Ex Cathedra Scholars

Jeffrey Skidmore - Conductor

The Grand Tour - Burney at 300

Handel Zadok the Priest

Purcell Jehovah quam multi sunt hostes mei

Charpentier Transfige dulcissime Jesu

Haydn The heavens are telling (The Creation)

Allegri Miserere

Lotti Crucifixus

Mozart Ave verum

Bach Komm, Jesu, komm

To mark the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney, England's great eighteenth-century music historian, Ex Cathedra's Scholars Ensemble invites you to take a musical Grand Tour, inspired by the man whose vivid diary provides some of the clearest portraits of musical life in 18th-century Europe.

Beginning in London and travelling through Paris, Vienna, Rome, Venice and Germany, this programme traces Burney's remarkable journeys, with glorious music by Purcell, Handel, Rameau, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart and Bach, together with the iconic Miserere by Allegri, whose publication by Burney in London in 1771 helped extend its fame and enhance the legend.

From Handel's Zadok the Priest to Mozart, Beethoven and Bach's magnificent double-choir motet Komm, Jesu, komm, this is a rich panorama of European choral music, framed by the insight and wit of Shropshire-born Burney, whose work brought the sounds and stories of this music to British audiences.

The finer details...

'Behind the Music' FREE pre-concert talk: 6.45pm

Interval: 20 mins

Estimated finish: 9.30pm

Tickets

Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student

Rear Nave: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student

Sides: £14 full price | £3 child/student