SANSARA: Arvo Pärt at Passiontide
Thursday 10 April 2025
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Global audiences have loved every note of Pärt’s profoundly communicative music; SANSARA choir’s Passiontide concert marks his 90th birthday year with a sequence of his best-loved masterpieces, including Fratres and the heart-rending Stabat Mater. They visit Tudor England too: ‘Not even the words of the prophet sound as sad as my composer,’ wrote a 16th-century fan of Robert White’s beautiful Lamentations.
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Arvo Pärt Solfeggio
Arvo Pärt Summa
Arvo Pärt Nunc Dimittis
Caroline Shaw and the swallow
Arvo Pärt Stabat Mater
Robert White Lamentations a 5
Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine
SANSARA
Fretwork
Tom Herring conductor
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