
Join us for a transcendent evening
of music in the heart of ‘Elgar Country’, as Worcester Festival Choral Society,
world-class soloists and symphony orchestra perform one of Elgar’s greatest
choral works, The Kingdom, at Worcester Cathedral.
Premiered at the Birmingham
Triennial Music Festival in 1906, The Kingdom was Elgar’s third, large
oratorio, following the success of The Dream of Gerontius and The
Apostles. Including a mixture of astonishingly dramatic and gentle choral
passages, as well as some of Elgar’s finest orchestral and soloist writing, The
Kingdom is also known for the hauntingly beautiful soprano solo, ‘The sun
goeth down’.
Its narrative continues on from The
Apostles, focusing on the lives of Jesus’s disciples and the Holy Women –
portrayed as ordinary people who encounter extraordinary events – as they lay
the foundations of Christianity.
Accompanying Worcester Festival
Choral Society are acclaimed soloists and the superb Meridian Sinfonia symphony
orchestra, all under the baton of Worcester Cathedral's director of music
Samuel Hudson.
So put the date in your diary to experience this true Choral Great this spring!
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