NDEX CANTORUM

INDEX CANTORUM

St Patrick’s Church, Soho Square, London W1
8 pm Sunday 18th June 2000

INDEX CANTORUM

Director: Mark Williams

Sheppard	Libera nos, Salva nos I
Palestrina	O vera suma sempiterna Trinitas
Gombert	Lugebat David Absalon
Gallus	O beata Trinitas
Bruckner	Ave Maria
Taverner	Credo, from Mass ‘Gloria Tibi Trinitas’

INTERVAL 15 minutes

Sheppard	Libera nos, Salva nos II
Taverner	Sanctus, Benedictus, from Mass ‘Gloria Tibi Trinitas’
Victoria	Duo Seraphim
Bairstow	Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Rachmaninov	Ave Maria
Tavener	Hymn to the Mother of God
Holst	Nunc Dimittis

Tonight’s concert sets out to explore to the full the spacious and resonant acoustic of St Patrick’s Church. Much of the music in the programme was originally written for the great churches and cathedrals of Europe, and tonight aims to recreate the majestic full choral sonorities that would have been heard on first performance. Although INDEX CANTORUM’s previous concerts have centred on Renaissance music, we take here the opportunity to perform in addition works written in the 20^th Century. Today is also Trinity Sunday, a feast day that has special significance within England; Trinity Sunday has been a calendar marker for the Church year, university terms and law courts. Music for the day has always been traditionally lavish, and a selection of the finest European examples is given special prominence in the works chosen.