The Nayler Passion

Anne and Peter Ullathorne report on another triumph for the Leaveners: the first performance of a new choral work

‘There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end.’   These words of James Nayler are amongst the best loved in Quaker literature, and form the core of the concluding part of a new choral work by Mark Russ and Emily Hunka which has been given its first performance to great acclaim in the Recital Hall of Birmingham Conservatoire.

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