 |
2024 |
|
2023 |
|
2022 |
|
2021 |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
|
2018 |
|
2017 |
|
2016 |
|
|
2015 |
|
2014 |
|
|
Evensong for Her Majesty the Queen
11 April 2018
Earlier this evening forty members of the choir (the maximum which
could be accommodated) sang Choral Evensong at St George’s Chapel,
Windsor. Part of a series of Choral Evensong visits which began in
October 2011 when we sang at Gloucester Cathedral (and following
further visits to Coventry, Lichfield, Peterborough, and St Paul’s
Cathedrals), this was our first visit of 2018 – we sing in Worcester
Cathedral in July.
Our Listing on the Windsor Music Scheme
|
Our programming this season has enabled us to include a suitable
anthem (Dupré Laudate Dominum) and setting of the evening
Canticles (in C major, by Bryan Kelly) in our concerts, so we have
been able to “double up” our performances by singing these works not
only in concert, but also in Windsor (and later in Worcester).
Indeed, we were delighted to welcome Bryan Kelly to Windsor to hear
us perform his setting – “me in C” – and in our concert later this
month we give the first performance of his instrumentation of this
work (percussion, harp, and organ) designed to match that of another
work in the concert programme, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms
(both works were commissioned for the Southern Cathedrals Festival
in Chichester Cathedral in 1965).
Her Majesty the Queen was in residence
|
|
The Choir outside the West Front
|
We received a very warm welcome from the staff and clergy, not
least from a number of familiar faces who were there not for
Evensong, but for a drinks reception for Her Majesty the Queen’s
Chaplains (which sadly meant that HMQ wasn’t able to be with us for
Evensong!).
The Queen's Chaplains Gather
|
|
Bryan Kelly came from Somerset to hear us
|
Alongside the works by Dupré and Kelly, we sang our own Musical
Director’s set of Responses commissioned for the Peterborough
Diocesan Choral Festival in 2017, and Psalm 11 to a chant by Sir
Henry Walford Davies, who was both a chorister and organist at St
George’s Chapel. Our organist, Ivan Linford, performed two organ
works with close association with St George’s – Sir William Henry
Harris’s (Organist 1933-61) Prelude in G, and Sidney
Campbell’s (Organist 1961-74) Gaudeamus.
|
