Beskrivelse
Rotating each summer between the English cathedral cities of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester, the Festival is a week-long programme of choral and orchestral concerts, cathedral services, solo and chamber music recitals, master classes, talks, theatre and exhibitions. At the heart of the modern festival are the daily services of Choral Evensong, representing the tradition of Anglican music and liturgy, and the large-scale evening concerts featuring established favourites of the British classical choral tradition with works drawn from a broader, more international musical canvas. Many special commissions and other works, including compositions by British composers such as Jonathan Harvey, James Macmillan, Judith Bingham and John McCabe, and composers from abroad, such as Gerard Schurmann, Jackson Hill and Torsten Rasch, have received their first performances at Three Choirs. The history of the oldest surviving non-competitive music festival in Britain from its origins in the early eighteenth century, along the way touching on many musical milestones – premieres by Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saëns, Holst, and Howells, among others – and luminaries – Sullivan, Stanford, Dvorák, Delius, Bax, and Britten, to name but a few – associated with it.
