About this Event
A programme of sacred music and readings in St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham.
Our great Elizabethan composers William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and Orlando Gibbons are featured, together with their European contemporaries Thomás Luis de Victoria, Dominique Phinot, Carlo Gesualdo and the slightly later Antonio Lotti, to create a wonderful Lent and Passiontide programme. Choral singing by the Birmingham Bach Choir will be punctuated with readings by Archbishop Bernard Langley and organ pieces played by Martyn Rawles.
Programme:
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday
Gibbons: Drop, Drop Slow Tears
Lotti: Crucifixus
Byrd: Miserere Mei
Victoria: O vos omnes
Phinot: Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae
Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
Salvator mundi
Performers:
Paul Spicer: conductor
Archbishop Bernard Langley: reader
Martyn Rawles: organist
with the Birmingham Bach Choir
The Birmingham Bach Choir is one of the country's leading large chamber choirs, with an enviable reputation:
"profoundly moving and expertly crafted”
(Prof David Saint April 2025)
"Without reservation, a five-star performance from the first note to the last.”
(David Barton November 2025)
For more information about Birmingham Bach Choir visit: www.birmingham.bachchoir.com
Birmingham Bach Choir in concert 2024
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Chad's Catholic Cathedral, 3540 Saint Chads Queensway, Birmingham, United Kingdom
GBP 13.70 to GBP 24.54
