Pre Concert Talk  by Peter Leech will be at 7 pm in the Chapel

Collegium Singers, exploring beautiful music

Musical Director Peter Leech

Organ David Bednall

This concert features a selection of inspirational 20^th and 21^st century Settings of the canticles,  including Herbert Howells’ monumental ‘St.Pauls’ Service’, juxtaposed with more recent items by Cheltenham-based composer Ian Higginson and virtuoso Bristol-based organist/composer David Bednall. His sonorous, rhythmically-charged works for choir and organ are receiving wide acclaim in the UK and abroad. The composer wioll play the organ  for his ‘Gloucester Service’ and the second concert performance of his Magna voce cane et magno cum jubilo for solo organ.

The concert also features anthems by Finzi, Bairstow, Rogers, a rare performance of Britten’s music for the radio play ‘The Way to the Tomb’ (1945) and the concert premiere of Set me as a seal upon thine heart by the choir’s conductor Peter Leech.