COMING EVENTS

Service of Tenebrae

St. Catwg's Church, Llangattock Good Friday at 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!