2025 Lambourn Good Friday Concert
S. S. Wesley—The Wilderness Ascribe Unto The Lord
St Michael and All Angels Church, Lambourn
Friday 18th April 2025 at 7:30pm
Admission free
Retiring Collection for Organ Restoration Fund
The augmented choir of St. Michael and All Angels’ Church will give its 30th concert on Good Friday, April 18th, at 7.30pm. The main work is the Requiem by Bob Chilcott, which was written in 2010. This is the most modern piece we have ever performed, but please don’t let that put you off! It is full of rich harmonies and beautiful melodies.
Bob Chilcott was born in Plymouth in 1955. He sang in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, both as a boy and as an undergraduate. (I still have the 1967 recording of Fauré’s Requiem in which the treble soloist for the Pie Jesu was one Robert Chilcott). In 1985 he joined the King’s Singers and sang with them as a tenor for twelve years. His Requiem was premiered in 2010 in the Sheldonian Theatre by the Oxford Bach Choir.
The first half of the concert is devoted to music by the 19th century composer Samuel Sebastian Wesley. This will include two large-scale anthems, The Wilderness, and Ascribe unto the Lord. There will also be two works for solo organ.
The soloists will be Tamsin Slatter and Gordon Fry. The concert will be conducted by Susan Norman, and Stephen Holmes will be playing the Grade 2 listed Father Willis organ.
There will be a retiring collection in aid of the organ restoration fund.
Stephen Holmes
