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The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Tewkesbury
Lead, Kindly Light
Part of the The Choral Pilgrimage 2026 Season
Add to my Calendar 12-09-2026 19:30 12-09-2026 21:30 36 The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Tewkesbury Spain’s Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. The range of emotion covered by composers in the Spanish Renaissance is demonstrated beautifully in the selected works by Cristóbal de Morales and Sebastián de Vivanco that form the basis of this Choral Pilgrimage: Lead, Kindly Light. These works are complemented by settings of words by two poems from Saint John Henry Newman: Sir James MacMillan’s Nothing in Vain, and the world premiere of Kerensa Briggs’ Lead, Kindly Light, specially commissioned for the Choral Pilgrimage. Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Tewkesbury Abbey
Church Street
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
GL20 5RZ
England
Programme
Sebastián de Vivanco – Christus factus est pro nobis
Cristóbal de Morales – Emendemus in melius
Sebastián de Vivanco – Assumpta est Maria
Cristóbal de Morales – Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas
Kerensa Briggs – Lead, kindly light (new commission)
Sebastián de Vivanco – Magnificat Octavi toni
Cristóbal de Morales – Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Sebastián de Vivanco – O quam suavis est, Domine
Cristóbal de Morales – Exaltata est sancta Dei Genetrix
Cristóbal de Morales – Lamentabatur Jacob
Sebastián de Vivanco – Caritas Pater est
James MacMillan – Nothing in vain
Performers
Harry Christophers – Conductor
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Programme Note
Spain’s Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. The range of emotion covered by composers in the Spanish Renaissance is demonstrated beautifully in the selected works by Cristóbal de Morales and Sebastián de Vivanco that form the basis of this Choral Pilgrimage: Lead, Kindly Light.
These works are complemented by settings of words by two poems from Saint John Henry Newman: Sir James MacMillan’s Nothing in Vain, and the world premiere of Kerensa Briggs’ Lead, Kindly Light, specially commissioned for the Choral Pilgrimage.
