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

Easterat

King’s10 – 17April 2017

King’s College Choir

Academy of Ancient Music

BBC Concert Orchestra

Philharmonia Chorus

Britten Sinfonia

Mark Padmore

Simon Keenlyside

Tom Poster

Jeremy Ovenden

Guy Johnston

JS BachMessiaenBrahmsPalestrinaByrdTallisMendelssohnBruckner

CALENDARWELCOME

Information: www.kings.cam.ac.uk/easter 32 Tickets: 01223 769340 | [email protected]

Monday 10 April 9.00pm Sung Compline page 4

Tuesday 11 April 1.00pm A book at lunchtime: Mariner* page 13

6.30pm JS Bach St Matthew Passion page 6

Wednesday 12 April 1.00pm A book at lunchtime: God-Curious* page 13

7.30pm Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time page 8

9.00pm Sung Compline page 4

Maundy Thursday 13 April5.30pm Sung Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar page 4

7.30pm Love was His Meaning: the Spirituality of Julian of Norwich page 9

Good Friday 14 April10.30am Ante-Communion & Veneration of the Cross page 4

5.30pm Choral Evensong page 5

7.30pm Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem page 10

Holy Saturday 15 April7.30pm JS Bach St John Passion page 11

Easter Sunday 16 April10.30am Sung Eucharist page 5

3.30pm Festal Evensong page 5

Easter Monday 17 April5.30pm Organ Recital page 12

Tickets available via the King’s College Visitor Centre Box Office For full details see page 11

* All events take place in King’s College Chapel unless starred. Starred events will beheld in Keynes Hall. If you’re uncertain about where any event is to take place,please enquire in the Porters’ Lodge.

“Easter at King’s goes from strength to multi-faceted strength”BBC Music Magazine 2013

STEPHEN CLEOBURYArtistic Director (Paul Grover)

REVD DR STEPHEN CHERRYDean

I am delighted to be able to invite you again to our EasterFestival. ‘Easter at King’s’, now in its 13th year, has become well-known not only in Cambridge, but, like the Festival of NineLessons and Carols, around the world. This is not least a result ofthe support of BBC Radio 3, which has broadcast from thefestival annually. This year the microphones will be in Chapel onGood Friday for the Brahms Requiem, in which we are joined byour regular artists, the BBC CO and the Philharmonia Chorus. TheRequiem will be prefaced by a short sequence of seasonal musicsung by the Chapel Choir. It has been our practice to alternatethe two great Passion settings of Bach, but this time, both the StMatthew and St John will be heard, giving a special opportunityfor listeners to compare these monumental works. Purelyinstrumental music is provided through the inclusion ofMessiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, and, with the return ofthe magnificently restored Harrison organ, the resumption of theannual organ recital on Bank Holiday Monday. Transcriptions forthe organ have come into fashion again, and I am particularlylooking forward to hearing Rachmaninoff on the instrument.

As always, the dramatic and moving narrative of Holy Week andEaster is reflected in our regular services, which now include lateevening Compline, sung this year by the choral scholars. Togetherwith Joy Lisney, a graduate musician at King's, they will also beproviding the music for a Maundy Thursday meditation on thework of Julian of Norwich devised by the Dean.

I welcome John McMunn, who has succeeded Sarah Chambre asFestival & Concerts Manager, and I thank not only those in theCollege who are supportive of the Festival, but also, and crucially,our many generous donors, without whose munificence theconcerts could not take place.

Stephen Cleobury CBE, Director of Music and Artistic Director

As Dean I warmly invite you to consider spending some part ofHoly Week or Easter Day with us in our beautiful Chapel.Whether it is for a late night service of Compline, one of ouraustere liturgies of Good Friday, or at one of the wonderfulconcerts, you will be sharing in the most intense and spirituallydeep moments of 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 10 April 9.00pm [finish c.9.45pm]

Sung ComplineKing’s College Choral ScholarsStephen Cherry homilist

Palestrina Peccantem me quotidieLassus Nunc dimittis

Wednesday 12 April 9.00pm [finish c.9.45pm]

Sung ComplineKing’s College Choral ScholarsAndrew Hammond homilist

Byrd Bow thine ear, O Lord Gibbons Nunc dimittis

Maundy Thursday 13 April 5.30pm [finish c.6.40pm]

Sung Eucharistwith Stripping of the AltarKing’s College ChoirStephen Cherry preacher

Rheinberger Mass in E flat Op.109Bruckner Christus factus est

Good Friday 14 April 10.30am [finish c.11.40am]

Ante-Communion and Veneration of the CrossKing’s College Choir

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

Good Friday 14 April 5.30pm [finish c.6.15pm]

