Three Choirs TONITE! It realli is....

[ardcarp]

Not THE 3 Choirs, but The Temple Curch, St Pauls and St Albans.

At St Albans Abbey at 7.30pm tonight.


Andrew Carwood, Roger Sayer and Andrew Lucas conductors
Pier Damiano Peretti organ
Elizabeth Bass harp
Rebecca McChrystal percussion



NICOLAI Festival Overture on Ein feste burg
Choral works by VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, WHITACRE and HOLST
TIPPETT Five Spirituals
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms

Sorry this is such a last minute posting, but it should be quite a treat for anyone who lives nearby.

[DracoM]

What a Holy Trinity!

[underthecountertenor]

BBC R3 are recording it for future broadcast.

[BBMmk2]

Keep us posted!!!

[DracoM]

Excellent news!

[underthecountertenor]

A little bird tells me that, with the end of the Proms in sight, this concert will be broadcast on Tuesday 19th September at 7.30 pm.
In addition to the specific items listed above, all sung by the 3 choirs together, the concert consisted of:
Holst: The Evening Watch (sung by St Paul's)
Vaughan Williams: Credo from Mass in G Minor (sung by Temple)
Whitacre: Lux Aurumque (sung by St Albans)
Wesley: Ascribe Unto The Lord (sung by the 3 choirs).
(Together with some organ music, and, possibly, an encore - my memory fails me).

[Stanfordian]

A little bird tells me that, with the end of the Proms in sight, this concert will be broadcast on Tuesday 19th September at 7.30 pm.
In addition to the specific items listed above, all sung by the 3 choirs together, the concert consisted of:
Holst: The Evening Watch (sung by St Paul's)
Vaughan Williams: Credo from Mass in G Minor (sung by Temple)
Whitacre: Lux Aurumque (sung by St Albans)
Wesley: Ascribe Unto The Lord (sung by the 3 choirs).
(Together with some organ music, and, possibly, an encore - my memory fails me).

Hiya underthecountertenor,

Sounds good!

[underthecountertenor]

Here's the full programme. Nice to see that there'll be an acknowledgment of Peter Hurford, the festival's founder, in the interval.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095y8fp

[ardcarp]

Reminder: Tuesday 19th September at 7.30 pm

Yes, Peter. Hurford....an excellent interval choice. A great choir-trainer and fine (IMO one of the best) performer and recording artist of Bach's organ works. A West Country lad to boot.

[underthecountertenor]

Reminder: Tuesday 19th September at 7.30 pm

Yes, Peter. Hurford....an excellent interval choice. A great choir-trainer and fine (IMO one of the best) performer and recording artist of Bach's organ works. A West Country lad to boot.

God be in Minehead.

[ardcarp]

God be in Minehead.

[ardcarp]

..it really is tonight. See Alpie's post...St Albans International Organ Festival

[ardcarp]

Well, that was a bit of a feast. Made all the more remarkable by the fact that the choirs (as I understand it) only got together on the day of the concert. Some excellent direction of the massed choirs by all three DoMs.

OMG The Temple really went for it in the RVW Credo. They do not meet as regularly as the other choirs. Quite remarkable IMVHO. Just wish I'd been there on the day of the concert in July.

[chitreb]

I have now caught up on iPlayer and I found the concert thoroughly enjoyable, particularly the Chichester Psalms (confession time: despite my age and Chichester being my alma mater it is the first time I have heard them, gulp).

[ardcarp]

Do listen to the more fully orchestrated version sometime.

This one for instance is conducted by Lenny himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yhnml4DW9g