Saturday 17 October 2009 at 7.30pm  – St Albans Abbey

 

St Cecilia Festival Society 

Verdi Requiem 

Verdi’s dramatic and powerful setting of the Requiem text ensures an evening of high emotional intensity and vivid drama in the magnificent setting of St Albans Abbey.

Tickets are available from  0845 058 3912 (local call rate) or by e-mail - click here (this concert only)

Saturday 12 December 2009 at 7.30pm – All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney 

This Worldes Joie 

An evening of richly atmospheric music foretelling and then celebrating the birth of Christ in the sumptuous acoustic of All Saints Pastoral Centre chapel. Guest saxophonist David Wigram adds a distinctively rich sound palette to the sounds of unaccompanied choral singing.

Saturday 27 February 2010 at 7.30pm  – St Albans Abbey 

Gloria: Music for Choir and Brass 

Singing with brass instruments has a long and distinguished history, with the Venetian composers of the sixteenth century placing choirs of singers and brass players in all four corners of St Mark’s Basilica to dramatic effect. Fine examples from Germany and England conclude with one of John Rutter’s most popular pieces, his Gloria.

 

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Saturday 24 April 2010 at 7.30pm  - St Peter's Church, St Albans 

Petite Messe Solennelle 

Rossini came out of his Parisian retirement to write this cheerful and tuneful setting of the Mass. We also present works by Delius and Fauré, who lived in Paris during their lives, whilst Morten Lauridsen’s Nocturnes set one of Rilke’s French poems along with one each by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and the American James Agee.

 

Saturday 12 June 2010 at 7.30pm  – St Albans Abbey 

Mahler and Schoenberg 

The Chamber Choir joins forces with St Albans Symphony Orchestra to present Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, preceded by Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden.

 

Saturday 26 June 2010 at 7.30pm  – All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney 

Peace 

Randall Thompson was one of the great American composers of the twentieth century. The Peaceable Kingdom was inspired by the painting of the same name by the nineteenth-century American artist Edward Hicks. In this remarkable unaccompanied work, Thompson contrasts the reward of the righteous with the torment of the wicked. Schoenberg’s early a cappella work Friede auf Erden is a richly romantic work setting a text by the Swiss poet C. F. Meyer. Pro Pace, a cycle of three unaccompanied Latin motets, by John Joubert is a beautiful work of great emotional power.

 

Tickets are available from the Ticket Secretary on 0845 658 8982 (local call rate) or by e-mailing "tickets"