David Bednall's St Mark Passion

St Mark Passion: a new setting by David Bednall
The BBC Singers give the world premiere of a dramatic setting of the passion story. As David Bednall writes: 'The work focuses particularly on the human drama and tragedy at the heart of the Gospel, which features a number of characters making difficult and frequently wrong decisions, but ones which can be understood perhaps in context... St Mark’s Gospel is considered to be the first of the canonical accounts and in the original it ends as it does here, with the disciples fleeing the empty tomb in terror and saying nothing to anyone as they were afraid.'

David Bednall: St Mark Passion (WP)
With a libretto taken from William Tyndale’s translation of the Gospel of St Mark, arranged by The Reverend Canon Neville Boundy.
BBC Singers
Brass and percussion ensemble from the Orchestra of English National Opera
Andrew Lumsden (organ)
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)