Lament of the Mother of God (Tavener) — Winchester Cathedral Choir with Solveig Kringelborn

The Choir of Winchester Cathedral, under the direction of David Hill, perform John Tavener’s ’Lament of the Mother of God’, an Orthodox text chanted and sung on Great and Holy Friday to mark the death of Christ on the cross and remember the sorrows of His mother. Norwegian soprano Solveig Kringelborn solos here with the words of the grieving Mary in a stunning, ethereal setting by John Tavener that has been described as ’the Pietà in sound’. The text below is incomplete. Any corrections or ad