Origins explores the Renaissance’s greatest hits like Allegri’s Miserere, Byrd’s Mass for Five, and more, alongside their re-imagined works by today’s most exciting living composers.

Program:
Hildegard von Bingen — Ave generosa
William Byrd — Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams — Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
William Byrd — Kyrie from Mass for Five Voices
Roxanna Panufnik — Kyrie After Byrd
Gregorio Allegri — Miserere mei, Deus
James MacMillan — Miserere

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William Byrd — Ne irascaris
Nico Mulhy — Fallings
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Stabat mater
Kerensa Briggs — Stabat mater
Margaret Rizza — Ave generosa

Origins explores the Renaissance’s greatest hits like Allegri’s Miserere, Byrd’s Mass for Five, and more, alongside their re-imagined works by today’s most exciting living composers.

Program:
Hildegard von Bingen — Ave generosa
William Byrd — Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams — Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
William Byrd — Kyrie from Mass for Five Voices
Roxanna Panufnik — Kyrie After Byrd
Gregorio Allegri — Miserere mei, Deus
James MacMillan — Miserere

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William Byrd — Ne irascaris
Nico Mulhy — Fallings
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Stabat mater
Kerensa Briggs — Stabat mater
Margaret Rizza — Ave generosa

Origins explores the Renaissance’s greatest hits like Allegri’s Miserere, Byrd’s Mass for Five, and more, alongside their re-imagined works by today’s most exciting living composers.

Program:
Hildegard von Bingen — Ave generosa
William Byrd — Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams — Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
William Byrd — Kyrie from Mass for Five Voices
Roxanna Panufnik — Kyrie After Byrd
Gregorio Allegri — Miserere mei, Deus
James MacMillan — Miserere

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William Byrd — Ne irascaris
Nico Mulhy — Fallings
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Stabat mater
Kerensa Briggs — Stabat mater
Margaret Rizza — Ave generosa

Origins explores the Renaissance’s greatest hits like Allegri’s Miserere, Byrd’s Mass for Five, and more, alongside their re-imagined works by today’s most exciting living composers.

Program:
Hildegard von Bingen — Ave generosa
William Byrd — Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams — Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
William Byrd — Kyrie from Mass for Five Voices
Roxanna Panufnik — Kyrie After Byrd
Gregorio Allegri — Miserere mei, Deus
James MacMillan — Miserere

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William Byrd — Ne irascaris
Nico Mulhy — Fallings
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Stabat mater
Kerensa Briggs — Stabat mater
Margaret Rizza — Ave generosa

Our season opens with four cantatas that display Bach’s artful inventiveness with the chorale melody, evinced in the carefully wrought musical architecture he builds within and around each. Together they lead us on a musical odyssey—from anticipation to plea, vigilance to fulfilled joy. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, begins with a regal Advent invocation, shaped by an introductory French‑overture movement. At the program’s center stands the rarely heard Nimm von uns, Herr, BWV 101, a strict chorale‑cantata whose unusually sharp dissonances make Bach’s “Vater unser” plea strikingly intense. Wachet auf, BWV 140, offers both animated and serene readiness in its similar chorale-based approach. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, concludes the program with joyful assurance, framing each part with the same chorale melody now cherished as “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”

Tallis, Barber & Britten

Composition is a process in which fragments of the past are infused with fresh genius, creating something wholly new. Barber’s Reincarnations transfigures James Stephen’s Irish lyric poems evoking intense love, tragic grief, and the pastoral into songs of expressive intensity. With distance from Barber’s life, the composer is increasingly recognized as one of the finest American composers of that time. Despite the depression, alcoholism, and financial ruin that characterized the end of his life, his music sings on.

Thomas Tallis likely wrote his extended votive antiphon Ave rosa sine spinis early in his career, during the reign of Henry VIII. His output spanned the religious and political upheavals inherent in serving not only that single Reformation-era monarch, but Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I as well—as seen in the astonishing variety in his church music, which ranges from ebullient and ornate Latin motets to music of austere beauty in the English language. Ave rosa sine spinis reflects a shining moment in which the political climate permitted richly ornate music of devotion, resulting in an overflowing of musical scale and possibility.

