A special hour of reflection, music and prayer to conclude the Festival presenting sacred music by Couperin and his contemporaries, including Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Stabat mater pour les religieuses and a rare performance of a Nunc Dimittis.by Jean-Joseph Mouret, recently transcribed for this event.
Also a Magnificat by the influential French baroque composer Henri Du Mont.
This special Choral Evensong is the concluding event in Pacific Baroque Festival 2018.
St. Christopher’s Singers – Madeleine Humer, director Pacific Baroque Festival Ensemble – Marc Destrubé, director
Christ Church Cathedral, Quadra at Rockland, Victoria V8V 4X1 Voluntary offerings