Vox Cantab’s 2015 summer tour began with a much-anticipated return to the lovely Trefin Chapel, near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, where the Choir were extremely warmly-received in 2013. We also gave a performance in St Mary’s, Haverfordwest, and in St Davids Cathedral, as part of their summer recital series. The week finished with Evensong at the Cathedr2015 Aug VC TUESDAY beach1al, and we were delighted to have Dr Rowan Williams in the congregation.

 

We were pleased to welcome back prize-winning organist Tim Parsons to play and conduct for us once more, along with our director Louisa Denby. The Choir also undertook visits to local hospices and nursing homes as part of our Summer Outreach Project.

 

St Davids 2015 Tour Schedule

Sunday 16th August, 7.30pm
Trefin Chapel, Trefin, Pembrokeshire

Family Concert

The programme included a range of music both sacred and secular, from 16th-century polyphony through to our own arrangements of Welsh Folk Songs. The audience joined in enthusiastically when the opportunity arose!

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Monday 17th August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Haverfordwest

Wednesday 19th August, 7.30pm
St Davids Cathedral, St Davids

Like as the Hart | A Concert of Psalm Settings

In concert.
In concert.

The programme included works by Renaissance composers Byrd, Lassus, and Palestrina, and moving through the centuries Purcell, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, and others, finishing with a new work, ‘The Lord is King’, but our very own Timothy Parsons, and Parry’s iconic ‘I was Glad’.

 

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Tuesday 18th August, 9.30pm

Trefin Chapel, Trefin, Pembrokeshire

Choral Compline

Introit  Jesu, the very thought – Bairstow
Anthem  My soul, there is a country – Parry
Antiphon  Salve Regina – Poulenc

 

 

 

Pre-service hilarity.
Pre-service hilarity.

Thursday 20th August, 6pm
St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire

Evensong

Responses  Reading
Canticles  Tomkins Second
Anthem  Locus iste – Bruckner