Next Concert

Saturday 14 October 2017, 7:30pm

Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban

Shostakovich - October

Rachmaninov - The Bells (in English)

Borodin -  Polovtsian Dances

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (choral version)

Anna Gorbachyova - Soprano

Geraint Dodd - Tenor

Jeremy White - Bass

St Albans St Cecilia Festival Society Concert

The Hardynge Choir

Radlett Choral Society

St Albans Chamber Choir

St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by John Gibbons

The Bells, one of Rachmaninov’s own favourite works, is a choral symphony set to the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, will be performed in the version for orchestra and chorus.

Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances for orchestra and chorus, is from his opera Prince Igor.

Shostakovich’s Symphonic Poem October, was written exactly 50 years ago to commemorate the Russian revolution of 1917.

Tickets: Available from the Cathedral website:
https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/whatson/music/st-cecilia-festival-chorus

From the Cathedral Box Office located in the Gift Shop

(Mon-Fri, 10.00am to 4.45pm; Sat, 10.00am to 3.45pm; Sun, 1pm to 5pm)

Or Telephone 01727 890290

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