La Tempête

La Tempête

La Tempête transports the audience into the atmosphere of the days leading up to Easter, when sorrow and hope lie close together. Over the course of three key days in the church year – Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday – the programme builds step by step towards Easter, accompanied by appropriate music.

In this concert, Gregorian chants and Renaissance music by Orlandus Lassus, Thomas Tallis and Cristóbal de Morales come together with the contemplative works of Arvo Pärt and the impressive double-choir mass by Frank Martin.

Two choirs move through the space, enveloping the audience in sound. This creates an intense musical experience in which different eras and styles converge in a single nocturnal journey.

Also live on www.emtv.online.

With an introduction by Annelies Andries (19:15 hrs, in Dutch) and a Q&A session (after the concert, in English), both taking place in the Fentener van Vlissingen Foyer (limited capacity)

Programme

• Marbrianus de Orto

  Lamentation: Guimel

  c1460-1529
• Plainchant

  Nos autem gloriari oportet
  (from: Manuscript of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, 1071)

• Frank Martin

  Mass for Double Choir
  Kyrie

  1890-1974
• Orlandus Lassus

  Répons des ténèbres
  In monte Oliveti

  1530/32-1594
• Frank Martin

  Mass for Double Choir
  Gloria

• Thomas Aquinas

  Pange lingua

  c1225-1274
• Anonymous

  Tantum ergo
  (from: Corsican Franciscan manuscript, 1649)

• Arvo Pärt

  Canticle of Simeon: Nunc Dimittis

  *1935
• Thomas Tallis

  Jeremiah’s lament for Holy Friday
  Aleph

  c1505-1585
• Plainchant

  Popule meus/Hagyos O Theos
  (from: Manuscript of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere)

• Frank Martin

  Mass for Double Choir
  Credo (i)

• Plainchant

  Crux fidelis
  (from: Graduale Triplex, 1979)

• Knut Nystedt

  Antienne
  O Crux

  1915-2014
• Christóbal de Morales

  Lamentatio: Zain

  c1500-1553
• Frank Martin

  Mass for Double Choir
  Credo (ii)

• Plainchant

  Alleluia/Pascha nostrum
  (from: Manuscript of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere)

• William Byrd

  Terra tremuit

  c1540-1623
• Plainchant

  Victimae paschali laudes

• Frank Martin

  Mass for Double Choir
  Sanctus

• Anonymous

  Psalm 112 : Alleluia/Laudate pueri Dominum
  (from: Manuscript of Carpentras, 17th century)

• Frank Martin

  Mass for Double Choir
  Agnus Dei
  
  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Véronique Housseau, Annabelle Bayet, Ellen Giacone, Marine Margot soprano I
• Lorraine Tisserant, Caroline Michel, Alice Kamenezky, Laure Petit-Monjanel soprano II
• Aline Quentin, Hélène Richaud, Mathilde Rossignol, Parvati Maeder alto I
• Cécile Banquey, Mathilde Gatouillat, Gisèle Delgoulet, Marion Harache alto II
• Vivien Simon, Léo Guillou-Kérédan, Gabriel Colin, Edouard Monjanel tenor I
• Romain Bazola, Fabrice Foison, Thibaut Jacqmin, Richard Golian tenor II
• Eudes Peyre, Matthieu Le Levreur, Florent Martin, Imanol Iraola bass I
• Maxime Saïu, Bertrand Duby, Arthur Cady, Jean-Christophe Brizard bass II
• Simon-Pierre Bestion musical direction, staging
• Florian Delattre lighting
• Apolline Machefaux technical management