The Rodolfus Choir follows the sun in an early evening recital of music from light to darkness.
Hear Byrd’s radiant O lux beata Trinitas and Charles Wood’s Hail, gladdening light alongside music for the evening by Schütz, Rheinberger and Finzi. At the heart of the programme is Brahms’s searching motet Warum ist das Licht gegeben – “Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery” – and two contemporary works by Owain Park, the new chief conductor of the BBC Singers.
Brahms Warum ist das Licht gegeben
Byrd O lux beata Trinitas
Finzi All this night
Owain Park O send out thy light
Owain Park Search the darkness
Rheinberger Abendlied
Schütz Deutsches Nunc Dimittis
Wood Hail, gladdening light
Conductors – Elinor Cooper & Peter Davis
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