Join us for concerts during Lent, including two masterwork Passions and four Friday evening performances of smaller and contrasting settings of the Mass, Stabat Mater, and Bach motets.
As the church goes into its most contemplative time of the liturgical year the National Cathedral and its resident Cathedral Choral Society offers a Lenten Series of concerts that truly reflect the rich heritage of music composed for the Lenten season. The three known settings of the St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. John Passions by J.S. Bach will provide the bedrock of this series. Additionally there will be three very different settings of the Requiem mass by Victoria, Howells, and Duruflé and two contrasting settings of the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi and Alessandro Scarlatti.
The Cathedra ensemble is the National Cathedral’s professional concert ensemble under the direction of Michael McCarthy. The group is newly formed for this Lenten series and is comprised of singers and players from the DC area and beyond. Cathedra is a versatile ensemble that performs music spanning the last millennium up to the present day.
