Easterat King · Poulenc Lenten Motets Lassus Stabat Mater Tallis De lamentatione Ieremiae Prophetae ... peerless trio of soloists alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra and

A festival of services and concertsfor Holy Week and Easter Artistic Director: Stephen Cleobury

Easterat

King’s26 March-2 April 2018

The Choir of King’s College

Academy of Ancient Music

BBC Concert Orchestra

Philharmonia Chorus

Joy Lisney

Nicholas Mulroy

Brenden Gunnell

William Whitehead

ZRI

JS BachElgarBrahmsPalestrinaPärtTallisBeethoven

CALENDARWELCOME

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Monday 26 March PAGE

9.30pm Sung Compline 4

Tuesday 27 March 7.30pm JS Bach St John Passion 6

Wednesday 28 March 7.30pm Joy & James Lisney 8

9.30pm Sung Compline 4

Maundy Thursday 29 March4.00pm In Conversation: Klaas Smelik & Helen Weinstein 13

5.30pm Sung Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar 4

7.30pm ‘Blazing Harmonies’: the spirit of Etty Hillesum 9

Good Friday 30 March10.30am Ante-Communion & Veneration of the Cross 5

5.30pm Choral Evensong 5

7.30pm Elgar The Dream of Gerontius 10

Holy Saturday 31 March12.30pm In Conversation: Sally Vickers & Rowan Williams 13

7.30pm The Choir of King’s College 11

Easter Sunday 1 April10.30am Sung Eucharist 5

3.30pm Festal Evensong 5

Easter Monday 2 April5.30pm Grand Organ Recital 12

Tickets available via the King’s College Visitor Centre Box Office For full details see page 15 All events take place in King’s College Chapel, except In conversation with Klaas Smelik,Director of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre on Thursday 29 March, which will be held inthe Chetwynd Room, King’s College; and Sally Vickers and Rowan Williams on Saturday 31March, which will be held in Keynes Hall, King’s College.

“Easter at King’s goes from strengthto multi-faceted strength” BBC Music Magazine

STEPHEN CLEOBURYArtistic Director (Paul Grover)

REVD DR STEPHEN CHERRYDean

Welcome to Easter at King’s, now in its fourteenth year. Onceagain our Holy Week and Easter liturgies are complemented byconcerts of seasonal music.

An annual favourite is the Bach Passion performance in whichthe Choir is joined by the Academy of Ancient Music and a finearray of soloists. Regular visitors in recent years have been thePhilharmonia Chorus and the BBC Concert Orchestra, who willbe here again on Good Friday for Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius,which will be relayed by the BBC. There has been at least onebroadcast from Easter at King’s in every year since its inception,and we are deeply grateful to the BBC for supporting the eventin this way.

This year the Choir has its own concert, which includes Tallis’sThe Lamentations of Jeremiah and music by Brahms and Poulenc,as well as two great settings of the Stabat Mater, those ofPalestrina and Lassus (compare and contrast!). King’s graduatestudent, cellist Joy Lisney, accompanied by her father, offers aninstrument programme and the Dean celebrates Etty Hillesum.The traditional Easter Monday afternoon organ recital is given byWilliam Whitehead.

I am grateful, as always, to our donors, without whom thefestival would not be possible, to John McMunn, who deals witha considerable administrative load in managing the concerts, toEmma Disley, editor of the programme book, and to the Deanfor his willing support.

Stephen Cleobury CBE, Director of Music and Artistic Director

I warmly invite you to consider spending some part of HolyWeek or Easter Day with us in our beautiful Chapel. Whether itis for a late night service of Compline, one of our austereliturgies of Good Friday, or at one of the wonderful concerts, youwill be sharing in the most intense and spiritually deep momentsof the Christian year in a place of stunning beauty.

Holy Week and Easter touch the depths as well as the heights ofhuman hope and experience, and together make up anextraordinary journey into God’s reality where wisdom, mercyand love are the primary values.

So do join us. Come for the music, come for the words, come forthe inspiration and come for the beauty. Come to share insomething spiritual and special, something healing and holy.Come for the sheer enjoyment – and keep your mind and heartopen so that you might be moved and perhaps even a littlechanged by your experience.

