The Gesualdo Six (photo Andrew Wilkinson)

Music for Holy Week

Name: Music for Holy Week — The Gesualdo Six
Start: 2026-03-29T20:15:00+02:00
End: 2026-03-29T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Muziekgebouw

The Gesualdo Six

Sun 29 Mar 2026 20:15 - 21:30

Sun 29 Mar 2026

20:15 - 21:30

Sun 29 Mar 2026

20:15 - 21:30

Grote Zaal

Tickets

Program

Thomas Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah, part 1
Judith Bingham Watch with me
Carlo Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories (Tristis est anima mea, Tenebrae factae sunt, O vos omnes)
Thomas Tallis In jejunio et fletu
Tomás Luis de Victoria Tenebrae Responsories (Una hora, Tenebrae factae sunt, Aestimatus sum)
Owain Park It is finished
Thomas Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah, part 2

Credits

The Gesualdo Six:
Guy James countertenor
Alasdair Austin countertenor
Joseph Wicks tenor
Josh Cooter tenor
Simon Grant baritone
Owain Park conductor, bass

Sober but rich, poignant Easter sounds

The Gesualdo Six’s Christmas concert in 2022 was a marvellous Muziekgebouw debut. Which is why the singers were invited back to bring their beautiful voices to this year’s Easter celebrations. ‘The Gesualdo Six is an impressive boy band of six young singers’, wrote SWR Kultur. They alternate three of the greatest composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries with two present-day composers, one of whom is their artistic director, Owain Park.

At the heart of the programme are the Tenebrae responsoria. The Tenebrae (Dark Matins) is a Roman Catholic ritual for the last days of Holy Week: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Numerous composers have set this ritual to music, and today we will hear the works of Gesualdo and Victoria. It is fascinating to experience how composers from different countries, like Italy and Spain, approached the very same texts with such distinct musical interpretations.

Part of

Easter 2026

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