The launch of the first commercial recording of Llandaff Cathedral’s 2010/13 Nicholson Organ which was made in 2017 by Director of Music, Stephen Moore will take place on Sunday 30 September.

The CD launch will immediately follow 3.30pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Cathedral Choir and including music by Farrant, Ives and Wesley. At the conclusion of Evensong, Stephen will perform a selection of tracks from the new CD.

CDs will then be available to purchase from the Cathedral for the first time, priced at £12. They will then be available in the Cathedral shop.

Music on the CD 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.

We hope that as many people as possible will be able to join us on this occasion. An event notice is set up on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1870887002994027/

There are to be some slight alterations to weekly and daily service times from September onwards. As the start of the new academic year approaches certain changes have been made to accommodate Llandaff Cathedral School maintaining a weekly pattern of worship in the cathedral. Their regular services will now take place on Friday mornings instead of Thursday meaning the Cathedral’s Eucharist on Friday will now take place at the later time of 10.00am.

In addition to this, the time of daily Evensong or Evening Prayer on all days except for Sunday will be later, beginning at 5.30pm.

All other service times remain unchanged and from September 1st the weekly schedule of services at the Cathedral will be as follows:

Monday

9.30am           Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Tuesday

9.30am           Yr Offeren

12.00noon       Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Wednesday

9.30am           Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Thursday

10.00am         Yr Offeren

11.00am          Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Friday

8.40am           Cathedral School Service

10.00am         Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Saturday

9.30am           Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Sunday

7.30am           Matins (said)

8.00am           Holy Eucharist

9.00am           Parish Eucharist

11.00am          Choral Eucharist

12.30pm          Holy Eucharist

3.30pm            Choral Evensong

On Saturday 15 September Stephen Moore (Director of Music) and David Geoffrey Thomas (Organist) will give a recital of popular organ music at Llandaff Cathedral in aid of the Cathedral Choir’s 2019 tour to Sweden.

The concert, beginning at 7.00pm, will include works by Bach, Guilmant, Vaughan Williams, Vierne and Widor played on the 2010/13 Nicholson Organ.

Members of the audience have also been invited, if they wished, to request a specific piece of music to be played. We were inundated with requests and the results are printed below within the full programme for the recital.

Admission to the concert will be FREE with a retiring collection. There will also be celebratory refreshments served by the Cathedral Choir Association.

The Proposed PROGRAMME is as follows

Alexandre Guilmant – March on a theme by Handel

J S Bach – Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

David Johnson – Trumpet Tune in E-flat

REQUEST Michael Festing – Lardgo, Aria & Variations

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre

Edward Elgar – Imperial March, Op.32

REQUEST Edward Elgar – Chanson de Matin

William Walton – Crown Imperial

Percy Whitlock – Folk Tune

Louis Vierne – Carillon de Westminster

REQUEST Olivier Messiaen – Dieu Parmi Nous

J S Bach – Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D

REQUEST William Mathias – Processional

Charles-Marie Widor – Toccata from Symphonie V, Op.42

 

 

 

The final concert in the Cathedral Summer Concert series takes place on Friday 13 July and will mark the end of the academic year for the Cathedral Choir.

Friday 13 July, 7.00pm
Llandaff Cathedral Choir in Concert

Music to be performed will include:

Handel – Zadok the Priest, Lewis – The souls of the righteous, Gjeilo – Ubi caritas, Lauridsen – O nata lux, Todd – The Call of Wisdom

Tickets for this concert will be priced £10, £8 (concessions) and £5 for students and will be available on the door. The Cathedral Choir Association will serve refreshments at the close of the concert.

Director of Music, Stephen Moore, says “I am greatly looking forward to this year’s Cathedral Choir Concert which will be the last event of the academic year for the choir and will follow hot on the heels of them making a CD recording earlier the same week. It’s always a wonderful occasion and a great opportunity for the choir to perform outside of their usual liturgical role. Much of the music to be performed has been learned over the past academic year, and this concert gives us a chance to reflect on that year and look forward to the next.”

All are assured of a warm welcome.