JEREMY BUDD (treble)
SIMON GAY (counter-tenor) STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) WESTMINSTER SINGERS
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA conducted by RICHARD HICKOX
Ikon of St Seraphim
The London premiere of John Tavener 's dramatic setting of a text by Mother Thekla. performed in Nicholas Hawksmoor 's Christ Church, Spitalfields.
The life and mystical visions of St Seraphim , who left his monastery at Sarov, near Kiev, in 1794 for the life of a hermit.
He returned there towards the end of his life, offering pilgrims spiritual guidance and in some cases performing miracles.
0 See David Gillard , page 79
10.15 Faure Requiem (Given on 7 June as part of the Spitalfields Festival, in association with the Spitalfields Development Group)