Collegium Singers open the season  on November 14th in Taunton School Chapel with a programme of 20th and 21st century music  ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord’,  music written by English composers for performance in cathedral and choral church services.  Click here to purchase tickets online. 

The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis canticles for evening worship in the Book of Common Prayer have inspired generations of the finest English composers for more than 450 years. This concert features a selection of 20^th and 21^st century settings, including Herbert Howells’ monumental ‘St.Pauls’ Service’, juxtaposed with more recent items by Cheltenham-based composer Ian Higginson and virtuoso Bristol-based organist/composer David Bednall. Bednall’s sonorous, rhythmically-charged works for choir and organ are receiving wide acclaim in the UK and abroad. We will be joined by the composer playing the organ part for his ‘Gloucester Service’ and the second concert performance of his Magna voce cane et magno cum jubilo for solo organ. The concert also features anthems by Gerald Finzi, Edward Bairstow, Timothy Rogers, a rare performance of Benjamin Britten’s music for the radio play ‘The Way to the Tomb’ (1945) and the concert premiere of Set me as a seal upon thine heart by the choir’s conductor Peter Leech.