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Concert: Kantos Chamber Choir – Seven Deadly Sins

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Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.

Join Kantos for a sumptuous feast of musical transgression, choral indulgence, and heart-wrenching pleas for forgiveness with Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir.

The performance will feature world premieres from up-and-coming RNCM student composers Sophie Nolan and Alex Watson, and hair-raising cautionary tales that will make you think twice about straying from the straight and narrow…

Doors 7pm | Performance 7.30pm

The tickets for this performance operate on a Pay What You Can basis; you choose the ticket band that you are able or happy to pay for.

The music:

Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir: Kyrie Eleison & Agnus Dei

Maurice Ravel – Nicolette

Francis Poulenc – Quatre Motets pour un Temps de Pénitence

Pierre Passereau – Il est Bel et Bon

Mélanie Bonis – Ave Verum

Alex Watson – On Envy

Olivier Messiaen – O Sacrum Convivium

Camille Saint-Saëns – Calme des Nuits

Claude Debussy – Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin

Orlando di Lasso – Il estoit une religieuse

Igor Stravinsky – Ave Maria & Pater Noster

Claude Debussy – Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder!

Orlando di Lasso – Timor et Tremor

Sophie Nolan – Ira Vos Totos Consumet

Guest artists:

Sophie Nolan – Composer (RNCM student commission)

Alex Watson – Composer (RNCM student commission)