Concert : The Birmingham Bach Choir sings Sacred Music

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