Join The Thirteen for an exploration of some of our most beloved English-language composers in a display of virtuosity and artistry.

Tallis, Barber & Britten

Composition is a process in which fragments of the past are infused with fresh genius, creating something wholly new. Barber’s Reincarnations transfigures James Stephen’s Irish lyric poems evoking intense love, tragic grief, and the pastoral into songs of expressive intensity. With distance from Barber’s life, the composer is increasingly recognized as one of the finest American composers of that time. Despite the depression, alcoholism, and financial ruin that characterized the end of his life, his music sings on.

Thomas Tallis likely wrote his extended votive antiphon Ave rosa sine spinis early in his career, during the reign of Henry VIII. His output spanned the religious and political upheavals inherent in serving not only that single Reformation-era monarch, but Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I as well—as seen in the astonishing variety in his church music, which ranges from ebullient and ornate Latin motets to music of austere beauty in the English language. Ave rosa sine spinis reflects a shining moment in which the political climate permitted richly ornate music of devotion, resulting in an overflowing of musical scale and possibility.

Join The Thirteen for an exploration of some of our most beloved English-language composers in a display of virtuosity and artistry.

Tallis, Barber & Britten

Composition is a process in which fragments of the past are infused with fresh genius, creating something wholly new. Barber’s Reincarnations transfigures James Stephen’s Irish lyric poems evoking intense love, tragic grief, and the pastoral into songs of expressive intensity. With distance from Barber’s life, the composer is increasingly recognized as one of the finest American composers of that time. Despite the depression, alcoholism, and financial ruin that characterized the end of his life, his music sings on.

Thomas Tallis likely wrote his extended votive antiphon Ave rosa sine spinis early in his career, during the reign of Henry VIII. His output spanned the religious and political upheavals inherent in serving not only that single Reformation-era monarch, but Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I as well—as seen in the astonishing variety in his church music, which ranges from ebullient and ornate Latin motets to music of austere beauty in the English language. Ave rosa sine spinis reflects a shining moment in which the political climate permitted richly ornate music of devotion, resulting in an overflowing of musical scale and possibility.

Join The Thirteen for an exploration of some of our most beloved English-language composers in a display of virtuosity and artistry.

Seraphic Fire celebrates the rich tradition of music written for men’s voices. This spirited and powerful program traces more than 1,000 years of repertoire, from Renaissance madrigals and Romantic part-songs to folk traditions. Along the way, audiences will hear the vibrant colors of Poulenc’s Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue. Folk songs such as Loch Lomond and Danny Boy bring warmth, humor, and camaraderie, creating an unforgettable evening that celebrates the depth, power, and brotherhood of men’s choral singing.

Seraphic Fire celebrates the rich tradition of music written for men’s voices. This spirited and powerful program traces more than 1,000 years of repertoire, from Renaissance madrigals and Romantic part-songs to folk traditions. Along the way, audiences will hear the vibrant colors of Poulenc’s Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue. Folk songs such as Loch Lomond and Danny Boy bring warmth, humor, and camaraderie, creating an unforgettable evening that celebrates the depth, power, and brotherhood of men’s choral singing.

Seraphic Fire celebrates the rich tradition of music written for men’s voices. This spirited and powerful program traces more than 1,000 years of repertoire, from Renaissance madrigals and Romantic part-songs to folk traditions. Along the way, audiences will hear the vibrant colors of Poulenc’s Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue. Folk songs such as Loch Lomond and Danny Boy bring warmth, humor, and camaraderie, creating an unforgettable evening that celebrates the depth, power, and brotherhood of men’s choral singing.

Seraphic Fire celebrates the rich tradition of music written for men’s voices. This spirited and powerful program traces more than 1,000 years of repertoire, from Renaissance madrigals and Romantic part-songs to folk traditions. Along the way, audiences will hear the vibrant colors of Poulenc’s Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue. Folk songs such as Loch Lomond and Danny Boy bring warmth, humor, and camaraderie, creating an unforgettable evening that celebrates the depth, power, and brotherhood of men’s choral singing.

