Canterbury Choral Society presents Dvořák: Stabat Mater

This event is organised, managed and delivered by Canterbury Choral Society

Saturday 22 March, 7,30pm

Canterbury Cathedral

Tickets £34, £28, £23, £18, £10 (Incl. £2 booking fee)

Priority booking for Benefactors will open on Friday 20 September, 10am.

Priority booking for Friends will open on Friday 27 September, 10am.

Public booking will open on Friday 4 October, 10am.

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Perhaps in this intensely passionate score, the greatest Czech composer pours out his most profound and heartfelt writing, standing alongside his greatest works such as the Cello concerto and the New World Symphony, and surpassing all his other choral works. This concert is an opportunity to experience a work of great profundity. Its composition followed the death of his fourth, and last-remaining child – he was to have more who survived him.

It is a work of deep beauty and pathos from its extended first movement, as Mary laments the death of her son Jesus at the foot of the cross. Dvořák’s composition stands together with other great settings of the text from Palestrina in the 16th century, Rossini and Verdi in the 19th, through to Penderecki and Szymanowski in the 20th century. Dvořák’s creation was on a more expansive scale than all of these others.