Each year on the Tuesday in Holy Week the cathedral choir, along with guest soloists and orchestra, give a performance of one of JS Bach's Passions. This year it was the turn of the St John Passion.
1. Many of the members of the orchestra have local connections including David Hatcher & Warwick Cole (cellos), Hazel Davies (violin) and Peter Dyke (organ).
2.The chorus is sung by the cathedral choir and, with the Baroque pitch of the orchestra, they recreate a sound similar to that which Bach would have known.
3. James Oxley, who sang the Evangelist to great acclaim, who lives, when his musical commitments allow him, in Herefordshire with his partner Caroline.
4. The annual concert, sponsored by the Alan Cadbury Charitable Trust, was introduced in 2000 by the cathedral's organist and director of music, Geraint Bowen.
5. Conductor and the cathedral's director of music, Geraint Bowen (centre) with James Oxley, Evangelist, Robert Rice, Christus, Lucy Bowen, soprano, Nicholas Mulroy, tenor and Robin Tyson, countertenor.
6. St John Passion in performance.
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