Joby Talbot | Path of Miracles
Immersive projections by Camilla Tassi

In Path of Miracles, British composer Joby Talbot takes the listener on a musical journey along the mystical Camino de Santiago de Compostela—literally, St. James of the Field of Stars. The work vibrates with the footfalls of the pilgrims who have walked this path for millennia, its four movements marking the major stages of the Camino.

In Path of Miracles, Talbot weaves together medieval texts in multiple languages with musical styles as far-ranging as those of Taiwanese Bunun people, creating a sonic tapestry in which past and present sound together, an extended ‘thin space’ where the human and the divine meet. Paired with projected images of the cosmos, The Thirteen’s performances of Path of Miracles promise to be replete with beauty and wonder.

Joby Talbot | Path of Miracles
Immersive projections by Camilla Tassi

In Path of Miracles, British composer Joby Talbot takes the listener on a musical journey along the mystical Camino de Santiago de Compostela—literally, St. James of the Field of Stars. The work vibrates with the footfalls of the pilgrims who have walked this path for millennia, its four movements marking the major stages of the Camino.

In Path of Miracles, Talbot weaves together medieval texts in multiple languages with musical styles as far-ranging as those of Taiwanese Bunun people, creating a sonic tapestry in which past and present sound together, an extended ‘thin space’ where the human and the divine meet. Paired with projected images of the cosmos, The Thirteen’s performances of Path of Miracles promise to be replete with beauty and wonder.

Joby Talbot | Path of Miracles
Immersive projections by Camilla Tassi

In Path of Miracles, British composer Joby Talbot takes the listener on a musical journey along the mystical Camino de Santiago de Compostela—literally, St. James of the Field of Stars. The work vibrates with the footfalls of the pilgrims who have walked this path for millennia, its four movements marking the major stages of the Camino.

In Path of Miracles, Talbot weaves together medieval texts in multiple languages with musical styles as far-ranging as those of Taiwanese Bunun people, creating a sonic tapestry in which past and present sound together, an extended ‘thin space’ where the human and the divine meet. Paired with projected images of the cosmos, The Thirteen’s performances of Path of Miracles promise to be replete with beauty and wonder.

This program honors the late-20th century style of musical minimalism. Transforming the landscape of contemporary music, minimalism uses hypnotic soundscapes, shifting patterns, and luminous textures that, set alongside music, can evoke the vast landscapes and quiet transcendence of Northern Europe. Seraphic Fire performs works by Ola Gjeilo, Arvo Pärt, and Henryk Górecki, culminating in selections from Philip Glass’s groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach—celebrating the enduring legacy of America’s most recognizable minimalist voice.

This program honors the late-20th century style of musical minimalism. Transforming the landscape of contemporary music, minimalism uses hypnotic soundscapes, shifting patterns, and luminous textures that, set alongside music, can evoke the vast landscapes and quiet transcendence of Northern Europe. Seraphic Fire performs works by Ola Gjeilo, Arvo Pärt, and Henryk Górecki, culminating in selections from Philip Glass’s groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach—celebrating the enduring legacy of America’s most recognizable minimalist voice.

This program honors the late-20th century style of musical minimalism. Transforming the landscape of contemporary music, minimalism uses hypnotic soundscapes, shifting patterns, and luminous textures that, set alongside music, can evoke the vast landscapes and quiet transcendence of Northern Europe. Seraphic Fire performs works by Ola Gjeilo, Arvo Pärt, and Henryk Górecki, culminating in selections from Philip Glass’s groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach—celebrating the enduring legacy of America’s most recognizable minimalist voice.

This program honors the late-20th century style of musical minimalism. Transforming the landscape of contemporary music, minimalism uses hypnotic soundscapes, shifting patterns, and luminous textures that, set alongside music, can evoke the vast landscapes and quiet transcendence of Northern Europe. Seraphic Fire performs works by Ola Gjeilo, Arvo Pärt, and Henryk Górecki, culminating in selections from Philip Glass’s groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach—celebrating the enduring legacy of America’s most recognizable minimalist voice.