Eternal Light

With soloists:

David Cane, Stephen Newlove, Hayley Swanton

Our November concert features two works where light in a metaphorical sense plays an important role: Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light. The light they talk about may be the effulgence of God’s being, but the moving, atmospheric and beautiful music they contain will also illuminate the short, dark days as we approach the winter solstice. Morten Lauridsen may be familiar to many via his - justifiably - immensely successful Christmas song O Magnum Mysterium. Lux Aeterna takes us once again into Lauridsen’s soundworld, identifiable from the very first chord. So if you love O Magnum Mysterium, you’ll love Lux Aeterna.

Howard Goodall is perhaps best known for the theme tune for The Vicar of Dibley. Eternal Light is an intensely moving work that charts the movement from the grief of bereavement towards the light of everlasting hope, explored through poems sung by choir and soloists. So we're in for a treat of beautiful, tuneful, hopeful, thought-provoking and comforting music - see you there!

This programme is provisional and may be subject to change.

Booking available four weeks before the concert.