The Beatitudes by Arthur Bliss – review

Coventry CathedralEvents to mark this year's 50th anniversary of the consecration of Coventry Cathedral have already included a performance of the most famous work composed for the occasion. But Britten's War Requiem was by no means the only commission in 1962; new works from Lennox Berkeley and Wilfrid Mellers, as well as Michael Tippett's second opera, King Priam, were first performed in the city, and there was also a cantata from the then Master of the Queen's Music, Arthur Bliss, which was c...

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