Pinner Parish Church Choir

Director & Organist - MARTIN SINGLETON

Russell Pascoe

Hymn to St John the Baptist

Anton Bruckner

Locus Iste

Johannes Brahms

How lovely are thy dwellings

Solos

George Dyson

Magnificat in F

Paul Manz

E'en so, Lord Jesus

John Stainer

God so loved the world

Solos

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Come down O love Divine

Let all the world in every corner sing

 

INTERVAL

 

Felix Mendelssohn

Hear my Prayer

Organ Solo (Martin SIngleton)

Orlando Gibbons

Nunc Dimittis

Ralph Vaughan Williams

All people that on earth do dwell (Old 100th)

Solos

George Frideric Handel

Zadok the Priest

Ralph Vaughan Williams

O Taste and See

Hubert Parry

I was Glad

 

Pinner Parish Church Choir – around which Pinner Music Festival has grown – will delight us in a splendid gathering of anthems. The ‘tops’ of the choir have always been youngsters, unusual now in a parish church. As a result, the Choir’s regular contributions to worship in Pinner and beyond (the photo by Fiona Rich is from a visit to Llandaff Cathedral in 2019), as well as in concerts, has fostered the musical talents and skills of numerous young people over very many years, initially guided by Michael Turvey, and more recently by Martin Singleton.

Their programme includes two anthems by Vaughan Williams, whose 150th Anniversary falls this year, O Taste and See; Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, Handel’s Zadok the Priest, and more. They will also perform the lovely Hymn to St John the Baptist by Russell Pascoe, which was commissioned for them to perform, marking the 700th Anniversary of the Dedication of St John’s, Pinner, and premiered by our vocal consort last year.

After the impressive instrumental and vocal solos given at PMF2021 by younger members of the Choir, we shall – by popular request – hear more such items displaying their musicianship this year.