Tenebrae from the Ryedale Festival: R3 Evening concert 24 September 2024

[Pulcinella]

Flagging this concert from the Ryedale Festival.

Mark Forrest introduces a concert given by Tenebrae conducted by Nigel Short of music inspired by the theme of rest. Recorded at the beautiful Ampleforth Abbey on the edge of the North York Moors as part of this year's Ryedale Festival, Tenebrae's programme is built around Herbert Howell's profound and moving Requiem. It draws on a varied and contrasting selection of composers, from Pearsall, Holst and Sullivan to Cecilia McDowall, Caroline Shaw and Richard Rodney Bennett, creating a meditative and atmospheric evening reflecting ideas of deliverance and transcendance.

Highly recommended by our choir director (some unseemly audience coughing aside!).


Part 1

Gustav Holst - The Evening Watch
Cecilia McDowall - Standing as I do before God
Francis Pott - The Souls of the Righteous
Caroline Shaw - and the swallow
Richard Rodney Bennett - A Good-Night
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Rest
Joel Thompson - A Prayer for Deliverance

Interval
From disc:
Herbert Howells - selection from 'Lambert's Clavichord' performed by John Paul (lautenwerck)

Part 2
John Tavener - Song for Athene
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Valiant for Truth
Robert Pearsall - Lay a Garland
Arthur Sullivan - The Long Day Closes
Herbert Howells - Requiem
William Harris - Bring us, O Lord

[Old Grumpy]

Highly recommended by our choir director (some unseemly audience coughing aside!).

Well if one does let riff-raff in!...


...Wasn't me guv!

[Pulcinella]

Well if one does let riff-raff in!...


...Wasn't me guv!

I'm sure it wasn't: we all know how to behave.

He also said that the continuity announcements were made during the concert rather than being spliced in afterwards in the studio.
I wonder if that contributed to audience restlessness.

[Old Grumpy]

I'm sure it wasn't: we all know how to behave.

He also said that the continuity announcements were made during the concert rather than being spliced in afterwards in the studio.
I wonder if that contributed to audience restlessness.

Perhaps - there were some quote long gaps during Mark Forrest's continuity pieces.

Or it could have been the hard nature of the seating

[jonfan]

Looking forward to this. Classics with some newish items. What not to like!! Tenebrae will do them justice.

[hmvman]

Perhaps - there were some quote long gaps during Mark Forrest's continuity pieces.

Or it could have been the hard nature of the seating

The seating in Ampleforth Abbey is incredibly uncomfortable!

[Old Grumpy]

The seating in Ampleforth Abbey is incredibly uncomfortable!

Perhaps it's designed not to be comfortable!

[hmvman]

Perhaps it's designed not to be comfortable!

I'm sure it is (was). It would be difficult to be that uncomfortable by accident.