The Northampton Bach Choir have been singing in the sacred spaces of
England since 2011, and over those years have sung at Christ Church
Oxford, Coventry, Gloucester, Lichfield, Peterborough, St Albans,
Winchester, and Worcester Cathedrals, as well as at Westminster
Abbey and St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
Our first visit was planned to be to St Paul’s Cathedral in October
2011, but the “Occupy London” protests closed the Cathedral, and we
instead sang at Gloucester. We did, however, make it to St Paul’s in
October 2012, and again in October 2015, and we are delighted to be
returning again in May 2023.
The programme listed below is subject to confirmation. Our
programming for cathedral visits continues to be guided by bringing
things which are not regularly sung in the repertoire of cathedral
choirs where possible.
Over the 2022/23 season we are featuring music which expands the
canon, and in our Choral Evensong visits we sing the Magnificat and
Nunc Dimittis by mixed-race composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(1875-1912) who was born in Holborn (less than a mile from St Paul’s
Cathedral) and lived for most of his life in Croydon (which is in
the Diocese of Southwark). The anthem is a setting of Psalm 150 by
legendary Canadian composer and pianist Ruth Watson Henderson (b.
1932), and the Responses are by Humphrey Clucas (b. 1941), written
when the composer was an undergraduate and choral scholar at King’s
College, Cambridge.Programme:
Northampton Bach Choir
Conductor
- Hilary Punnett
Preces and Responses - Humphrey Clucas
Psalm 63
Evening Service in F - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Psalm 150 - Ruth Watson Henderson |
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