
Event Description
The Armonico Consort, directed by Christopher Monks, presents Rachmaninov’s Vespers.
If you’ve not heard the Vespers before, think of his divine Symphony No 2, but performed by voices, and you won’t even get close to how incredible this is! In 1915, what is widely praised as Rachmaninov’s greatest achievement and the greatest achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church was composed. He managed to find a way of using the choir as an orchestra, both texturally and dynamically. The music was so personally resonant for Rachmaninov that he asked for the ‘Nunc Dimitis’, the fifth movement, to be sung at his funeral.
In the exquisite late-evening candlelit setting at Malvern Theatres, prepare to be transported by what is simply the most gorgeous choral music ever to have been written. By virtue of this special music, for a moment in time, simply nothing else in life will matter.