Sat 9th May 2020, 7:30pm
In association with the Hertfordshire Festival of Music
St Albans Abbey
Sumpter Yard
St Albans
AL1 1BY
Conductor: Tom Hammond
Soloist: Susana Gaspar (soprano), Andrew Parnell (organ), Gloriana, Women in Harmony (Musical Director: Deborah Miles-Johnson)
Debussy: Nocturnes
Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3, Organ Symphony
Poulenc: Litanies
Debussy’s three Nocturnes were inspired by a series of impressionist paintings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Chants d’Auvergne is an enchanting collection of folk songs from France, in the local Auvergnat language.
The Orchestra’s Vice-President Andrew Parnell joins us on the Cathedral’s organ to play Saint-Saëns’s mighty Symphony No.3.