il Pomo d’Oro Choir
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval.
Addition to Programme and Change of Concert Duration
Please note that there has been an addition to the programme for this concert. The concert will now be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval. The programme will now be as below.
Interval
il Pomo d’Oro turns to the solemn splendour of two works written for the Basilica of St Mark’s in Venice. It begins with Giovanni Gabrieli’s setting of the penitential 51st Psalm, with its close-knit web of polyphony for six voices, before entering the sonorous soundworld of Francesco Cavalli’s Missa pro Defunctis, most likely written in the early 1670s for his own funeral. His great Requiem Mass for two choirs of four voices invites deep contemplation of the end of earthly life and the prospect of eternal salvation.