Tickets for this will not be on sale until the Spring of next year. It will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3, although that may be on another day. There may be other radio coverage [details of which will appear on this Arthur Bliss Society website and will be circulated to those on email]. Coventry Cathedral's website will carry more details nearer the time.

Coventry Cathedral - Saturday 22nd September 2012 at 7.30pm

Paul Daniel conductor
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Allan Clayton tenor
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

Schöenberg: ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ op 46
Beethoven: Symphony no 5 in C minor op 67
Bliss: ‘The Beatitudes’ (Coventry Cathedral Commission 1962)
[First time of performance in Coventry Cathedral]

Half a century ago Coventry Cathedral commissioned a new musical work to be performed at a concert following the Consecration Service. To this day it has never been heard in the building for which it was written but, for the Golden Jubilee celebrations, The Beatitudes will at last ‘come home’ in spectacular style. Arnold Schöenberg’s dramatic ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ echoes the challenge of the Cathedral’s consecration, and its history of witness to all that represents suffering and reconciliation. Beethoven’s 5th, which is probably the world's (or even the composer's) most famous symphony, completes the programme.

Coventry Cathedral reserves the right to change programmes or artists without prior notice.