Concerts
SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS WITH CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Tickets will be on sale soon via Christ Church, Oxford.
Performers
- The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
- Peter Holder
- conductor
- Britten Sinfonia
Programme
- James MacMillan
- Seven Last Words from the Cross
First heard in 1994, MacMillan’s intense and emotionally-direct Passiontide setting has deservedly become a modern classic.
For Sir James MacMillan, “beauty is at the heart of our Christian faith”, and few living composers communicate with such emotional directness – taking ancient texts and charging them with a wholly original intensity, wonder and imaginative fire. Composed in 1994 and recorded by Britten Sinfonia subsequently on Hyperion, his Seven Last Words have already become a classic. Britten Sinfonia performs with the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
