18/03/2023 18:00 - 19:45
Concert in Chapel: St John's Voices - Songs of Farewell
St John's Voices
Songs of Farewell
St John's College Chapel
Saturday 18 March 2023
1800–1945
Ticket Prices: £20.00/£10.00
(Students £10.00/£5.00)
In this concert, we alternate movements from Parry's Songs of Farewell and Victoria's Oficium Defunctorum. These two works, written some three hundred years apart, each express the the heartache and loss for the end of an era. Tomas Luis de Victoria's Requiem was the last piece he published, and is the last significant work in the Siglo de Oro, while Parry wrote his Songs of Farewell at the end of his compositional career, in despair at the destruction of the First World War.