BACH St Matthew Passion | WFCS

Name: BACH St Matthew Passion | WFCS
Start: 2025-03-22T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-22T22:00:00+00:00
Location: 8 College Yard, WR1 2 LA Worcester, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

8 College Yard, WR1 2 LA Worcester, United Kingdom | Worcester, EN

Johann Sebastian Bach’s inspirational 1727 oratorio St Matthew Passion is both a musical icon for the Christian world and an expression of feelings common to the whole of humanity.
Known as the ‘Great Passion’, it presents a powerful setting of Jesus's final days, drawing on parts of St Matthew’s Gospel.
From intimate grief to monumental crowd scenes, the work’s richly scored arias, chorales and choruses sculpt the story into a gripping drama, told with a vivid sense of theatre by double chorus, double orchestra and solo voices.
Accompanying the 140 voices of the accomplished Worcester Festival Choral Society in this performance in magnificent Worcester Cathedral are six, acclaimed soloists and the superb Meridian Sinfonia orchestra. Worcester Cathedral’s director of music, Samuel Hudson, conducts.
Soloists:
SEBASTIAN HILL – tenor (Evangelist)
DAVID SHIPLEY – bass (Christus)
MIRIAM ALLAN – soprano
TOM LILBURN – countertenor
RUAIRI BOWEN – tenor
RICHARD BANNAN – baritone
Image ©Michael Whitefoot WFCS