Choral EvensongKing’s College Choral Scholars

Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet

Easter Sunday 16 April 10.30am [finish c.12.00 noon]

Sung Eucharist King’s College Choir Andrew Hammond preacher

Schubert Mass in G

Easter Sunday 16 April 3.30pm [finish c.4.30pm]

Festal EvensongKing’s College Choir

Stanford Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in AMascagni Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana

SERVICES SERVICES

4 Tickets: 01223 769340 | [email protected] Information: www.kings.cam.ac.uk/easter 5

Attending ServicesNo tickets are required for any of our Choral 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 11 April 6.30pm [finish c.9.45pm]

JS Bach St Matthew Passion Jeremy Ovenden EvangelistNeal Davies ChristusBrindley Sherratt Pilate/bassKatharine Dain sopranoReginald Mobley altoAnthony Gregory tenor

King’s College ChoirChoristers of St Catharine’s College ChoirAcademy of Ancient Music

Stephen Cleobury conductorKing’s College Choir’s Holy Week performances of JS Bach’s Passionshave become a standard feature of the Cambridge cultural calendar.In 2017, the Choir and Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury, arejoined by the Academy of Ancient Music and a sterling cast ofsoloists for the ‘Great’ St Matthew Passion, a work unparalleled inits ability to evoke the emotional drama of Christ’s betrayal,suffering and crucifixion.

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

JEREMY OVENDEN BRINDLEY SHERRATT (Sussie Ahlburg)

REGINALD MOBLEY (Liz Linder)

NEAL DAVIES (Gerard Collett)

ANTHONY GREGORY (N J Watts)KATHARINE DAIN


KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL

CONCERTS

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CONCERTS

Maundy Thursday 13 April 7.30pm [finish c.9.30pm]

Love was His Meaning –the Spirituality of Julian of Norwich The King’s MenJoy Lisney celloDonald MacLeod readerNicolette Zeeman readerStephen Cherry speakerAlthough lost, hidden or ignored for centuries, the writings ofJulian of Norwich are being rediscovered today as a rich source of theological wisdom and spiritual insight. Readings from Julian’sbook will be introduced and interspersed with music for solo celloand choral pieces by The King’s Men, including William Byrd’s Ne irascaris, Domine.

Tickets £10 (£5 student standby)

Wednesday 12 April 7.30pm [finish c.8.45pm]

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Elena Urioste violinMark Simpson clarinetGuy Johnston celloTom Poster pianoThe Quartet for the End of Time was premiered outdoors, in therain, at the notorious prisoner of war camp, Stalag VIII. Messiaenlater recalled, ‘Never was I listened to listened to with such raptattention and comprehension.’ More than half a century later, thisother-worldly sequence, inspired by a passage from the Book ofRevelation, has lost none of its power to captivate and inspire.Former King’s Chorister Guy Johnston joins rising stars Tom Poster,Mark Simpson and Elena Urioste for an evening of haunting andtransformative musical introspection.

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

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GUY JOHNSTON TOM POSTER (Sussie Ahlburg) MARK SIMPSON (Kaupo Kikkas) JOY LISNEY DONALD MACLEOD (BBC/Jude Edginton)

ELENA URIOSTE (Alessandra Tinozzi)

THE KING’S MEN (Kevin Leighton)

CONCERTSCONCERTS

Holy Saturday 15 April 7.30pm [finish c.9.30pm]

JS Bach St John Passion Mark Padmore Evangelist/directorJacqueline Shave violin/directorBritten Sinfonia VoicesBritten SinfoniaCelebrated tenor and former King’s College Choral Scholar MarkPadmore has gained international acclaim for his interpretations ofJS Bach’s great Passion settings. Bach’s music is ‘an endless journeyof discovery’ for Padmore, who brings an ever-questioninginterpretive sensibility to all his performances. Here he both singswith and directs Britten Sinfonia, interspersing Bach’s dramaticmasterpiece with sacred texts and poetry by TS Eliot, sheddingnew light on this well-known and much-loved work.

*Please note there will be no interval during this performance

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


Good Friday 14 April 7.30pm [finish c.9.30pm]

Ein Deutsches Requiem Sarah-Jane Brandon sopranoSimon Keenlyside baritoneKing’s College ChoirPhilharmonia ChorusBBC Concert OrchestraStephen Cleobury conductor

Mozart Ave verum CorpusBruckner Christus factus est pro nobisMendelssohn Hör mein BittenBrahms Warum ist das Licht gegeben?Brahms Ein Deutsches RequiemBrahms Ein Deutsches Requiem was written not for the dead, but forthe living. The composer himself called it a ‘human’ requiem –other-worldly music to accompany those seeking to transcend thehuman condition. In this performance, the BBC Concert Orchestrajoins forces with the Philharmonia Chorus, whose performances ofBrahms’ beloved masterwork have been acclaimed for their full-bodied, expressive power. Simon Keenlyside and Sarah-JaneBrandon are the accomplished soloists.

