The Gesualdo Six In Concert

Name: The Gesualdo Six In Concert
Start: 2025-10-23T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 3471 Westheimer Rd, 77027

Schedule

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3471 Westheimer Rd, 77027 | Houston, TX

LUX AETERNA
The Gesualdo Six directed by Owain Park
Thursday, October 23rd | 7:30 PM | St. Luke's UMC Sanctuary
The Gesualdo Six present a poignant, hopeful sequence of sacred music containing radiant choral writing from across the centuries.
Highlights include Tallis’ polyphonic masterpiece, Absterge Domine, alongside the astonishing harmonies of Gesualdo in Plange quasi virgo. Both composers beautifully capture a sense of vulnerability in their works, asking for forgiveness and protection. From more recent times, there is the eﬀortless poetic settings of Joanna Marsh and Richard Rodney Bennett, who call on us to enjoy all that life has to oﬀer. Elsewhere, pieces by Tavener and Morales present a series of questions, seeking reassurance. If you like, this is an uplifting sequence for the souls of the departed, to be heard by those who remember them.
PROGRAM:
Cristóbal de Morales - Parce mihi Domine
John Tavener - Funeral Ikos
Orlande de Lassus - Clamaverunt ad Dominum
Thomas Tallis - Absterge Domine
William Byrd - Peccantem me quotidie
Howard Skempton - And there was war in heaven
Donna McKevitt - Lumen (Nunc Dimittis)
Carlo Gesualdo - Plange quasi virgo
Owain Park - It is finished
Henry Purcell - Thou knowest, Lord
Joanna Marsh - I take thee
Cristóbal de Morales - Lux aeterna (Communio)
Richard Rodney Bennett - A Good-Night
Approximate duration: 1 hour 10 minutes