Virtual Performance - Balfour Gardiner's Evening Hymn

Following a few months of virtual performances, online masterclasses and choral projects, we wanted to end the summer and start the new season with something special. Chosen by you, Henry Balfour Gardiner's 'Evening Hymn' came top of the online vote and we were joined by so many different singers to perform the piece. 'Evening Hymn' is Gardiner's most popular work and is a setting of the Latin compline hymn "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Thee, Lord, before the close of day").
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Directed by Ralph Allwood, MBE
Accompanied by Glen Dempsey, Assistant Director of Music at Ely Cathedral
Audio editing and mixing by Alexander James
Assistant audio editing by Helen Bennett
Video compositing, animation and editing by Matthew Norriss, Piraxa Studios
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[@judithwhitehouse2149]

Some familiar faces in that Wall of Sound! many thanks to all, especially Glen who must have been terrified when the console relocated to the centre of a window...!

[@michaelgamble296]

Thank you Ralph, for putting this wonderful Balfour Gardiner's glorious masterpiece on line! Ely! I sang there with my legs in plaster in June/July 1947 as a Chorister of the Peterborough Cathedral Choir along with the Ely Cathedral and Norwich Cathedral choirs at the then annual Three Choirs' Festival. Unfortunately this annual event seems to have fallen by the way-side. Pity. I cannot remember what we sang at this Service but I have very strong memories of singing this at Peterborough and then, afterwards, going into the Cloisters to be greeted with the aromatic smell from the Sugar Beet factories! May I make a small suggestion? Why not mix your vast choir with the natural acoustic of the Cathedral to give the sound that extra 'reality' . . . . When the choir stops singing I miss the reverberant after-sound so defining to a Cathedral Choir! Let us hear more . . . more . . . . more! Michael.