The year 2025 brings three important anniversaries: Bob Chilcott (70), Sir John Rutter (80) and the great Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (90). We recognise these three remarkable and influential composers of choral music with a concert featuring pieces which originate in very different sound worlds, but which are all inspired by deep spirituality; from Chilcott’s works that draw on many different jazz styles, through Pärt’s sacred Beatitudes, to Rutter’s stirring arrangement of well-known spirituals, written especially for mezzo-soprano Melanie Marshall, one of Britain’s most versatile vocal artists.
Chilcott: Nidaros Jazz Mass / Five Days that Changed the World / Ophelia, Caliban and Miranda
Pärt: Beatitudes
Rutter: Feel the Spirit
Neil Taylor - Conductor
Melanie Marshall – Mezzo-soprano
Pete Durrant – Organ
The Cotton Trio
Free pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm
Neil Taylor and Rosemary Broadbent will explain more about the background to the works to be performed in their highly-popular pre-concert talk. Entrance is included in the ticket price and there is no need to book for the talk, which will take place in the side chapel in the Church at 6.45pm.
