Mystic Ritual
Created especially for Blythburgh Church at dusk, this flow of music spans millennia and links two of the earliest female composers with classics of the choral repertoire.
- Tom Coult (after Hildegard of Bingen):
- O Ecclesia (8’)
- Hildegard of Bingen arr. Tom Coult:
- O Euchari (Britten Pears Arts commission / first performance) (8’)
- Tom Coult (after Kassia):
- Hymns of Kassiana (Britten Pears Arts commission / first performance) (8’)
- Tavener:
- Mother of God, Here I Stand (3’)
- Arvo Pärt:
- Morning Star (4’)
- Arvo Pärt:
- Da pacem Domine (3’)
- Gaspar van Weerbeke:
- Mater digna Dei (4’)
- Jean Lhéritier:
- Ave domina mea (4’)
- Josquin des Prez:
- Ave Maria (6’)
The Marian Consort
Daniel Pioro violin
Rory McCleery director
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Tom Coult’s new reimagining of music by the medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Byzantine mystic, Kassia, are a wonderful match for The Marian Consort’s interest in marrying ancient and contemporary musical influences into a new coherent whole.
The programme honours the sacred ritual and mysticism which is so central to the works it includes; in Daniel Pioro’s words, this event will create “one of those rare moments where the often-made connection between music and the Divine is totally appropriate”.
It is specially conceived for the magical space of Blythburgh Church, a venue first used by the Aldeburgh Festival in 1956 and the location of countless memorable occasions over the years.
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