What the critics say

"Quality and excitement are two words that just about sum up the first few days of the International Organ Festival at St Albans and its Festival of Summer Music. The first major concert of the festival was staged with St Albans Bach Choir and Mosaic Chamber Choir joining forces for an outstanding performance of Elgar’s choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius.
The members of Mosaic, singing semi-chorus parts, really stood out with quite amazing clarity and purity of sound while the Bach Choir gave a flawless performance with exquisite dynamics and tonal quality. Once more Andrew Lucas showed himself to be a complete master of his art."
Herts Advertiser 14 July 2011

"... Saturday's performance of Handel's oratorio Solomon by the St Albans Bach Choir was a classic example of the outstanding quality which is regularly achieved in the district. The choir's performance under conductor Andrew Lucas was just about as good as it gets."
Herts Advertiser 25 March 2010

"With an assurance one has grown to expect, the St Albans Bach Choir staged the opening concert of the International Organ Festival at St Albans on Saturday. Singing in a packed St Albans Abbey the choir, under its music director Andrew Lucas, enthralled its audience with outstanding performances of Poulenc's Gloria and Brahms's German Requiem... left little to be desired as Andrew Lucas once more showed his outstanding skill at managing a large choir, and the members responded brilliantly to his challenge."
Herts Advertiser 16 July 2009

‘‘The choir proved itself more than equal to the challenge to once more demonstrate what makes them a fine group of musicians’’