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Passiontide
Concert
White's
Lamentations
presented by ANTIPHON
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 | Date: |
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Saturday 12th March, 2005 |
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8.00 pm |
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£6 and £4 concessions |
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St Mary's RC Church, Hencotes,
Hexham, NE46
2EQ Click here for directions |
| Music: |
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Lamentations by Robert
White (1538-1574) |
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Leçons de Ténèbres by
Couperin (1668-1733) 'one of the vocal gems of the baroque era' is sung by two
sopranos: Nerys Blanckley and Jessica Holmes and accompanied by Keith Wright on Organ and
Andrew Fowler on basso continuo. |
The Book of
Lamentations are part of the liturgy of the Holy Week, and demonstrate the
components of lament, atonement and repentance of the Easter festivities.
As originally used in the Roman Catholic liturgy, the text for the Lamentations comes from
the Latin Vulgate as translated from the original by St. Jerome and further elaborated on
by other translators. The Vulgate translators kept a trace of the original arrangement of
the poetry by retaining the Hebrew letter at the beginning of each verse. The chant
setting of the Lamentations respected the Vulgate and the initial letters provided
for extended melismas (long groups of notes on the same vowel).
"Beautifully polyphonic, Robert White used harmonic lattices daring for the
time" C Michael Bailey
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