Hertfordshire Chorus sings from their Gramophone 'Editor's Choice' Album

Hertfordshire Chorus are at St Albans Cathedral on Saturday 16 January 2027, with conductor David Temple leading them through a programme drawn from their latest album. The record, released in July 2026 to critical acclaim, earned a Gramophone Editor's Choice award and brought two of Hubert Parry's lesser-known choral works back into the light. On the night, they're joined by soprano Sophie Bevan, baritone Benjamin Bevan, and the London Mozart Players.

Those two Parry pieces are De Profundis and Symphonic Variations. De Profundis was singled out by Vaughan Williams as Parry's finest work, and it's the one that picked up the Editor's Choice award from Gramophone; Music Web International described both Parry works as being of genuine stature. They're paired with Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, written in 1936 against a backdrop of rising fascism. It sets biblical texts alongside words by Walt Whitman and John Bright in a plea for peace, so the whole evening sits around a similar theme.

There's a twenty-minute interval, and the concert runs from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, with doors opening at 7:00 PM. Tickets are £36, £28, £20, and £10, and the venue is St Albans Cathedral on Holywell Hill, AL1 1BY.