Ensemble 360

Members of Ensemble 360 and a group of amateur singers (directed by Angus Smith – eminent singer with The Orlando Consort and also Artistic Director for Music in the Round) perform together at Sheffield Cathedral in this unique concert of transcendent music. The range of choral pieces form a bridge across many centuries, linking serene medieval plainsong with profound modern works.

Haydn’s moving meditations on the words of Christ, written for a solemn Lent service, were intended to be interspersed with sermons, which here are replaced by complementary works: Biber’s ecstatic Passacaglia of the 1670s; Górecki's Totus Tuus, written for Pope John Paul II’s emotional pilgrimage to Poland in 1987; Pärt's lament for wordless voices and instruments; and James Macmillan's Lux aeterna. Part of Love and War Music in the Round’s Festival of World Class Chamber Music.

Runs approx. 70mins with no interval