Dear Congregation
Unfortunately we've been unable to record a Tenebrae service due to illness (not related to COVID-19).
However, Jill MacGregor, our choir director, has provide us with a wonderful series of links to choral music on YouTube, carefully chosen for Tenebrae, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Please enjoy these on the day!
TENEBRAE
Miserere Mei, Deus – Gregorio Allegri (Psalm 51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0
Choir – Tenebrae: conducted by Nigel Short
Filmed at St Bartholomew the Great, London
Miserere Mei, Deus – Gregorio Allegri (Psalm 51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA88AS6Wy_4
The Choir of Claire College, Cambridge conducted by Timothy Brown
THURSDAY 9 APRIL – MAUNDY THURSDAY
Psalm 116:1,2, 12-19 (Recording verses 12-19 only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLgaVSiII7w
Ubi caritas – Ola Gjeilo (b.1978- ) with composer improvising on piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAbp-eLF-Y
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Christ’s love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.
*Ubi Caritas with choral score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3IHBSyZKY
And another interpretation by VOCES8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfJL-fFMbU
A New Commandment – Richard Shephard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzo7stXBcLE
Ave Verum Corpus – William Byrd (Gondwana Chorale, conducted by Carl Crossin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0a2SnMkl9E
Ave Verum Corpus – William Byrd (The Tallis Scholars) – with score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZZMF7SRRo
Ave Verum Corpus – Camille Saint Saens (Handel Choir of Baltimore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1XjWrmbrF4
FRIDAY 10 APRIL GOOD FRIDAY
Psalm 22:1-21 Westminster Abbey Choir (complete Psalm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0TdIbrN14E
Tenebrae facta sunt – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM4vTwtV9g8
Darkness fell when the Jews crucified Jesus:
and about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice:
‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’
And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost.
Jesus cried with a loud voice and said,
‘Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.’
And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost.
…and from the same CD recording of the Voices of Ascension Choir, by Palestrina
Tenebrae facta sunt – Palestrina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5lkvMKyCg
Nolo Mortem Peccatoris – Thomas Morley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Iu-LSPvdY
An archival recording from Guildford Cathedral, but very expressive.
Nolo mortem peccatoris; haec sunt verba Salvatoris.
[I do not wish the death of a sinner; these are the words of the Saviour.]
Bach – Erbarme dich, mein Gott from St Matthew Passion BWV 244 | Netherlands Bach Society conducted by Jos van Veldhoven. Soloists: Tim Mead (Alto), Shunske Sato (violin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zry9dpM1_n4
Have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears.
Look at me - heart and eyes weep bitterly before you.
Have mercy, have mercy!
Bach – Erbarme dich, mein Gott from St Matthew Passion BWV 244
Lebanese contralto, Fadia Tomb el-Hage’s interpretation in Arabic. Warm, tender, earthy, rich and dramatic - and perhaps Arabic is much closer in sound to the language Jesus spoke than Bach’s German.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZzxLJGrru0
Bach – Erbarme dich, mein Gott
French Contralto and Conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann’s interpretation. Nathalie is the founder/conductor of the chamber orchestra in this recording, Orfeo 55.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeil9S2exIU
Bach – Erbarme dich, mein Gott A beautiful interpretation by Christa Ludwig, with conductor, Otto Klemperer, 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2XUaCWezRY
Circumdederunt me – Cristóbal de Morales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b_54wI7yzU
“The sorrows of death surrounded me.
The sorrows of hell encompassed me.”
Circumdederunt me – Cristóbal de Morales (with score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvotDuzYZA
The Reproaches – Tomás Luis de Victoria - From the CD Pange Lingua Gloriosi - Choral Music for Holy Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAfoo9UtQEM
Family group, Clamavi De Profundis, sings this interpretation in Latin, however the translations are embedded simultaneously with the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i1VMXEMPzM
A unique arrangement sung by the Kings Singers - with score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH8t5BKI7Qg
Loving Lamb - From the CD Pange Lingua Gloriosi - Choral Music for Holy Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2bf0-e2Y8
SUNDAY 12 APRIL EASTER DAY
Christians, Praise the Paschal Victim (Victimae Paschali)
The Schola Cantorum of St. Peter the Apostle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biToVpwMWgw
Psalm 118:1,2,14-24 (link has complete psalm – not our setting, but lovely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE0Zak8KBMM
This is the day – Anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpr2_vH9YY
O Sons and Daughters – Walford Davies (from Moscow Cathedral Choir)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlrni-vRe2s
Wondrous Love – William Walker from the CDPange Lingua Gloriosi - Choral Music for Holy Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQZO_yPPOn4
Sicut Cervus – G. P. da Palestrina (The Cambridge Singers – with score.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd5EE0hAB8
Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God.
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BONUS LINKS – for your enjoyment
FOR THE COMPLETE ST MATTHEW PASSION – DIVINE!
https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-244/
LINK TO all tracks of CD PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSI - Choral Music for Holy Week
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGKKVjhnWNEHPip0u-lUiGpMevX9jzX0A
Miserere mei, Deus (Allegri) | Nordstrand Church Choir | Aksel Rykkvin (12y treble)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmUw-zyklYQ
Good Friday live service broadcast by NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) from Nordstrand Lutheran church in Oslo, Norway. Nordstrand Church Choir (Nordstrand kirkekor), conducted by Liv Marie Hofseth, treble soloist – 12 year old Aksel Rykkvin
Into the woods – Richard Shephard
Two-part with score – on the well-loved poem by Sidney Lanier.