Tickets £40, £30, £20, £15 (£5 student standby)This concert will be broadcast live by Radio 3. Please arrive in good time and turn off all audible devices.Latecomers will be admitted after the first movement and should wait quietly by the South Door.

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA (Chris Christodoulou)

MARK PADMORE (Marco-Borgrevv) JACQUELIINE SHAVE

BRITTEN SINFONIA (Harry Rankin)

SIMON KEENLYSIDE SARAH-JANE BRANDON PHILHARMONIA CHORUS

A BOOK AT LUNCHTIME

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CONCERTS


Easter Monday 17 April 5.30pm [finish c.6.45pm]

Organ RecitalThomas Ospital organ

JS Bach Prelude & Fugue in D major BWV532

JS Bach Chorale: ‘Ertöt uns durch dein Güte’ BWV22 (trans. Mendelssohn)

Mozart Fantasia KV608

Rachmaninoff L’ île des morts (trans. Robilliard)

Duruflé Prélude et fugue sur le nom d’Alain Titulaire of the grand organ at St Eustache, Paris and Organist inResidence at the Maison de la Radio France, Thomas Ospital hasquickly earned a place amongst the world’s finest concertorganists. A prize-winner at the Chartres, Darasse, Saragossa andAngers competitions, Ospital presents a varied and dynamicEaster Monday programme on King’s College’s acclaimed Harrison& Harrison, recently significantly refurbished for the first timesince the 1930s.

Tickets £10 (£5 student standby)

Tuesday 11 April 1pm, Keynes Hall [finish c.2pm]

Mariner: a voyage with Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAuthor and priest Malcolm Guite discusses his new bookwith Stephen Cherry, Dean of King’s College.

‘Malcolm Guite has established himself as one of the leadingChristian poets of our time. This positions him to offer a distinctivereading of a poetic giant of the past, ST Coleridge. As expected,Mariner is exceptionally rich, penetrating and absorbing.’Jeremy Begbie, Duke University

Free entry

Wednesday 12 April 1pm, Keynes Hall [finish c.2pm]

God-Curious: exploringeternal questionsStephen Cherry, Dean of King’s College, discusses hisnew book with the publisher Jessica Kingsley.

‘Drawing from the Bible and other texts, Cherry distils thetheological quest into bite-sized units, focusing on ideas thatrelate to a contemporary audience seeking answers to theirhighest questions. “Theology today has a huge and complexagenda, which can perhaps be boiled down to one very shorteternal question: What really matters?”’Publishers Weekly, February 2017

Free entry

STEPHEN CHERRY MALCOLM GUITE (Graham Lacdo)

THOMAS OSPITAL (Jean Radell)

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Cheques should be made payable to ‘Kings College Enterprises Ltd’.Please add your name, address, cheque card number on the rear.Cheques can be left blank with the words, ‘not exceeding £xxxx’ inthe bottom left hand corner, where £xxxx is the total you areprepared to pay. This allows the box office staff to give you the bestavailable seats if your first choice is unavailable.

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Concessionary and discounted ticketsA 50% discount is offered to wheelchair users and registered blindpeople and a companion. We welcome guide dogs.

£5 standby tickets will be available on the door to students andregistered job seekers.

A £2 discount is available to Senior Citizens and those assessed asdisabled.

Please note that all concessions and discounts are subject toavailability, cannot be applied retrospectively, and cannot becombined. Please bring relevant ID to confirm your status.

AccessThe Chapel is wheelchair accessible. Please inform the the King’sVisitor Centre Box Office if you have access requirements so thatyou may be advised on the most appropriate seats.

General information and enquiriesPlease note that tickets are not required for Chapel services.

Once purchased, tickets cannot normally be exchanged or refundedunless the concert is sold out. In cases where this is possible, a 10%handling charge will apply.

All information is correct at the time of going to press. All finishtimes are estimates. We reserve the right to alter performers andprogrammes or events if necessary. Please visit our website forchanges and additional concerts, or provide us with your emailaddress and telephone number so that we are able to contact you inthe unlikely event of a last-minute cancelled performance.

For non-booking related enquiries please contact the Festival &Concerts Manager, John McMunn, by email:[email protected]

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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