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Siglo de Oro

The Battle Between Carnival and Lent

The Battle Between Carnival and Lent
Siglo de Oro recalls the contrasts between the sacred and the profane surrounding the penitential season of Lent, helped by a riotous madrigal comedy for the evening of Fat Thursday by the musician and monk Adriano Banchieri and three transcendent Holy Week motets.

Programme:

Adriano Banchieri - Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso Op. 18
Interval
Plainchant - Emendemus in melius
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus
Tomás Luis de Victoria - O vos omnes
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina - Stabat Mater


Full Event Details

Siglo de Oro recalls the contrasts between the sacred and the profane surrounding the penitential season of Lent, helped by a riotous madrigal comedy for the evening of Fat Thursday by the musician and monk Adriano Banchieri and three transcendent Holy Week motets.

Programme:

Adriano Banchieri - Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso Op. 18
Interval
Plainchant - Emendemus in melius
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus
Tomás Luis de Victoria - O vos omnes
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina - Stabat Mater

Venue Details & Map

Location

Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP


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