In Sacred Spaces
Choral Evensong (Lincoln Cathedral)
Wednesday 2 June 2021 at 5:30pm
 
 
  Date:  Wednesday 2 June 2021
  Time: 5:30pm
  Venue:  Lincoln Cathedral, 4 Priorygate, Lincoln, LN2 1PL
 
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The choir were due to sing Choral Evensong in Lincoln Cathedral in Autumn 2020, but the Covid-19 situation led to the booked date being rescheduled to May 2021. We will be singing shortly after Trinity Sunday - and the choir are proposing to sing the same programme as sang at Southwell Minster just a few days earlier. Both visits take place with social distancing and other Covid-19 precautions still being in place for church choirs, and we there are very tight restrictions on the number of singers who can take part.

Our programme is therefore much more modest than our normal visits. We sing our own Musical Director’s setting of the Preces & Responses, written for the Peterborough Diocesan Choral Festival in 2016, and - as is our custom - the Psalm will be sung to a chant by a composer with a connection to Lincoln. The canticles are written by Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-56), whose music tutor and godfather was Thomas Attwood (1765-1838), composer of the anthem (Attwood was himself a pupil of Mozart). The anthem, whilst perfectly suited to the Whitsun season, and ideal for our earlier visit to Southwell Minster, concludes with a Trinitarian verse, which ends “Praise to thy eternal merit: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”.

Please note that both the visit and the proposed music list is subject to approval by the cathedral, which we expect to take place in early May.

Programme:

Northampton Bach Choir
Organist
- Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy

Dunleavy - Preces and Responses
Psalm 81
Mozart - Magnificat, K. 193
Walmisley - Evening Service in D minor
Attwood - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire