Welcome to the 52nd season of St Albans Chamber Choir.
. . . . in which English music is particularly strongly represented. We open with two beautiful works by Herbert Howells in a programme on the theme of Remembrance (November 20, 2010). The young English composer Will Todd’s jazz-inspired Mass in Blue (January 15, 2011) is a complete contrast and has already become a firm favourite with audiences and performers alike. The Choir returns to more familiar ground with a programme of a cappella early English music in the beautiful chapel at All Saints (March 12, 2011), before joining with the Wormser Kantorei for Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral symphonic masterpiece, A Sea Symphony (April 30,2011). The season ends with the watery theme continuing in Water, water everywhere (July 2, 2011), which features the very popular American composer Eric Whitacre among British contributors.
Tickets are available from the Ticket Secretary on 0845 658 8982 (local call rate) or by e-mailing “tickets”
Saturday 11 September 2010
Westminster Cathedral 6pm
Early Evening Mass
Josquin des Prez Missa Da Pacem
Brian Moles Drop, 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 Albans 7.30pm
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.
£12.50
Saturday 15 January 2011
St Saviour’s Church, St Albans 7.30pm
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.
£12.50
Saturday 12 March 2011
All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney 7.30pm
Intimations of mortality
William Byrd Infelix 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.
£12.50
Saturday 30 April 2011
St Albans Cathedral 7.30pm
The sea, the sea
Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony
Johannes Brahms Schicksalslied
Alan Rawsthorne The 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.
£20, £16, £12 reserved, £12, £5 unreserved
Saturday 2nd July 2011
St Saviour’s Church, St Albans 7.30pm
Water, water everywhere…
Richard Rodney Bennett Sea Change
Eric Whitacre Cloudburst
Ralph Vaughan Williams Full 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!
£12.50
des Prez Missa Da Pacem
Brian Moles Drop, 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 Albans 7.30pm
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 Albans 7.30pm
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 Colney 7.30pm
Intimations of mortality
William Byrd Infelix 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 Williams A Sea Symphony
Johannes Brahms Schicksalslied
Alan Rawsthorne The 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 Albans 7.30pm
Water, water everywhere…
Richard Rodney Bennett Sea Change
Eric Whitacre Cloudburst
Ralph Vaughan Williams Full 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