Music for Good Friday 2020
Our presentation of Music for Good Friday 2020 offers a second opportunity to hear Matthew Oglesby’s superb new Requiem Penthos.
Composed to a text by fellow St Peter’s Singer Hannah Stone, this assured and diverse work received its first performance to great acclaim in October 2018. Find out more!
The programme also includes Allegri’s famous Miserere and music by Bruckner and Mauersberger.
Good Friday 10 April 2020 7.00 pm at Leeds Minster.

Programme
Christus factus est pro nobis |
Anton Bruckner |
Miserere |
Gregorio Allegri |
Wie liegt die Stadt so wust |
Rudolf Mauersberger |
Penthos |
Matthew Oglesby |
Lucy Appleyard | mezzo |
Quentin Brown | bass |
St Peter’s Singers
National Festival Orchestra
Alasdair Jamieson
conductor
St Peter’s Singers’ presentation of Music for Good Friday is an annual event, given by kind permission of Leeds Minster. It provides an opportunity to hear one of the great works of the sacred oratorio repertoire in a context than a concert hall performance on a Saturday evening cannot provide, and at a price that more people can afford.
Past works receiving performance include:
- Bach’s St John Passion
- Bach’s B Minor Mass
- Handel’s Messiah
- Brahms’ German Requiem
- Dvorak’s Stabat Mater
- Haydn’s Stabat Mater
For more insights and opinion, read our blog!
Public parking is available on the street and in the car park opposite the Palace Hotel at the eastern end of Leeds Minster. This may be free of charge on Good Friday, but you are advised to check this with the City authorities. There is also a large NCP car park next to Leeds Markets on the other side of the railway.