The Good Friday Concert

Friday 7th April 2023, 7:30pm
Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, BA15 2UE

Bath Camerata
Benjamin Kirk – conductor

Good Friday at Wells Cathedral
featuring music by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Bath Camerata return once again to the glorious surroundings of Wells Cathedral for their 34th concert on Good Friday.

This year marks 150 years since the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff. To commemorate this occassion, the programme will feature a number of works by the celebrated composer, including extracts from his iconic “All -Night Vigil” – the deeply moving Vespers of the Russian Orthodox tradition. There will also be music by Poulence, MacMillan, Mahler and Bortiniansky.

Admission is free of charge, with a retiring collection for ‘Music in Wells’.  No need to pre-book.  The performance runs for just over an hour and without an interval.

FULL PROGRAMME

Sergei RACHMANINOFF O Mother of God, Vigilantly Praying
Francis POULENC Quatre Motets pour un temps de pénitence
Dmitri BORTNIANSKY Concerto 32: Lord, let me know mine End
Sergei RACHMANINOFF Nunc Dimittis from the All-night Vigil, Op. 37 No. 5
Sir James MACMILLAN Misere
Sergei RACHMANINOFF Glory be to God on High from the All-night Vigil, Op. 37 No. 12
Gustav MAHLER, arr. GOTTWALD Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Sergei RACHMANINOFF O Praise the Name of the Lord from the All-night Vigil, Op. 37 No. 8
Sergei RACHMANINOFF Hymn of Praise: “We sing to Thee” from the Liturgy of St John of Chrysostom, Op. 31, No. 12
Sergei RACHMANINOFF Chorus of the Spirits

We thank William Haley Engineering for making this concert possible.
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