Three Choirs Festival
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Hereford Cathedral
300th Birthday Celebrations
The artistic programme of the Hereford Three Choirs Festival 2017 will reflect the 300th anniversary in two main ways:
- the Opening Service will be accompanied by a period-instrument orchestra (the Corelli Ensemble), and will include music by Purcell and Handel that would have been well known to the festival’s early participants and audiences
- the main evening cathedral concerts will celebrate the festival’s extraordinary longevity with a wide selection of significant repertoire taken from that 300-year period, including Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, the Verdi Requiem, Sir Arthur Bliss’s Morning Heroes, Nielsen’s Hymnus Amoris, the Verdi Requiem, Lux Aeterna by the Welsh composer William Mathias, and the first ever performance in a Three Choirs Festival city of Olivier Messiaen’s vast orchestral work Turangalíla-Symphonie.
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment makes its Three Choirs Festival debut to accompany the Three Cathedral Choirs in the St Matthew Passion while the other evening concerts will feature the Philharmonia, in the fourth year of its rolling residence at the festival.
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