Welcome to the 53rd season of St Albans Chamber Choir
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Forthcoming concerts 2011/2012
Welcome to our 53rd concert season, in which we look forward to sharing the delights of choral music with an ever-wider audience. For many, the highlight of this season will undoubtedly be Monteverdi’s Vespers in St Albans Cathedral on 19 May 2012, for which we will be joined by distinguished vocal soloists from I Fagiolini and The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Our season opens with a Christmas concert when the Abbey Girls Choir joins us for a performance of Britten’s stunning A Boy was Born and other seasonal music. We begin 2012 with a celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II featuring music from her coronation, followed by a musical Double Bill exploring some of the great works written for double choir. We close the season in September with a programme of music inspired by birds and birdsong featuring some of the loveliest English part-songs. So much to look forward to – we hope you will join us.
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Saturday 3 December 2011
St Saviour’s Church 7.30pm
A Boy was Born
Britten’s A Boy was Born and a programme of evocative Christmas music by Gabrieli, Palestrina, Poulenc and John Tavener
with St Albans Abbey Girls Choir, conductor Tom Winpenny
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Saturday 4 February 2012
St Peter’s Church 7.30pm
Elizabethan Jubilee
A musical celebration of the Queen’s accession, contrasted with music from the first Elizabeth’s reign, featuring Byrd, Gibbons, Handel, Parry and Walton.
with Tom Winpenny organ
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Saturday 17 March 2012
St Saviour’s Church 7.30pm
Double Bill
Exciting works for two choirs including Martin’s stunning Mass for double choir and Stanford’s Magnificat for double choir
with Isabel Beyer and Harvey Dagul piano duet
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Saturday 19 May 2012
St Albans Cathedral 7.30pm
Monteverdi
Vespers of 1610
with vocal soloists from I Fagiolini
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
Robert Hollingworth organ continuo
Tickets: £25, £18, £14 (reserved); £8 (unreserved); £1 (child / student)
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Saturday 22 September 2012
St Peter’s Church 7.30pm
A Night with the Birds
A bird-themed selection of music old and new, including works by Josquin, Monteverdi, Elgar, Stanford, Grainger, Bridge and Jonathan Dove
With piano solos from Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques
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Tickets for all events £13 unless otherwise shown
£1 tickets for children and full-time students available for all concerts
Call 07570 454744 or email tickets@stalbanschamberchoir.org.uk
des Prez Missa Da Pacem
Brian MolesDrop, drop slow tears
Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo
Jacob Handl Pater Noster
The Choir makes a second visit to the Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral in London to sing the first Mass of Sunday (Please note time – Saturday 6pm).This gorgeous building with its sumptuous acoustic is a wonderful venue for this beautiful music.
No tickets required
Saturday 20 November 2010
St Peter’s Church, St Albans7.30pm
Remembrance
Herbert Howells Requiem
Herbert Howells Take him, Earth, for Cherishing
John Ireland Greater Love
J S Bach Jesu meine Freude
With Alex Flood, organ
Loss and faith have both called forth great music.Howells’s acclaimed songs of mourning, his unaccompanied Requiem and the motet Take him, Earth, for Cherishing are contrasted with Bach’s great affirmation of faith, Jesu meine Freude.(64 now 36)
£12.50
Saturday 15 January 2011
St Saviour’s Church, St Albans7.30pm
Post-Christmas Blues
Will Todd Mass in Blue
Karl Jenkins A Parliament of Owls
John Rutter Birthday Madrigals
Soprano soloist, piano, jazz ensemble
Banish those winter blues with a foot-stomping concert of jazz-inspired choral music!The Mass in Blue combines driving jazz rhythms with strong choral writing and a soaring soprano soloist. A Parliament of Owls, is full of catchy melodies and exciting percussion, and the Birthday Madrigals were written in tribute to the great jazz pianist George Shearing. (89 now 56)
£12.50
Saturday 12 March 2011
All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney7.30pm
Intimations of mortality
William ByrdInfelix ego
and works by
Carver, Gibbons, Ramsey, Sheppard, Tye and Gombert
Lute solos
A concert of 16th and 17th century music, mainly from England, meditating on matters of life, death and the hope of eternal life, admirably suited to the resonant acoustic of All Saints Chapel.(65 now 33)
£12.50
Saturday 30 April 2011
St Albans Cathedral 7.30pm
The sea, the sea
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsA Sea Symphony
Johannes BrahmsSchicksalslied
Alan RawsthorneThe Cruel Sea
Soprano and baritone soloists, St Albans Symphony Orchestra
The Chamber Choir and their German twin-town counterpart the Wormser Kantorei meet in the Abbey to perform Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, settings of poems by Walt Whitman. This masterpiece is complimented by Brahms’s Schicksalslied (Song of destiny), and by the suite The Cruel Sea, written for the 1953 film. (70 now 51)
£20, £16, £12 reserved, £12, £5 unreserved
Saturday 2nd July 2011
St Saviour’s Church, St Albans7.30pm
Water, water everywhere…
Richard Rodney Bennett Sea Change
Eric Whitacre Cloudburst
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsFull Fathom Five
Bob Chilcott Weather Report
In an island nation, it is no surprise that many British composers have drawn their musical inspiration from the sea.In this second concert on the theme of water, the programme also reflects that other British obsession – the weather!(66 now 39)
£12.50