They will perform Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, commissioned by the canons of Cadiz Cathedral for the Good Friday Offices of 1787. The programme continues with Kancheli’s A Little Daneliade and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C Minor, op. 110b. Also written for Good Friday, but for the Lutheran city of Leipzig, is Bach‘s St. John Passion, to be performed by John Eliot Gardiner with The English Baroque Soloists and The Monteverdi Choir, with James Gilchrist and Dietrich Henschel as soloists.

Gardiner, who has recorded both this and the St. Matthew Passion for Archiv, is currently engaged in recording cantatas by the Cantor of Leipzig. In another very different program the collaboration between the wind ensemble, Moonwinds, and the Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana will perform Anton Bruckner’s Mass No. 2, a composition for wind instruments and double choir, together with Dvorák’s Serenade for Wind Instruments in D Minor, op. 44. Joan Enric Lluna and Jordi Casas will conduct the concert.

Cristina Pluhar and her ensemble, L’Arpeggiata, which specializes in 17th-century vocal repertoire, are the next contributors to the festival. Accompanied by a group of vocal soloists they will put on a performance of Cavalieri’s allegorical drama, La Rappresentatione di anima e di corpo. The cycle will close with Mozart’s Requiem performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León under maestro Alejandro Posada. María Eugenia Boix, Juan José Lopera, José Antonio López and the University Choir of Valladolid directed by José Martín González will accompany them.