Quo Vadis is a cycle of poems for chorus and orchestra in nine movements, composed between 1936 and 1945 by George Dyson.
It has been described as an "anthology cantata", using poems by multiple authors to explore a subject—in this case, "where are you going?"
[1] Christopher Palmer summed up the work's theme as "man’s earthly pilgrimage, his spiritual odyssey and its consummation in Shelley’s 'white radiance of Eternity'".
[4] Lewis Foreman related the work to a movement he termed "agnostics at prayer", including other choral compositions of the period such as Sancta Civitas (Vaughan Williams, 1925), Hymnus Paradisi (Howells, 1938), Intimations of Immortality (Finzi, 1950), and Amore Langueo (Ferguson, 1955-56).
[2] Quo Vadis was performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford on 25 July, 2022.