Skylark: Seven Words From the Cross [Blu-ray]

Seven Words from the Cross, is a diverse and innovative program of music for Good Friday, pairing music from the United States with choral music from other parts of the world. This highly original album progresses through the scriptural seven last words of Christ on the Cross, pairing the music of William Billings and the Sacred Harp with the music of contemporary composers Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. In conjunction with this March 2018 release on the Sono Luminus label, Skylark will make its international debut at Tenebrae’s Holy Week Festival at St. John’s Smith Square in London. Skylark will be the only international group featured alongside the greatest choirs of the UK, including Tenebrae, Polyphony, the Tallis Scholars, and the Gabrieli Consort.

Треклист:
Traditional
1. Were you there?
William Billings
2. When Jesus wept
Traditional; John Newton
3. New Britain ('Amazing Grace')
Traditional; Robert Shaw/Alice Parker
4. Wondrous Love
William Billings
5. Jordan ('There is a land of pure delight’)
Hugo Distler
Geistliche Chormusik, op. 12:
6. Ich wollt, daß ich daheime wär
Hildegard von Bingen
7. Karitas Abundat
Frederick Buckley; M. A. Neuville
8. Break it Gently to my Mother
William Billings
9. David's Lamentation
Francis Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, FP 97:
10. Vinea mea electa
William Billings
11. Plymton ('In deep distress I oft have cried')
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
12. Þann heilaga kross
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
13. Death may dissolve (Fantasia on a hymn by William Billings)
Traditional; Gerre Hancock
14. Deep River
John Sheppard
15. In manus tuas
William Bradbury; Charlotte Elliott
16. Just as I am