Red Priest is one of the major success stories on the international early music scene today. Named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio Vivaldi, this extraordinary English ensemble has redefined the art of baroque music performance, combining the fruits of extensive research with swashbuckling virtuosity, creative re-composition, heart-on-sleeve emotion and compelling stagecraft. The group performs largely from memory, allowing an operatic level of freedom and interaction.

BBC Broadcast | Free Entrance

5.30pm | Worcester Cathedral

Three Cathedral Choirs
Adrian Lucas

Shephard Responses
Swayne Magnificat
Holst Nunc Dimittis
S.S. Wesley The Wilderness

Organ Recital by Ashley Grote - Assistant Organist, Gloucester Cathedral.

 

Event no: 11 | Buy tickets: £10 (or £25 for 3 late-night concerts)

10pm | College Hall

One hot summer day in 1940, the German army captured a young French composer-turned-infantryman as his company marched on the road from Verdun to Nancy. They interned him in Stalag VIII (near Görlitz in Silesia) along with his knapsack full of scores of Bach and Berg.

Event no: 6 | Buy tickets: A £37 | B £32 | C £26 | D £18 | E £10

7.45pm | Worcester Cathedral

Sponsored by Worcester County Council and the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust

Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Adrian Lucas - Conductor

Commissioned for the 1903 Birmingham Triennial Festival, this is Elgar's unsurpassed setting of the New Testament.