Concert : The Birmingham Bach Choir sings Sacred Music

Schedule

Sat Mar 14 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Chad's Catholic Cathedral | Birmingham, EN

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As we move from Lent towards Passiontide, let this beautiful music create space for reflection and hope.
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


Event Photos

Birmingham Bach Choir in concert 2024

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Where is it happening?

St Chad's Catholic Cathedral, 3540 Saint Chads Queensway, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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