HOLY Week at All Saints Church in Castleconnell will be celebrated by a public concert of sacred choral music spanning the centuries. Set for Tuesday April 19, Limerick County Arts Office has funded this exceptional evening of sacred music from Plainchant, right through the Renaissance to the 20th century.
The Lassus Scholars are the choir, named after great Renaissance virtuoso Orlando de Lassus (1532-1594). Directed by Ite O’Donovan, their most recent CD is the first recording by an Irish choir, orchestra and soloists of three Mozart Masses.
Organist Trever Selby, known for his work with St Mary’s Cathedral, will accompany The Lassus Scholars in All Saints for their historic programme.
Limerick’s widening band of choral music lovers will relish works by Rennaissance masters such as Palestrina, Victoria (known as the Spanish Palestrina), Lassus, William Byrd. Soar into later eras then on the notes of Mozart, Bruckner, Fauré, Poulenc and others.
“Those who regularly listen into Tim Thurston’s wonderful Sunday Morning programme, ‘Gloria’ on RTE lyric fm, will be familiar with much of this music,” explains programme co-ordinator Tony Rodgers. “Possibly the best known will be Gregorio Allegri’s magnificent ‘Miserere Mei, Deus’ which is generally accepted to be one of the finest examples of Rennaisance polyphony to survive to the present day”.
This Easter concert will take place on Tuesday April 19 at 8pm in Castleconnell’s All Saints’ Church.
