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Review - RLPO/Jenkins at Liverpool Cathedral

Posted by Stephen

One of the more unlikely Mersey sounds to emerge from Liverpool in its year as European Capital of Culture is a stream of very earnest, very mystical new choral pieces. John Tavener’s Requiem has already come and gone in a whirl of multi-faith chanting. Paul McCartney’s Ecce Cor Meum, a lament for Linda, arrives in his home city in May. And on Saturday Liverpool’s vast Anglican cathedral was packed - some achievement - for the premiere of Karl Jenkins’s Stabat Mater.

Source : TimesOnline
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Author : Richard Morrison