Immersive concert with more than 100 musicians of the Britten Sinfonia playing around the cathedral floor, with Tenebrae, the Lincoln Choral Society and the Lincoln Cathedral Choir.
Britten Sinfonia are bringing their Surround Sound Playlist to Lincoln Cathedral on Friday 27 November, and it's not your usual night at the organ. The whole point of the format is to get the music down from the gallery and onto the cathedral floor, with more than 100 musicians playing all around the audience while the lighting shifts to match the mood. It's one stop on a series of five immersive cathedral concerts across the autumn, with Canterbury, Ely, Norwich and Peterborough also hosting the same set.
The programme pulls from a wide range of styles, mixing familiar classics with newer commissions. You'll hear Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Handel's Zadok the Priest, Allegri's Miserere, Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights and Ennio Morricone's Cinema Paradiso suite, alongside new pieces by Caroline Shaw and Ēriks Ešenvalds. The scale of it is the main thing: the Sinfonia is joined by the choir Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short, as well as the Lincoln Choral Society and the Lincoln Cathedral Choir. Soloists Amy Dickson on saxophone and Joseph Tawadros on oud add to the mix, with Zoë Beyers directing the Sinfonia and the choirs.
Because the musicians are spread around the space, where you sit changes how you hear it. There's an Immersive Zone where you're encouraged to sit or lie on the floor, and past crowds have described the experience as "like classical Glastonbury". If you'd rather a chair, there are Transept seats and Premium ones.
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It starts at 7:30pm on Friday 27 November at Lincoln Cathedral, Minster Yard, LN2 1PX. Tickets for the Immersive Zone and Transept Chairs are pay-what-you-can from £6, and Premium Chairs are £40.
