A special visit to Turner Sims in our 50th anniversary year from the BBC Singers, who mark their own centenary in 2024.

The programme includes Joby Talbot’s iconic choral piece Path of Miracles. Over three years in the making, the work was premiered in 2005 and has been captivating audiences worldwide ever since. Based on the most enduring route of Catholic pilgrimage, the great Pilgrimage to Santiago, the four movements are titled with the names of the four main staging posts of the ‘Camino Frances’ – the central axis of a network of pilgrimage routes to the Spanish city.

Reviewing the recent recording of the work, Gramophone hailed its ‘…epic, mystical quality – charged with the same sacred energy that draws listeners to the music of John Tavener and Arvo Pärt.’

I would go as far to suggest that Talbot’s Path of Miracles is to the first decade of the 21st-century what Arvo Pärt’s Passio was twenty years earlier. classicalsource.com

Joby Talbot’s ambitious a cappella Path of Miracles is little short of a musical miracle in itself… It is a tour de force and absolutely stunning. Choir and Organ Magazine

This concert will be recorded for future broadcast

Presented in partnership with the University of Southampton Department of Music

Priority Booking opens Thursday 15 August, 2024, 10am
General Booking opens Thursday 22 August, 2024, 10am
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Price Bands

We are introducing new standard price bands this season to widen access to the joy of live music. Price Bands A – C offer a choice of prices to suit different budgets, depending on where you sit. Price Band C will give everyone the option of accessing lower standard ticket prices than we’ve previously offered.

The Turner Sims Friends 10% discount applies to all price bands and for this event Friends prices are as follows: Band A £27.00, Band B £23.40, Band C £13.50.