Cambridge Chorale Cathedral Classics

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Cambridge Chorale bring the delights of Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor to the stunning setting of St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden on July 9th.

The acclaimed choir, joined by organist Timothy Uglow, will perform a spectacular programme celebrating European sacred music, and ticket holders will be given the chance to listen to Paul Mealor’s Ubi Caritas for the first time since the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge married at Westminster Cathedral.

Maintaining a Royal sense of occasion the concert will also feature Songs Of Farewell by Prince Charles’ favourite composer Hubert Parry.

Cambridge Chorale are at the top of their game performing English sacred choral music and Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor calls them "one of the leading vocal groups in the country."

Mealor said: "Ubi Caritas is gentle, delicate and meditative. The ancient, fourth century plainchant of Ubi Caritas is blended with 21st century harmony to create a work that, I hope, is both new and reflective of the past."

"Cambridge Chorale are one of the leading vocal groups in the country - people need to make time to come and hear them perform this very special, deeply personal work of mine."

"I'm sure they will not regret it and, through Cambridge Chorale's beautiful singing, I hope they will be transported back to The Royal Wedding and the beauty of Westminster Abbey."

The concert will also feature the much-loved Miserere by Gregorio Allegri, a moving setting of Psalm 51 commissioned for the Sistine Chapel by Pope Urban VIII.

And you can expect to hear William Walton’s scintillating mini-cantata The Twelve, which featured in Westminster Abbey’s 900th anniversary.

Other continental gems include Anton Bruckner’s Christus Factus Est, taken from his Chorale Mass for Maundy Thursday, Gabriel Fauré’s hymn Cantique De Jean Racine, and W.A. Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus.

There is also William Byrd’s anthem Sing Joyfully, composed for the Chapel Royal during the reign of Elizabeth I, and Edward Naylor’s Vox Dicentis: Clama.

Doors open from 7pm and the music begins at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden.

EssexTouristGuide.com 6th July 2011

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