resist temptation…

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. 

Join Kantos for a sumptuous feast of musical transgression, choral indulgence, and heart-wrenching pleas for forgiveness with Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir.

The performance will feature world premieres from up-and-coming RNCM student composers Sophie Nolan and Alex Watson, and hair-raising cautionary tales that will make you think twice about straying from the straight and narrow...

Please continue scrolling below for info about the performance at The White Hotel, Salford.

Kantos & The White Hotel Presents

CONFESSION OF THE SINNERS

A one-off choral exploration of the Seven Deadly Sins in special collaboration with Salford’s spiritual home of sin, The White Hotel. The show features seventeen singers of Kantos Choir performing music specially chosen to invoke and explore the seven cardinal vices married with a special commission from The White Hotel’s poet-in-residence, Christ Bryan who has sought and received confessions of pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth from sinners in and around The White Hotel’s creative community and has created a one-off collection of confessional poetry to be performed as part of the show.

Please note the music programme for this show is the same as that from Kantos’ Seven Deadly Sins show but the words and presentation of the show have been mutually reworked with The White Hotel team to create a special, collaborative, one-off performance at The White Hotel.

The Music

Frank Martin - Mass for Double Choir: Kyrie Eleison & Agnus Dei
Maurice Ravel - Nicolette
Francis Poulenc - Quatre Motets pour un Temps de Pénitence
Pierre Passereau - Il est Bel et Bon
Mélanie Bonis - Ave Verum
Alex Watson - On Envy
Olivier Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium
Camille Saint-Saëns - Calme des Nuits
Claude Debussy - Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin 
Orlando di Lasso - Il estoit une religieuse
Igor Stravinsky - Ave Maria & Pater Noster
Claude Debussy - Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!
Orlando di Lasso - Timor et Tremor
Sophie Nolan - Ira Vos Totos Consumet

Guest artists

Sophie Nolan - Composer (RNCM Student Commission)
Alex Watson - Composer (RNCM Student Commission)