Auld Alliance Concert with The Choir of St Giles’ Cathedral – SOLD OUT!

Thu 23 Oct at 6.30pm

Join the Choir of St Giles’ Cathedral for a spectacular evening of choral music celebrating the 730th anniversary of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France! Expect a moving blend of Scottish and French music performed in the majestic setting of St Giles’, echoing centuries of cultural friendship. 

The Choir of St Giles’ Cathedral is an adult choir of thirty singers drawn from a wide variety of walks of life from the City of Edinburgh and further afield. Their main task is the singing of the two Sunday morning choral services, the 9 o’clock Holy Communion and the 11.30 Morning Service, under the direction of The Master of the Music, Jack Oades. In addition to this they sing on many special civic and national occasions, such as the Installations of the Order of the Thistle.

St Giles’ Cathedral, founded in 1124, is situated on the Royal Mile and has been at the centre of Scottish history for many centuries.

Bookings

Programme

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) – Kyrie Eleison (from Messe Solenelle) 

Guillaume Dufay (c1397-c1474) – Ave Maris Stella 

James MacMillan (b. 1959) – O Radiant Dawn 

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) – Notre Père 

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) – Cantique de Jean Racine 

Gabriel Fauré – Sicilienne (Pelléas et Mélisande) 

James MacMillan – White-note paraphrase 

Pierre Villette (1926-1998) – Hymne à la Vierge 

James MacMillan – A New Song

Fraser MacDonald – Leaving St Kilda

Loch Lomond – Traditional, arr. David Overton  

Louis Vierne – Gloria in Excelsis – (from Messe Solennelle)

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