• Passio with Hebrides Ensemble — Live BBC Radio 3 Broadcast

    BBC Radio 3 , United Kingdom

    Please note that this event will now take place as a live broadcast from St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh on BBC Radio 3. Exquisitely restrained yet indescribably intense, Arvo Pärt’s Passio is a modern masterpiece. This hour-long setting of St John’s Gospel draws upon some of the earliest settings of the passion story to reframe and distil its message for modern listeners. Interpolating passages for solo voices and choral ensembles, we are never […]

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  • Passio with Hebrides Ensemble | Online Video Broadcast

    Please click HERE to watch the online video broadcast. Exquisitely restrained yet indescribably intense, Arvo Pärt’s Passio is a modern masterpiece. This hour-long setting of St John’s Gospel draws upon some of the earliest settings of the passion story to reframe and distil its message for modern listeners. Interpolating passages for solo voices and choral ensembles, we are never far away from familiar passion territory and yet, with Pärt’s characteristic vocal candour and pared-down orchestration, it is a work that somehow remains timeless. In a Dunedin Consort first, we are […]

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