Colours of France Beautiful French music in the glorious St Albans Cathedral

St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Sat 14th May 2022, 7:30pm - 10:00pm

St Albans Abbey, Sumpter Yard, St Albans, AL1 1BY

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: Gloriana Choir, Musical Director: Deborah Miles-Johnson

Debussy: Nocturnes, with Gloriana
Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne with Jessica Cale, soprano
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3, Organ Symphony with Andrew Parnell, organ
Poulenc: Ave verum corpus
Faurè: Cantique de Jean Racine

Debussy’s Nocturnes paints ‘sound portraits’, of clouds (Nuages), festivals (Fêtes) and sirens (Sirènes) with a wordless chorus of 16 female voices.

Chants d’Auvergne is a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France arranged for soprano voice and orchestra.

Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No.3 features the mighty Cathedral organ in two of its four movements.