Name: La Nuova Musica: Leçons des ténèbres
Start: 2015-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Village Underground

Admin

Spitalfields Summer Festival

Conductor

David Bates

Soprano

Lucy Crowe

Elizabeth Watts

Sopran II

Instrumentalist

Sabine Stoffer

Violin

Jonathan Rees

Viola da Gamba

Organ

La Nuova Musica: Leçons des ténèbres

London

United Kingdom

Village Underground

Public

Lessons of Darkness

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Couperin’s Leçons des ténèbres (Lessons from Tenebrae) was originally presented in the Parisian Abbey de Longchamp. Performed by the operatic stars of the day, it fused the dramatic and the devotional.

Using wild and emotive biblical texts describing Jerusalem’s desolation and sumptuous harmonies, the piece was the centrepiece of the Christian service of Tenebrae, a night-time service in which candles are gradually extinguished, plunging the church into darkness.

In this late-evening performance Associate Artists La Nuova Musica are joined by renowned sopranos Lucy Crowe and Elizabeth Watts for a sensitive and intimate performance in the haunting surroundings of Village Underground.

English

La Nuova Musica: Leçons des ténèbres by Couperin, Lua 08 Méit 2015, Ó (2015/2015), Seoltóir David Bates, Village Underground, London, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid