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2019 - 2020 Season

Stainer's Crucifixion in Edinburgh

Stainer: Crucifixion
Kenneth Leighton: Crucifixus Pro Nobis
JS Bach: Ruht Wohl from St John Passion
George Revill tenor
Will Frost bass
Morley Whitehead organ
Michael Bawtree & Sam McLellan conductors

ERCU returns to St Cuthbert’s Church for a seasonal performance of Stainer’s moving depiction of the Crucifixion, alongside Kenneth Leighton’s more recent, powerful setting Crucifixus Pro Nobis. John Stainer’s Crucifixion, a popular choral work that vividly portrays the events of the Passion of Christ, combines recitatives, solos and masterful choruses that range from the graphic mob shouts of Crucify Him to the ethereally beautiful meditation at the work’s centrepiece, God so loved the world. Kenneth Leighton, who held the Reid Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh, was active as a composer of church music for much of his career. This small-scale cantata, setting words by the 17th-century poets Patrick Carey and Phineas Fletcher, combines a directness of expression, and quite fierce, uncompromising harmonic language, with a great lyrical beauty, anguished in its response to the powerful poems.

George Revill is an English-American tenor currently in his first year of Postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has performed in the choruses of Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Virginia Opera, and last season performed Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles, C.H.H. Parry’s Songs of Farewell, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Virginia Chorale. George currently studies under the tutelage of Iain Paton.

Bass baritone Will Frost is in his first year of Masters study. Notable engagements include covering the bass role for RSNO's Mozart Requiem. He won the Governors Recital Prize for Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) and performed as Pilatus in SCCs St John’s Passion and Jesus in the HCS production. He also sang the role of Don Alfonzo with the RCS Symphony Orchestra under Baldur Brönnimann.
Will is kindly supported by The Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

Stainer's Crucifixion at Lindisfarne

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Season Overview

Andrea Bocelli Concert
Sunday 20 October, 7:30pm
The Hydro Glasgow.

Voyage à Paris
Sat 9 November, 7:30 pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Includes works by Poulenc, Vierne and Debussy

Mahler’s Third Symphony
Sunday 10 November, 3 pm
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Tickets and more info available from the Usher Hall.

Christmas with the Choral
Wed 11 December, 7:30 pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

New Year Messiah
Thursday 2 Jan 2020, 12 noon
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Conductor: Jane Glover CBE
Tickets and more info available from the Usher Hall.

Stainer's Crucifixion
Saturday 14 March, 1:00 pm
St Mary the Virgin, Lindisfarne

Stainer's Crucifixion
Sunday 15 March 6:00 pm
St Cuthbert's Church,
Lothian Rd Edinburgh

Haydn's Creation
Saturday 16 May, 7.30 pm
St Cuthbert’s Church
Lothian Road, Edinburgh

Summer tour to Krakow, Poland
Friday 29 May to Monday 1 June

Past Concerts