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concert
Saturday 12 July 2008
Mozart
Requiem
Bruckner Motets
Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae
"The St Albans Bach
Choir’s performance, splendidly controlled under the
unflappable Andrew Lucas — crisp, undemonstrative, and
capably businesslike, who graded Blake’s tempi to ideal
effect — contained much to admire."
Review of Howard Blake's Benedictus in the Church
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St Albans Bach Choir
gave its inaugural concert in March 1924 with a performance of Bach's St
Matthew Passion which, along with Bach's other major choral
works, the choir still regularly performs.
The choir presents a
wide variety of music in its concert programmes, whilst continuing to
perform the major works in the choral repertoire. Christmas concerts in
aid of charity are given every year and the choir has featured on a CD of Christmas
music.
The choir engages
soloists and orchestras of the highest calibre, but also has a
tradition of engaging young singers, many of whom have since developed
international careers.
The
choir is privileged to perform in the Cathedral and
Abbey Church of St Alban, as it has since its
inception. In keeping with tradition, Andrew Lucas, the
Cathedral's Master of the Music, is the choir's Music Director.
Richard Pinel,
Organ Scholar at the Cathedral, is the choir's accompanist.
St Albans Bach Choir
is a member of Making
Music.
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