Singer

A little piece of heaven and one of the greatest English choral pieces ever composed.

Written as an outpouring of grief after the death of his nine-year-old son, the heartbreakingly beautiful Hymnus Paradisi gives a deeply personal voice to Howells’s pain.

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Three Choirs Festival: Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi

Hereford Cathedral

We return to our residency at the Three Choirs Festival for the opening weekend of the 2025 festival in Hereford.

Mathias’s glorious This Worlde’s Joie is the highlight of this year’s opening evening concert. Joyful and exuberant, this colourful work, full of uplifting voices and chiming bells, is paired with Dvořák’s Te Deum, an electrifying and ecstatic hymn of praise.

Three Choirs Festival: This Worlde’s Joie

Last performed at London Handel Festival (LHF) over 30 years ago, Saul is without question one of Handel’s most dramatic and moving works. With themes of jealousy, love, loss, and betrayal, this oratorio represents Handel at his most emotionally engaging and musically thrilling.

Saul

Smith Square Hall

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists perform Bach’s masterpiece with Olivier Award winner Peter Whelan.

The crowning glory of Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle, his revolutionary St John Passion changed the course of liturgical music history, stamping his interpretation of the gospel in his largest-scale work to date.

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists have shaped modern audiences' understanding of this music for over 60 years with vivid and compelling performances. Baroque specialist Peter Whelan returns to direct the ensembles, after a critically-acclaimed debut with them in 2024.

Baritone

Malachy Frame

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 18, 2026

Saul · Sinfonia Smith Square

Mar 6 - Apr 3, 2026

Bach: St John Passion · English Baroque Soloists

Past events

Jul 30, 2025

Three Choirs Festival: Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi · Philharmonia Orchestra

Jul 26, 2025

Three Choirs Festival: This Worlde’s Joie · Philharmonia Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Doeg in Saul by Handel

Sinfonia Smith Square

Singer in St John Passion by Bach

English Baroque Soloists

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