On Saturday 1st December at 7.30pm the Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society will be giving a performance of the great oratorio Elijah by Mendelssohn. This performance will mark the culmination of the Choral Society’s 80th Anniversary year, having been created in 1938 as a ‘Special Choir’ to support Llandaff Cathedral Choir in performance of larger scale works. In 1960, following a hiatus caused by the Second World War and the bombing of the Cathedral, the Special Choir became Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society and was, until 1990, conducted by the Cathedral’s Director of Music.

The concert will feature soloists Owain Browne, Alison Shone, Hannah Poulsom, Huw Ynyr and Jack Parry with the British Sinfonietta, and will be directed by LCCS Musical Director Alexander Thacker.

Tickets, priced at £15 or £7.50 for students, are available from Garlands on Llandaff High Street or through the LCCS website www.llandaffcathedralchoralsociety.org.uk

On Wednesday 14th November at 7.00pm, Gareth Price gives a recital as the culmination of his work for PhD at Cardiff University.

Programme to include Plainchant inspired compositions by Maurice Durufle with additional works by Bach, Franck, Tournemire, Daquin and Clerambault.

All are welcome to attend to hear Gareth put the 2010/13 Nicholson Organ through its paces in an imaginative and engaging programme.

Admission will be FREE with a retiring collection in aid of Llandaff Cathedral.

The Cathedral marked the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day over the weekend of 10th and 11th November.

As part of these events the Cathedral hosted a National Service of Remembrance on the afternoon of Sunday 11th November. This service was broadcast live by the BBC and S4C and the link to the broadcast can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brg9rm/wales-remembers-live-from-llandaff-cathedral?suggid=b0brg9rm

 

Cantemus Chamber Choir, directed by Huw Williams, will be joined by soloists Elin Manahan Thomas, Rachael Cox, Andrew Henley and Craig Bissex plus orchestra for their Remembrance Concert on Saturday 10th November at 7.30pm.

The concert, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, features two contrasting pieces; Joseph Haydn’s Nelson Mass (written in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, and Maurice Durufle’s Requiem (commissions in 1941 and based on atmospheric Gregorian Plainchant).

Tickets £20/£17(over 65)/£10(student/u18/unwaged)
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cantemus-chamber-choir

 

The first commercial recording of Llandaff Cathedral’s 2010/13 Nicholson Organ which was made in 2017 by Director of Music, Stephen Moore has recently been released on the Priory Records label.  

The disc is available to buy from the Cathedral Shop priced at £12 and includes works by Spicer, Alain, Dupre, Quinn, Sowerby, Whitlock and Carter, amongst others, and is intended to show off the huge palette of colours that are available on this fantastic instrument.