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The Northampton Bach Choir are delighted to visit St Albans
Cathedral for the first time. Their programme of cathedral visits In
Sacred Spaces began in 2012, and including this visit they will have
sung at ... Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Coventry Cathedral Gloucester Cathedral Lichfield Cathedral Peterborough Cathedral St Albans Cathedral St George’s Chapel, Windsor St Paul’s Cathedral Westminster Abbey Winchester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral … as well as Choral Evensong services for the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire at All Saints’ Church, Northampton, and at St Matthew’s Church, Northampton. The canticles sung at the service are Henry Smart’s (1813-79) dramatic Evening Service in Bb with its fanfare introduction, the Preces and Responses by our own Musical Director, and the psalms to chants by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) and Peter Hurford (1930-2019). Hurford was Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Albans Cathedral for twenty years from 1958. The anthem was new to the choir for their visit to Peterborough Cathedral, and gets its second airing on this visit: Charles Wood’s (1866-1926) Expectans expectavi. The service is particularly special as during the proceedings the remains of the 15th century Abbot John of Wheathampstead will be laid to rest in the Chantry Chapel near to the Shrine of St Alban. Abbot John’s Chapel remained undiscovered for 480 years until excavation work on the new Welcome Centre in the early 2020s uncovered his burial site. Three papal bulls that Pope Martin V had given him forty years before his death in January 1465 were found with his skeleton. Programme:Northampton Bach Choir |
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