An Anglo-Iberian Compline

part of the 

Singapore Night Festival 2025

In late Mediaeval and Renaissance England, Sung Compline was a daily event at the chapels of colleges and of the nobility, and often composers wrote their best music for Compline, with the mix of chanted psalms and polyphonic hymns making for an intimate and soothing end to the day. To supplement our historical journey, we have added liturgically complementary Iberian music in honour of St Joseph's Portuguese heritage, and contemporary English music to show how the tradition has developed since. 

St Joseph's Church

143 Victoria St

23 August 8 p.m.

On the Way to Bethlehem:

Christmas from Eastern Lands

In an age where much is heard about decolonizing and anti-Imperialism, it is often forgotten that Christianity is not, at its heart, a ‘Western’ religion. In this presentation, we take the listener on a musical journey far from the centres of Western Christendom. From the unfamiliar yet recognizably Christmassy carols of Bohemia and the Western Slavs, we journey to the East Slavic lands, where the Slavonic-texted music of Bortniansky and his heirs resounds through the great urban centres of L’viv, Kyiv, Moscow, and St Petersburg. We move onwards to the Caucasus with Georgian and Armenian polyphony, then to the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia, and the Arabic Levant, back to Bethlehem where it all began. 

Nov/Dec 2025

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