including penitential masterpieces by Tudor genius Thomas Tallis, who had witnessed the atrocities of both Catholic and Protestant repression, and the Italian duke Carlo Gesualdo, a tortured soul whose Tenebrae Responses are noted for their incredible harmonies and expressive intensity.

Other amazing pieces will include a soulful psalm setting by Schütz, and part of a deeply personal Requiem by Herbert Howells.

Don't miss this evocative sound world!

Wonders

An uplifting programme of music exploring life's special magic.

Dore Abbey, Abbeydore, Hereford HR2 0AA Time tbc

A sequence of beautiful choral pieces inspired by the mysteries of human experience and expressing the inexplicable wonders of nature, love, faith and friendship.

The programme also explores a great variety of choral styles from the glorious polyphony of Thomas Tallis, Schütz and Purcell to contemporary classics by Eric Whitacre,Morton Lauridsen and John Tavener. A recently published psalm setting by James MacMillan imbued with the composer's unmistakable and evocative style provides another concert highlight. Look out too for some extraordinary music by Purcell and Whitacre, celebrating the beauty of the natural world.