The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry, Dean

Monday 26 March 9.30pm [finish c.10.15pm]

Sung ComplineThe Choral Scholars of King’s CollegeStephen Cherry homilist

Lassus Nunc dimittis quarto toniPalestrina Peccantem me quotidie

Wednesday 28 March 9.30pm [finish c.10.15pm]

Sung ComplineThe Choral Scholars of King’s CollegeAndrew Hammond homilist

Sheppard Nunc dimittis (First Service)Sheppard In manus tuas

Maundy Thursday 29 March 5.30pm [finish c.6.40pm]

Sung Eucharistwith Stripping of the AltarThe Choir of King’s College

Victoria Missa ‘O quam gloriosum est regnum’Palestrina Dextera Domini

Good Friday 30 March 10.30am [finish c.11.40am]

Ante-Communion and Veneration of the CrossThe Choir of King’s College

Allegri Miserere mei, DeusVictoria St John Passion King John IV of Portugal Crux fidelis

Good Friday 30 March 5.30pm [finish c.6.15pm]

Choral EvensongThe Choral Scholars of King’s College

Byrd Ne irascaris, DomineCivitas sancti tui

Easter Sunday 1 April 10.30am [finish c.12.00 noon]

Sung Eucharist The Choir of King’s College Stephen Cherry homilist

Mozart Missa brevis in D K194

Easter Sunday 1 April 3.30pm [finish c.4.30pm]

Festal EvensongThe Choir of King’s College

Stanford Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in AHandel Worthy is the Lamb

SERVICES SERVICES

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Attending ServicesNo tickets are required for any of our Chapel services. Doors open 15minutes before services begin. There is no requirement to queueahead of that but in practice a queue often forms well in advance,especially on Good Friday and Easter Day. Please follow the guidanceof College staff on duty. Our Services are Anglican, but people of allfaiths and none are most welcome.

KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR (Kevin Leighton)

KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR (Kevin Leighton)

CONCERTS CONCERTS

Tuesday 27 March 7.30pm [finish c.9.45pm]

JS Bach St John Passion Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist/tenorNeal Davies ChristusAnna Dennis sopranoDavid Allsopp altoWilliam Gaunt bass

The Choir of King’s CollegeAcademy of Ancient Music

Stephen Cleobury conductorEaster at King’s begins with a Passiontide performance of JS Bach’sSt John Passion. ‘More daring, forceful and poetic’ than theexpansive St Matthew Passion, according to Robert Schumann, theSt John is a work of almost operatic vividness, bringing both ahumanity and a painful immediacy to the Passion narrative.Stephen Cleobury conducts the Choir of King’s College, theAcademy of Ancient Music, and a sterling cast led byinternationally renowned Evangelist, Nicholas Mulroy.

Tickets £40, £30, £20, £15 (£5 student standby, concessions available)

NICHOLAS MULROY (Raphaelle Photog.) NEAL DAVIES (Gerard Collett)

WILLIAM GAUNT

ANNA DENNIS (Sebastian Alexander Hinds)

STEPHEN CLEOBURY (Kevin Leighton)DAVID ALLSOPP


CONCERTS

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CONCERTS


‘Blazing Harmonies’: thespirit of Etty Hillesum Ben Harlan clarinet Matthew Sharp celloJon Banks accordionIris Pissaride santouriDonald Macleod narrator

The wartime diaries of Etty Hillesum are increasingly widely admiredfor their searing honesty and integrity, and their astonishing insights.As circumstances and personality force Etty to find God withinherself, she also finds new depths of love and beauty. Readings fromthe diaries are interspersed with dynamic improvisations from theacclaimed group ZRI to forge a powerful and memorable presentationof her spirit, devised by Stephen Cherry, Dean of King’s College.

Tickets £12.50, £5 students (concessions available)

Wednesday 28 March 7.30pm [finish c.9.00pm]

Joy & James Lisney Joy Lisney celloJames Lisney piano

JS Bach Ciacona in D minorBeethoven Sonata in A Op.69Britten Suite No.3 Op.87Pärt Spiegel im SpiegelCurrent King’s College graduate student, Joy Lisney, is one of themost exciting young musicians to emerge in recent years, in acareer combining the cello with composition and conducting.Alongside acclaimed concert pianist James Lisney, she presents ameditative evening of chamber music by JS Bach, Beethoven andBritten, culminating in Arvo Pärt’s spellbinding Spiegel im Spiegel.


