Name: Three Choirs: The Holy City
Start: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gloucester Cathedral

Organization

Conductor

Adrian Partington

Tenor

Ruairi Bowen

Baritone

Roderick Williams

Instrumentalist

Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay

Violin

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Three Choirs: The Holy City

London

United Kingdom

Gloucester Cathedral

Three Choirs: The Holy City: Rise up, O Sun! Eleanor Alberga (+2 More)

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Rise up, O Sun!

Sancta Civitas

Violin Concerto in B minor, op. 61

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Vaughan Williams’s Sancta Civitas was strongly influenced by the horrors of the First World War. The music portrays the dreadful annihilation of Babylon’s armies and mourns the destruction of the city, before the beautiful violin solo introduces the holy city and unites all in peace and love for ever. The piece ends in quiet longing for an end to earthly wars and conflict.

Continuing the yearning tones of the violin, our Joint Concert Master Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay is the soloist in Elgar’s Violin Concerto. A sweeping romance, the concerto has been loved by audiences since it was first heard at a private party before the Three Choirs Festival in 1910.

Opening the concert is Eleanor Alberga’s setting of words from William Blake’s Vala, or The Four Zoas, depicting a pastoral paradise with glorious imagery.

Sancta Civitas supported by The American Friends of the Three Choirs Festival

Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay supported by The Richard Hall Charitable Trust

Eleanor Alberga commission supported by the Three Choirs Commissioning Circle

English

Three Choirs: The Holy City by Alberga, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, From (2023/2023), Conductor Adrian Partington, Gloucester Cathedral, London, United Kingdom

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