A lively and dramatic musical performance by composers Haydn, Bach and Tippett will be performed at Peterborough Cathedral on Saturday, March 18.

The cathedral choir, youth choir and festival chorus, along with Peterborough Choral Society, will welcome the newly formed Peterborough Festival Orchestra for a spring concert.

Tansy Castledine, the cathedral’s director of music who is conducting the concert, said: "Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (Mass in a Time of Anxiety) is now often referred to as the Lord Nelson Mass.

"It paints a vivid picture of the political and military turmoil of the Napoleonic wars in a dramatic setting of the mass text. There are trumpets and timpani, busy string writing, and energetic dotted rhythms.

“Bach’s Magnificat is equally dramatic in its telling of the story of Mary, Jesus’ mother, through bold choruses, highly decorated solo instrumental and vocal lines, and intricate polyphony to bring the text alive.

“In between these two works, Michael Tippett’s Five Spirituals from his secular oratorio, A Child of our Time, will be sung unaccompanied by the choirs, providing a contrasting range of choral textures as well as rich harmonies expressing a full range of emotions. It concludes with a glimpse of a 'land where all is peace'."

Tickets for the concert range from £15 to £25, with half price for under 16’s and full time students.

To book, visit: www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk.