Nigel Short, director of award-winning choir Tenebrae, chats to Lorcan Doherty about how passion and precision are key to the creation of their unique sound and why there was no doubt that Francis Poulenc’s masterpiece Figure humaine would form the centrepiece of their 20th anniversary programme at this year’s festival.

Show notes * City of Derry International Choir Festival + 2021 programme + 2021 podcast programme * Tenebrae + Nigel Short

Music

• Alonso Lobo - Versa est in luctum (Tenebrae, Nigel Short)
• Hubert Parry - Songs of Farewell: My soul, there is a country (Tenebrae, Nigel Short)
• Francis Poulenc - Figure Humaine: Liberté (Tenebrae, Nigel Short)
• Francis Poulenc - Figure Humaine: Un feu sans tache (Tenebrae, Nigel Short)