St Peter’s Cathedral’s annual Good Friday Meditation Concert is a special, free concert, presented by the Music Foundation, featuring music appropriate to the reflective nature of the day.

This year’s offering is the marvellous, quiet beauty of Bob Chilcott’s Requiem.

Bob Chilcott’s music is some of the most popular and well recognised in the world, with masterpieces like his Shepherd’s Carol sung by choirs around the world.

He was a chorister at King’s College Cambridge - in fact, the famous 1967 King’s College recording of Faure’s Requiem features a young Bob Chilcott as the treble soloist in the Pie Jesu.

It is this music that Chilcott grew up with, and it informs everything he writes. Bob Chilcott’s Requiem is entirely in the rich tradition established by Faure and Sir John Rutter - beautiful, meditative, with divine choral writing and soaring solos.

Performed by St Peter’s Cathedral Choir, directed by Anthony Hunt, a small ensemble of instrumentalists and organist Andrew Georg, with soprano soloist Jessica Dean, and tenor soloist Kyle Stegall, this is an afternoon of sheer delight and profound beauty, in the quiet and solemn space of St Peter’s Cathedral on Good Friday.

ADMISSION FREE - no bookings necessary.
Friday 18th April
3.00pm