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Tenebrae joins the Britten Sinfonia for James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross.

Recorded on the 28th March at St Martin-in-the-Fields, presented by Ian Skelly.

Edmund Finnis: Hymn (After Byrd)
Allegri: Miserere
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Victoria: Responsories (selection)

Interval

James MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross

Tenebrae
Britten Sinfonia
Nigel Short (conductor)

Barber鈥檚 Adagio and Allegri鈥檚 Miserere prepare the way for James MacMillan鈥檚 great Passion meditation in this emotionally charged evening from Tenebrae and Britten Sinfonia.

First heard in 1994, and recorded by Britten Sinfonia subsequently on Hyperion, MacMillan鈥檚 intense and emotionally-direct Passiontide setting has deservedly become a modern classic. It is performed here alongside a sequence of musical meditations from Nigel Short, Britten Sinfonia and Tenebrae - the virtuoso British chamber choir whose singing was described by one critic as 鈥渁 kind of musical miracle鈥�.