Spoil your Valentine with an early gift of romantic music in the relaxing ambiance of St Mary's Cathedral.

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Concerts take place on campus at 13:15pm in The Great Hall, Sutherland Building unless otherwise stated.

Admission is free, no booking required.

The recitals are free of charge, informal, and you are welcome to come and go as you please and to bring your lunch with you. Some concerts will be live-streamed and recorded and links will appear on this page. Concerts last around 35 minutes.

Banqueting Suite, Newcastle Civic Centre Our Final Concert with Mark Anyan as Musical Director

Our Final Concert with Mark Anyan as Musical Director. This concert, our last with Mark Anyan as Musical Director, features tw contrasting sacred works.

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Three weeks before Easter, we perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Mark Passion (BWV 247), which tells the story of Jesus as described in St Mark’s gospel chapters 14 and 15. The first of several performances was in Leipzig, during Easter 1731, and though some of Bach’s music was since lost (seemingly by his publisher), the libretto (by Bach’s long term librettist Christian Friedrich Heinrici) survived.

As Bach was required to produce music for every church service, he often reworked music he had written to fit a new text in the same poetic metre and style. This has enabled scholars to work backwards and complete a reconstruction of this wonderful Passion setting. In this concert we will be performing the 1997 reconstruction by A.H. Gomme.

Tickets £25, £20 and £15 (half price for under-30s) plus Apex booking fee £2.00

Early booking discount £1 off all full-price tickets booked by 2 January 2025

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