BBC Radio 3 – Choral Evensong 11th July 2012

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As part of the Chester Summer Music Festival this year, the cathedral choir will be broadcasting Choral Evensong live on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 11th July at 4pm.

The music will include a premiere of The Chester Service by Francis Pott and "These
Three" by Richard Rodney Bennett which was commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster in 2007 to mark the Diamond Anniversary of the marriage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and is included in the recently published Choir Book for Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

The anthem will be Blest Pair of Sirens by Parry.

Holy Week and Easter 2011

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Palm Sunday Procession

Following Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week, the Cathedral Choir will be singing a number of special services through Holy Week and into Easter.

Good Friday 22nd April 10am

Good Friday Liturgy:
Sanders – Reproaches
Dvorak – Blessed Jesu
Ducasse – Crux Fidelis

Easter Eve 23rd April 8pm

Easter Eve Vigil:
Walton – Missa Brevis
Mawby - Exultet
Ducasse – Crux Fidelis

Easter Day 24th April

10am Eucharist:
Haydn – St Nicholas Mass
Ledger – This joyful Eastertide

3:30pm Evensong:
Jackson in G
RVW – Rise Heart, The Call, and Let all the World from the Five Mystical Songs

Happy Christmas from Chester Cathedral Choir

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Chester Cathedral Choir wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Listen to choral evensong which broadcast on Weds 22nd December, available on iPlayer

Come to the Christmas services; 9 Lessons and Carols on 23rd Dec @6:30pm or 24th Dec @3:30pm, Midnight mass sung by the Nave Choir at 11:15pm on 24th Dec or Christmas Eucharist on 25th December at 10am

Holy Week and Easter 2010

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The Cathedral Choir celebrated Palm Sunday in the usual way with Weelkes’  rousing “Hosanna to the Son of David” sung under the Norman arch followed by a plainsong procession through the city centre, past the town hall and into the cathedral through the main west doors.

Services during Holy Week at which the choir sang included:

2nd April – Good Friday Liturgy (Sanders Reproaches, Allegri Miserere)
3rd April –  Easter Vigil and confirmation (Dove Missa Brevis)
4th April –  Easter Day Eucharist (Haydn Little Organ Mass, Now the Green Blade Riseth)

Back from Bruges and ready for Advent

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Having returned from the Paris/Bruges tour which took place over the October half term, the choir are new revitalised and refreshed ready to take on the music of the festive season.

Read more about the different perspectives on the tour from a lay clerk and from the head chorister and listen to the podcast attached to this post by clicking the play button.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS DURING ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS

Sunday 29th November, 2009 at 6:30pm

Candlelight Procession and music for advent by Byrd, Palestrina, Stanford, Wise and Ledger.

Wednesday 23rd December, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Nine Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cathedral Choir

Thursday 24th December, 2009 at 3:00pm

Nine Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cathedral Choir

Visit to Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, 5th July 2009

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On 5th July, the girls’ choir will be visiting Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to sing evensong, conducted by Chester Cathedral’s previous Director of Music, David Poulter.

The girls’ will sing along side the girls’ choir of Liverpool Cathedral.

The service will begin at 3 P.M.