image courtesy of St Columba's Presbyterian Church of Scotland, London

London July 2008

The Choir gave a recital in Saint Columba's Church, Pont Street at 7:30 pm on Saturday 12 July and the following evening the choir members joined the massed choirs in the Royal Albert Hall for a performance of The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins in the second half of a programme which also included the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky and extracts from the Planets Suite by Holst.

Programme for Saturday 12 July

J.S. Bach: Jesu Christ meins Lebens licht
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Palestrina/Poulenc/Lauridsen: three settings of O magnum mysterium
Bruckner: Locus iste
Dupré: O salutaris
Greig: Ave maris stella
Tchaikovsky: Dostoino yest

J.S. Bach: Jesu, joy of man's desiring
Franck: Panis angelicus
Josquin Desprez/Stravinsky/Dupré/Rachmaninov: four settings of Ave Maria
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Tavener: The Lamb
Finzi: God is gone up

Massed choirs in the Albert Hall
(photograph courtesy of David Way)