Baldur Bronnimann - credit Yanniv Cohen |
A new commission is Torsten Rasch's A Foreign Field which is premiered by the Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Baldur Bronnimann with soloists Peter Hoare and Kate Valentine. A joint commission with Chemnitz Opera the work is intended as a commemoration of the outbreak of Work War One, and the performers will include singers from Chemnitz.
Other large scale works include Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Mahler's Second Symphony and Bach's Mass in B Minor. The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland performs Sally Beamish's Trumpet Concerto. And there are performances from Opus Anglicanum, Tenebrae, the Sacconi Quartet and the Fitzwilliam Quartet as well as festival services with the three Cathedral Choirs.
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