The Beatitudes ~ finally home

Bliss's cantata The Beatitudes was commissioned to mark the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. To this day it has never been performed in the Cathedral for which it was written, nor with the Harrison and Harrison organ for which a special sequence was written. 

Finally, fifty years later, for Coventry Cathedral's Golden Jubilee celebrations, The Beatitudes will at last ‘come home’ in spectacular style. Arnold Schöenberg’s dramatic ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ echoes the challenge of the Cathedral’s consecration, and its history of witness to all that represents suffering and reconciliation. Beethoven’s 5th, which is probably the world's (or even the composer's) most famous symphony, completes the programme.

Saturday 22^nd September 2012 at 7.30pm

Paul Daniel, conductor

Elizabeth Watts, soprano

Andrew Kennedy, tenor

Omar Ebrahim, narrator

BBC Philharmonic and..

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

Schöenberg: ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ op 46

Beethoven: Symphony no 5 in C minor op 67

Bliss: ‘The Beatitudes’ (Coventry Cathedral Commission 1962)

[First time of performance in Coventry Cathedral]

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