The Desolate City
The Tudor Consort directed by Michael Stewart
Three cities destroyed over nearly 2000 years. The Desolate City is a musical meditation on the destruction of Jerusalem described in the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah through to the bombing of Dresden and Hiroshima in World War Two.
MAUERSBERGER: Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst;
BYRD: Ne irascaris, Domine - Civitas sancti tui
PALESTRINA: Super flumina Babylonis;
Jack BODY: Psalm 137; de MONTE: Super flumina Babylonis; BYRD: Quomodo cantabimus;
BRUMEL: Lamentatio Heremiae Prophete;
MUNDY: De lamentation;
Douglas MEWS: Ghosts, Fire, Water
(Recorded in Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on Good Friday, 14 April 2017 by RNZ)