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The Cathedral’s annual St Ceciliatide Concert this year (Friday 20 November, 7.30pm) honours Mendelssohn’s bicentenary with his oratorio St Paul. This was the first of Mendelssohn’s oratorios, written in 1835 when he was 26, and performed in 1836 at the Lower Rhine Festival in Düsseldorf.
St Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and Church music - her feast day is 22 November - and churches throughout the world hold a concert in her honour. Mendelssohn’s St Paul is rarely sung in its entirety. Featuring the Cathedral Choir with special guests Donald Stephenson (Baritone) singing the part of Saul/Paul and David Houlder, from Liverpool Cathedral on organ, this concert promises to be something special.
Tickets, priced at £8 /concessions £5 are available on the door or from the Cathedral Office on 01274 777720.