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JOY LISNEY ETTY HILLESUM

ZRI

DONALD MACLEOD (BBC/Jude Edginton)

CONCERTSCONCERTS

Holy Saturday 31 March 7.30pm [finish c.9.30pm]

The Choir of King’s CollegeThe Choir of King’s College

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Palestrina Stabat MaterTallis Incipit lamentatione Ieremiae ProphetaePoulenc Lenten MotetsLassus Stabat MaterTallis De lamentatione Ieremiae ProphetaeBrahms Warum ist das Licht gegeben?Brahms Schaffe in mir, Gott

The events of Lent and Holy Week have inspired composers overthe centuries to write some of their most profound and enduringworks. In this choral recital, Stephen Cleobury conducts the Choirof King’s College in two great settings of the Stabat Mater byPalestrina and Lassus, Tallis’ dramatic Lamentations of Jeremiah andseasonal motets by Brahms and Poulenc.

Tickets £35, £27, £22, £15 (£5 student standby)


Good Friday 30 March 7.30pm [finish c.9.30pm]

The Dream of Gerontius Brenden Gunnell tenorKathryn Rudge mezzo-sopranoHenry Waddington baritone

Philharmonia ChorusBBC Concert Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Elgar The Dream of GerontiusEdward Elgar’s remarkable setting of John Henry Newman’s TheDream of Gerontius displays an eclectic range of influences – fromWagner to Verdi – and yet achieves a dramatic and musical unityunsurpassed in his choral output.

The soul’s journey, through death and judgement to purgatory withthe promise of a final re-awakening to glory, are told here by apeerless trio of soloists alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra andthe Philharmonia Chorus. Easter at King’s Artistic Director StephenCleobury conducts.This concert will be broadcast live by Radio 3. Please arrive in good time and turn off all audible devices.Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable moment and should wait quietly by the South Door.

Tickets £40, £30, £20, £15 (£5 student standby, concessions available)

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA (Chris Christodoulou)

BRENDEN GUNNELL KATHRYN RUDGE HENRY WADDINGTON (Gerald Collett) KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR (Kevin Leighton)

OTHER EVENTS

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CONCERTS


Easter Monday 2 April 5.30pm [finish c.6.45pm]

Grand Organ RecitalWilliam Whitehead organ

Parry Fantasia and Fugue in G, Op.188

Schumann Mässig, doch nicht zu langsam & Lebhaftfrom Six Fugues on BACH Op.60

Liszt Fantasia on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’

JS Bach Orgelbüchlein and new works from theOrgelbüchlein Project by Jackson andPlanyavsky (world premiere)

Easter at King’s closes with a recital given by William Whitehead,winner of the Odense International Organ Competition andcurator of the Orgelbüchlein Project, a major internationalcomposition project to complete JS Bach’s Orgelbüchlein (LittleOrgan Book). Seasonal chorale preludes by JS Bach interminglewith new works by Gabriel Jackson and Peter Planyavsky, in asequence culminating in Liszt’s gothic masterpiece ‘Ad nos, adsalutarem undam’.



In Conversation with the Dean:Klaas Smelik & Helen Weinstein in the Chetwynd Room, King’s College

Director of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre, Klaas Smelik,illustrates Etty’s life and writings in conversation with HelenWeinstein, Stephen Cherry and musician Jon Banks ahead of theevening’s musical event in King’s College Chapel.

Free entry

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD

STEPHEN CHERRY HELEN WEINSTEIN (Ian Martindale) KLAAS SMELIK

Holy Saturday 31 March 12.30pm [finish c.2.00pm]

In Conversation with the Dean:Sally Vickers & Rowan Williams in Keynes Hall, King’s College

Sally Vickers’ 2016 novel, Cousins, explores many issues ofspirituality and ethics in ways that resonate with the season ofEaster and question the application of faith in everyday life.Author and theologians explore both the novel and the issues itopens up for fresh discussion.

Free entry

ROWAN WILLIAMS SALLY VICKERS

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Easter at King’s is promoted by King’s College and ismade possible with the support of the Provost andFellows of King’s College.

King’s College acknowledges the generous supportof BBC Radio 3, Artemis Investment ManagementLLP and countless others, without whose assistancethe series would not be possible. A complete list ofsupporters will appear in the Easter at King’ssouvenir programme.

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Easterat King · Poulenc Lenten Motets Lassus Stabat Mater Tallis De lamentatione Ieremiae Prophetae ... peerless trio of soloists alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra and