Tickets are free, but must be reserved.

Festival Chorus
Worcester Cathedral Choir
Philharmonia Brass
Adrian Lucas  conductor
Christopher Allsop  organ

The Right Revd Peter Price, Bishop of Bath & Wells  preacher

Stanford Thanksgiving Te Deum Op. 143

Andrew Carter Prayer of Peace

Walton Introduction and National Anthem

£12

The Friends of Worcester Three Choirs Festival will host this reception, which will be open to all immediately following the opening service.

The Friends work hard in the year prior to the festival fundraising and building awareness of the festival in the community. The festival committee would like to thank them for their sterling efforts, without which this festival would not only be financially poorer, but would also lack the warm, friendly atmosphere that we all take for granted and enjoy so much.

£8

To Malvern College. The coach will depart from King Street.

£22.50

The Melchior Ensemble:

Daniel Rowland  violin
Priya Mitchell  violin
Razvan Popovici  viola
Yuri Zhislin  viola
Benjamin Hughes  cello
David Cohen  cello

Strauss Prelude to Capriccio
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
Tcahikovsky Souvenir de Florence

Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir
Stephen Shellard conductor

Donald Hunt Introit
Donald Hunt Responses
Stanford Evening Service in A
David Briggs O Lord, support us

£39/£34/£27/£18/£10

Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Adrian Lucas  conductor

Sarah Connolly  mezzo-soprano
John Graham-Hall  tenor
Alan Opie  baritone

Kindly supported by Severn House Publishers
Sarah Connolly kindly supported by Joanna Brickell & Trading Edge Worldwide 

Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

£10
Available online from Thursday 21 April

Claire Martin vocalist
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett piano

‘A Couple of Swells’

In the year of his 75th birthday, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Claire Martin present the Irving Berlin Songbook.

Claire and Richard both share a great love of the American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin, widely considered to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Berlin wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him a legend before he turned thirty.

This brand new show, with classy arrangements by Richard, will include such classics as ‘Let’s face the Music and Dance’, ‘How deep is the Ocean’, ‘What’ll I do?’, ‘Cheek to Cheek’ and ‘Let yourself go’, all delivered with the style and panache that you would expect from these two great friends and world-class artists.

‘What was important on this night was to acknowledge that the finely-crafted marriage of words and music that flourished in the thirties and forties - indeed the golden age of American popular song - simply aren't period pieces, not when a Richard Rodney Bennett is around to pick them up, dust them off and allow their magic to start all over again.’ Glasgow Herald