Rachmaninoff Vespers

Choir of King's College London

Dr Joseph Fort director

In honour of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary and to open our Holy Week Festival, one of England’s leading university choirs gives a candlelit performance of Rachmaninov’s 1915 All-Night Vigil, popularly know as the ‘Vespers’.

This masterpiece of 20th century sacred music draws on the soundworld of Orthodox worship - particularly the singing of chant and the ringing of bells. An atmospheric way to close the day in this oasis in the City of the London.

_{The performance lasts approximately 1 hour.}