The highly-acclaimed early music ensemble Stile Antico present Passion and Resurrection, a musical journey through the events of Holy Week.

The liturgical season of Lent culminates in Holy Week - a time of intense devotion, centred around the Passion of Jesus Christ. Our programme traces the key events of the Passion, from Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and His institution of the Eucharist, to the agonies of his crucifixion on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter morning. At the centre of this sequence of English and Continental masterpieces is a newly composed setting by John McCabe of the mediaeval text "Woefully Arrayed", commissioned specially for Stile Antico by the Three Choirs Festival, and given its premiere here.

PALM SUNDAY
Gibbons Hosanna to the Son of David

MAUNDY THURSDAY
Tallis O Sacrum Convivium
Gibbons O Lord, in thy wrath

GOOD FRIDAY
Cornysh Woefully Arrayed
Victoria O vos omnes
Morales O crux, ave
John IV of Portugal Crux Fidelis
John McCabe Woefully Arrayed (world premiere - Supported by Mr Jesse Norman)


HOLY SATURDAY
Taverner Dum transisset sabbatum

EASTER SUNDAY
Byrd Haec dies
Gibbons I am the Resurrection and the Life
Byrd In resurrectione tua