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Thursday 19 September 2024, 9:00 pm
Festival Compline service
A meditative choral Compline service by candlelight in the gorgeous setting of Gidleigh Church.
Compline is a contemplative church service for the end of the day, characterised by melodious threads of medieval plainchant and prayers for a peaceful night. As well as singing the plainchant, Ensemble-in-Residence Corvus Consort also performs choral motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Thomas Tallis and Josef Rheinberger.
The service will open with an instrumental prelude composed specially for this event by WAF 2024 Composer-in-Residence Sun Keting, performed by the Festival String Quartet.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Salva nos, Domine
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Te lucis ante terminum
Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Abendlied