Le Labyrinthe: Leçons de Ténèbres et Miserere
Fri 31 Mar, 2023, 7:30pm
St Paul’s College Chapel
University of Sydney
9 City Road, Camperdown
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Don't miss this special guided listening experience - one night only!
Venture into the labyrinth and discover your own path to enlightenment this Easter!
When | Fri 31 Mar, 7:30pm
Where | St Paul’s College, Sydney
What | de Lalande’s ‘Leçons de Ténèbres’ & Miserere
Who | Anna Fraser (soprano), Thomas Wilson (organ)
with associate artists, the female choristers from Sydney University’s St Paul’s College directed by Jack Stephens. And our spiritual guide, St Paul's College Chaplain, Rev. Antony Weiss
Beautiful, gentle, introvert sacred music from the French Baroque of great style and grace performed by soprano and organ interspersed with original chant uniquely composed ‘pour les dames de l’Assomption et chantez par Mesdemoiselles De la Lande à l’admiration de tout Paris’ (for the ladies of the convent of the Assumption and sung by the Misses De la Lande to the admiration of the Parisian élite).
Venture into the labyrinth and discover your own path to enlightenment this Easter. Join us on a sumptuous and spiritual journey showcasing this beautiful and rarely heard French Baroque vocal work in the reflective and historically inspiring acoustic and environs of St Paul’s College, Sydney. Anna Fraser (soprano) and Thomas Wilson (organ) are delighted to present Michel-Richard de Lalande’s ‘Leçons de Ténèbres’ and Miserere on Fri 31 Mar, 7:30pm with associate artists, the female choristers from Sydney University’s St Paul’s College directed by Jack Stephens.
Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)
(Published 1730)
Ille Leçon pour le mercredy
Ille Leçon pour le jeudy
Ille Leçon pour le vendredy
Miserere à voix seule
“Let us put all our good and bad thoughts, affections, passions, vibes, and virtues all mixed together into the alembic of our understanding. Place it then upon the memory and recollection of the eternal fire as if upon a furnace, and we shall see some marvellous subtle effects. This fiery cogitation will separate the confused elements, the hullabaloo of ambition, the earth of greed and lust, the winds of vanity, the waters of covetousness, the air of presumptions. It will dissipate all these follies, destroy the dregs and lees of a thousand earthly desires, in order to extract beautiful and completely heavenly conceptions from them … it will dissolve all our vices and sins, and extract from our souls a quintessence of piety and devotion … Now then, isn’t this a fine chymistry?”