CONCERT: Bach - St Matthew Passion

Name: CONCERT: Bach - St Matthew Passion
Start: 2025-03-22T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Worcester Cathedral

Schedule

Sat, 22 Mar, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Worcester Cathedral | Worcester, EN

Worcester Festival Choral Society is proud to bring Johann Sebastian Bach’s inspirational 1727 oratorio St Matthew Passion to wonderful Worcester Cathedral on Saturday 22 March 2025... a masterwork that 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.
Note: Exact start time tbc
Soloists:
TBC