Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri

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• Price: Admission free with retiring collection
• Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2014
• Time: 21:30 - 22:30
• Venue: Cambridge
• Location: King's Chapel

English Voices (dir. Tim Brown)
Pavlo Beznosiuk and friends
Instrumentalists drawn from the Academy of Ancient Music

Meditation for Maundy Thursday

Equally devotional and theatrical, Buxtehude’s remarkable cycle of seven cantatas sets a 13th century poem alongside biblical texts, focusing on seven parts of Christ’s crucified body.

Soloists

Eli Rolfe Johnson – Soprano
Gussie Hebbert – Soprano
Oliver El-Holiby – Alto
Julian Gregory – Tenor
Timothy Murphy – Bass