2025 - March - Journey Around the Moon - concert
Saturday 1st March
(photo: Exeter Cathedral)
Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon first appeared in the cathedral in 2022 (the photo comes from that). It made a repeat appearance in 2025 and again formed the backdrop to the customary Spring Candelight Concert, which this year was to help raise funds for the forthcoming choir tour to France in July.
The audience, as in 2022, brought their own cushions, camping chairs, blankets or other items on which to sit, and followed the choir as they performed around the cathedral. There was no allocated formal seating. A very successful evening.
The concert was conducted by the Assistant Director of Music, Michael Stephens-Jones, as Tmothy Noon, Director of Music, was on sabbatical leave from January to the latter part of the Spring term.
Programme:
- Locus iste – Anton Bruckner
- Urbs Ierusalem beata – Plainsong
- Blessed City – Edward Bairsow
- Dum silentium tenerent omnia – Guillaume Bouzignac
- In Paradisum – Jean-Yves Daniel-Lessur (organ)
- I was glad – Henry Purcell
- My soul, there is a country – C.H.H. Parry
- Justus ut palma – Colin Mawby
Interval
- Apparation de L’Eglise éternelle – Olivier Messiaen (organ)
- Vidi aquam – Plainsong
- Bring us O Lord God – William Harris
- An habitation of thy love – Nico Muhly
- Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes – Heinrich Schütz
- Great is the Lord – Edward Elgar