Three Choirs Festival

Philip Lancaster War Passion
Herbert Howells Requiem

Saint Cecilia Singers
Jonathan Hope conductor

Bristol Ensemble makes its debut at the Three Choirs Festival, performing a new work by Philip Lancaster.

Philip Lancaster‘s 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, influenced by the death from polio of the composer‘s nine-year-old son Michael.

Tickets are £27/£22 and can be booked online at www.3choirs.org

Supported by John and Margaret Lawrence, the Finzi Trust and the Jerusalem Trust

Visit www.3choirs.org for full details

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Bristol Ensemble gratefully acknowledges financial support from Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Bristol Plays Music, Denman Charitable Trust, D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Lalonde Trust, Nisbet Charitable Trust, Paragon Music Trust, Mark Masons Benevolent Fund, Patsy Wood Trust, PRS for Music Foundation, Quartet Community Foundation, Souter Charitable Trust, St James’s Place Foundation, the Steel Charitable Trust, and the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust. We are grateful to Ronnie Scott’s Charitable Trust for its funding of the Preludes jazz project.

National Lottery Bristol City Council Bristol Plays Music  D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust  Garfield Weston FoundationMark Master Masons  Patsy Wood Trust PRS for Music Foundation Quartet Community Foundation  Ronnie Scott's Charitable Foundation  Souter Charitable TrustSt James PlaceVaughan Williams Charitable Trust