London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Omar Ebrahim, Elizabeth Atherton, Dietrich Henschel, Tomasz Konieczny

Krzysztof Penderecki: St. Luke Passion for 3 voices, narrator, choruses & orchestra
There will be no interval in this performance which will end at approx. 9pm

When Penderecki's St Luke Passion was premiered in 1966, it left avant-garde critics lost for words. Audiences were left reeling with emotion and disbelief: that new music could speak with such feeling, such directness and such shattering power. 'I have lived through very difficult times,' says Penderecki, and as the music fights, shouts and laments its way towards redemption, Penderecki's massive choral retelling of the last days of Christ takes its place as one of the 20th century's enduring masterpieces. Under Vladimir Jurowski, it stands as a monumental centrepiece to Southbank Centre's Belief and Beyond Belief festival.