Howells and Lancaster

Three Choirs Festival
Three Choirs Festival Association 7c College Green Gloucester GL1 2LX
United Kingdom
01452 768928
http://www.3choirs.org

Anna Gillingham soprano

Juliet Curnow contralto

Peter Harris tenor

James Geidt baritone

St Cecilia Singers

The Bristol Ensemble

Jonathan Hope conductor



3.30 pm Cirencester Parish Church

£27, £22

A coach will depart from Lower Westgate Street at 2.15 pm. Ticket £9 return

Philip Lancaster's new War Passion for chamber choir and ensemble is a telling of the Passion story interspersed with words by nine First World War poets, offering both a commentary on the Passion and a parallel narrative recounting the experience and sacrifice of that war. It is paired with the searing Requiem by Herbert Howells, inspired by the death from polio of the composer's nine-year-old son Michael.




Herbert Howells : Requiem
Philip Lancaster : War Passion