John Quinn

Elijah closes the 2025 Three Choirs Festival in style

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2025 [5] – Mendelssohn: José Francisco Abrantes-Noronha (treble), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Anthony Gregory (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Geraint Bowen (conductor). Hereford Cathedral, 2.8.2025. (JQ)

Matthew Brook © Laura Bremer

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The Three Choirs Festival’s revival of a long-neglected oratorio by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [4] – Coleridge-Taylor: Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Aoife Miskelly (soprano), Amy Holyland (mezzo-soprano), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano). Mark LeBrocq (tenor), David Stout (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson (conductor). Hereford Cathedral, 31.7.2025. (JQ)

Baritone David Stout © Dale Hodgetts

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A marvellous concert of Bliss and Howells at the Three Choirs Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2025 [3] – Howells, Bliss: Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Michael Bell (tenor), Malachy Frame (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Partington (conductor). Hereford Cathedral 30.7.2025. (JQ)

Soprano Rebecca Hardwick, conductor Adrian Partington and tenor Michael Bell in Hymnus Paradisi © James O’Driscoll

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The 2025 Three Choirs Festival premieres Richard Blackford’s The Black Lake 

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2025 Three Choirs Festival [2] – Pärt, Elgar, Britten, Blackford: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Betsan Llwyd (narrator), Steffan Rhodri (narrator), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales / David Hill (conductor). Hereford Cathedral, 27.7.2025. (JQ)

Soprano Elizabeth Watts, narrators Betsan Llwyd and Steffan Rhodri, conductor David Hill, Three Choirs Festival Chorus and BBC NOW © Dave Hodgetts

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Fine revival of an important work by William Mathias at the 2025 Three Choirs Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2025 Three Choirs Festival [1] – Smyth, Dvořák, Mathias: Eleanor Dennis (soprano), James Oxley (tenor), Malachy Frame (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Hereford Cathedral Choristers, Philharmonia Orchestra / Geraint Bowen (conductor). Hereford Cathedral, 26.7.2025. (JQ)

Geraint Bowen conducts the Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, soprano Eleanor Dennis and baritone Malachy Frame © Dale Hodgetts

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The Three Choirs Festival ends with an exceptional performance of The Kingdom

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [7] – Elgar: Anita Watson (The Blessed Virgin – soprano), Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (Mary Magdalene), Toby Spence (St John), Alex Jones (St Peter), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Partington (conductor). Worcester Cathedral, 3.8.2024. (JQ)

Adrian Partington conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra © Michael Whitefoot

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Interesting and challenging works by McDowall and Venables for the Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [6] – McDowall, Stanford (arr. Dibble), Venables: Ben Cooper (narrator), Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir; Jonathan Hope (organ), Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Partington (conductor) Worcester Cathedral 2.8.2024. (JQ)

Adrian Partington conducts the Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra

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