Our Queen came to the throne almost exactly sixty years ago to the date of this concert, on 6 February 1952, and 2012 sees the celebrations of her Diamond Jubilee. Some of the music from her splendid coronation features in this programme, contrasted with works from the reign of her illustrious predecessor Elizabeth I. Join us [...]
The Chamber Choir was saddened to learn of the death on 12 January 2012 of its President, Lady Rosalind Runcie. Our condolences to Lady Runcie’s family. Lady Runcie’s funeral will be held in St Albans Cathedral on Friday 3 February 2012 at 2.30pm.
Strange but true! Local choir, St Albans Chamber Choir can be seen in a soon-to-be-released film starring British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, famous for his role in the BBC’s series Sherlock and the recent film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The filmWreckers was recently premiered to great acclaim at the London Film Festival in October but will have its UK release on [...]
St Albans Chamber Choir is joined by the Abbey Girls Choir for a performance of Britten’s strikingly original settings of old English Christmas texts, A Boy was Born. Get in the mood for the festivities with this and other seasonal offerings from composers from Palestrina and Gabrieli to Poulenc and John Tavener, on Saturday 3 December [...]
Enjoy a trip to the Seaside, venture Full Fathom Five below the waves to meet a Mermaid, and experience a Cloudburst, all without leaving St Albans! Join us for our last concert of the season, Water, water everywhere, on Saturday 2 July at 7.30pm in St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane AL1 4DF
SACC welcomed the Wormser Kantorei, its long-time partner choir from St Albans’s German twin-town Worms, for the 22nd joint concert in their long association. On Saturday 30 April 2011 in St Albans Cathedral the joint choirs performed Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, soloists Anna Gorbachyova (soprano) and Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone), and Johannes Brahms’s Schicksalslied, accompanied by St [...]
This could be your last chance to enjoy the wonderful acoustic of the neo-Gothic Chapel of All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney (AL2 1AF), as the Centre is due to close later this year. Come and hear masterpieces of the English Renaissance by Byrd, Gibbons, Ramsey and Tye, and the monumental 19-part O bone Jesu by the [...]
A capacity audience at St Saviour’s enjoyed an exciting evening of jazz-inspired music on Saturday 15 January 2011. Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals and Karl Jenkins’ A Parliament of Owls in the first half went down well, but it was Will Todd’s Mass in Blue that really seized the imagination of performers and listeners alike. This upbeat setting of the [...]
Bethany Halliday is best known for her recording of Will Todd’s Mass in Blue which was released on the Signum Classics label in 2006. Described as ‘An addictive listen’ by the Daily Express, Bethany premiered Mass in Blue at The Cambridge Corn Exchange in 2003 and has continued to perform the work frequently since that time. Venues [...]
Late but great for choir’s concert (Herts Advertiser 25 November 2011) WHO would turn out on a cold, dank November evening to sit in a church listening to music written by deceased composers in honour of the dead? Well, last Saturday, the nave of St Peter’s Church was packed with people doing just that. In [...]