Join us on the Fourth Sunday in Advent – Mary’s Sunday – for Durante’s exuberantly joyful setting of the Magnificat. The video is of us singing the opening in 2023 – we can’t hide our love for this wonderful music! Come along on Sunday for this special musical service, featuring Durante’s Magnificat as its centrepiece.... Continue Reading →
For our final evensong for the year, we'll be singing the Howells Gloucester Service. Singing this wonderful music will take us back to our first choir tour, 2017-18, when we sang the Gloucester Service in Gloucester Cathedral. The photos show us rehearsing in the Cathedral and the Chapter House, and exploring the stunning vaulting of... Continue Reading →
The Adelaide Cantata Band will be presenting J.S. Bach’s “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” (BWV 140) in our 11am service, Sunday 30 November. “Wachet auf” (Sleepers wake, the voice is calling) is one of Bach’s best-known and best-loved cantatas. The opening chorus is counted amongst Bach’s all-time greatest choral movements: the sopranos sing the... Continue Reading →
Recital: 2:30pm Sunday 23 November A true giant of the organ world, Daniel Roth has held the post of organiste titulaire at Saint-Sulpice in Paris since 1985 (emeritus since 2023). He follows in the hallowed tradition of Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré as curator of the historic Cavaillé-Coll organ there. Roth has mesmerized organ music... Continue Reading →
At our November evensong we’ll be singing the Dyson Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D. This is one of the settings we’ll be singing in St Paul’s Cathedral, London (photos), on our forthcoming tour. Despite this piece being an old favourite, we will need our wits about us singing in the enormous acoustic of St... Continue Reading →
1pm Thursday 23 October Our next international organist is Alana Brook, originally from Adelaide, but now Assistant Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral, UK. Alana will be giving the next free lunchtime organ recital at Pilgrim.
At our next evensong we'll be singing the Brewer Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D. Pictured is beautiful Chester Cathedral, where we'll be singing this setting on our Choir Tour after Christmas (of course it's not going to snow when we're there!). Images: view down nave: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; cloisters: Mum's... Continue Reading →
We are very much looking forward to the visit of French organist Jean-Baptiste Robin, who will be giving a recital at Pilgrim on Sunday 14 September at 2:30pm. Jean-Baptiste has been organist at the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles since 2010. There are many organists in the world who can brag about working... Continue Reading →
We are looking forward excitedly to the visit of Jean-Baptiste Robin, Organist of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles, who will be giving a recital at Pilgrim on Sunday 14 September at 2:30pm. Jean-Baptiste will be our fifth visitor in our 2025 International Organist Series, in the busiest year yet for this program.... Continue Reading →