EVENT PROGRAMME

Saturday 27 September

The Quire, York Minster, 7.30pm

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Joby Talbot’s stunning work Path of Miracles follows the most enduring route of Catholic pilgrimage, the pilgrimage to Santiago, with the movements of Path of Miracles titled with the names of the main staging posts of ‘Camino Frances’. Keeping with the Spanish theme, the programme also features the Requiem by 16th -century Spanish composer Tomas Luis de Victoria, the composer’s last published work and seen as the last flowering of Renaissance polyphony.

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Joby Talbot has gone on quite a significant journey of his own, starting his career as arranger for pop group Divine Comedy (credits include Father Ted) but now much in demand as a film and TV composer, music for ballet, and his first opera Everest has just opened in Dallas. ‘This remarkable work captures the wonder of the medieval traveller, with long unfolding melodies and rhythms reflecting the long arduous journey, before glorious sonorities at the arrival at Santiago di Compestella’, says Paul Gameson, the choir’s director, ‘and the acoustic of the Quire is ideal for Talbot’s sound world’.