Passiontide Concert | The Choir of St Cuthbert's Church

The season of Lent has inspired some of the most beautiful and powerful music ever written. In this Passiontide concert, St Cuthbert’s Church Choir presents a deeply reflective programme of choral masterpieces for the season.

The programme features Allegri’s spellbinding Miserere and Lotti’s intensely dramatic Crucifixus, alongside treasures of the English Renaissance: Tallis’s profound Lamentations of Jeremiah and Byrd’s heartfelt anthem Ne irascaris, Domine. These choral works are woven together with some of Bach’s most moving chorale preludes, performed by Bach specialist and St Cuthbert’s Director of Music, Alexander Pott.

Set within the warm acoustics and opulent grandeur of St Cuthbert’s Church, this concert offers a wonderful opportunity for stillness, reflection, and spiritual renewal through music of extraordinary beauty.

Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei

J S Bach - Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV 641

Thomas Tallis - Lamentations I

J S Bach - Ich ruf zu dir BWV 642

William Byrd - Ne irascaris

J S Bach - O Mensch, bewein BWV 622

Thomas Tallis - Lamentations II

J S Bach - O lamm Gottes, unschuldig BWV 618

Antonio Lotti - Crucifixus à 8

Alexander Pott conductor/organist

Alexander Pott is an organist, conductor, and academic. As well as being Director of Music at St Cuthbert’s, Earl’s Court, he works as a freelance organist and in 2025 released a CD of ‘The Eule Organ of Magdalen College, Oxford’ on the Convivium label, receiving excellent reviews. Fanfare Magazine concluded that ‘Pott is a superb organist’, whilst Choir & Organ Magazine described the recording as ‘particularly inspired… warmly recommended’. Previous projects include performingall of Bach’s organ works in 2023, raising over £10,000 for charity in the process. He is also a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the music of Frederick Delius, a specialism which feeds into his performance interests, notably through The Delius Singers, a choir he founded and directs in Oxford. Working with children’s choirs has always been an important strand in his work, and having previously been both Assistant Organist and Acting Director of Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, he is delighted to be the Director of the Nave Choir at the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy, where the best choristers from the UK’s cathedrals and chapels sing together for a week. His studies took place at Christ Church Oxford, Westminster Cathedral, and New College, Oxford, supplemented by support from the Musicians’ Company and the Eric Thompson Trust, and his academic training has been supported by the Delius Trust.

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