Tenebrae

Their fourth Christmas release, BBC Music Magazine Award winning choir Tenebrae return under the expert direction Nigel Short with a sumptuous album of Carols, Hymns and other celebratory works for Christmas.

Tenebrae bring their trademark passion and precision to this live performance of music by J. S. Bach and Sir James MacMillan, to be recorded live at Snape Maltings in May 2023. Renowned for their technical difficulty, Bach’s motets are pillars of the choral repertoire, requiring minute attention to detail as well as a full emotional range. Here, Tenebrae performs the three most well-known of the set, culminating in the joyful Singet dem Herrn. Like Bach, Sir James MacMillan has written much of his music for the church, and his settings of the Tenebrae responsories paint a vivid picture of the events of Holy Week. This album also features the premiere recording of I saw Eternity the other night, which MacMillan composed for Tenebrae in 2021 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the London Bach Society.

Tenebrae return to the sublime music of Tomás Luis de Victoria on Signum with this recording of his timeless Tenebrae Responsories. The works mix the words of the Gospels with other texts commenting on collective suffering written around the 4th century, and would traditionally have been performed as part of a moving service in which candles are slowly extinguished to mark the progress and suffering of Christ that forms the Passion story.

"Ténèbræ" est une saga captivante en quatre tomes qui mêle mystère, fantastique et romance. L'histoire se déroule dans un univers sombre et envoûtant, où des forces mystérieuses s'affrontent et où chaque décision peut bouleverser l'équilibre fragile entre lumière et ténèbres. …

"Ténèbræ" est une saga captivante en quatre tomes qui mêle mystère, fantastique et romance. L'histoire se déroule dans un univers sombre et envoûtant, où des forces mystérieuses s'affrontent et où chaque décision peut bouleverser l'équilibre fragile entre lumière et ténèbres. …