As the season of remembrance approaches, Glasgow Chamber Choir presents an afternoon of thoughtful and expressive choral music, exploring themes of reflection, memory, and peace.

Under the direction of Michael Bawtree, the programme features three contrasting responses to loss and remembrance. Herbert Howells’ Take him, earth, for cherishing, written in memory of President John F. Kennedy, is one of the most deeply felt and radiant works of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s Canticum Calamitatis Marinorum (“Song of the Sea Disaster”) offers a strikingly modern soundscape of compassion and humanity, composed in response to the sinking of the MS Estonia. And in Walford Davies’ A Short Requiem, we hear a more intimate and traditional voice – music that finds serenity in the midst of remembrance.

Join us for an hour of beautiful and contemplative choral music – a chance to pause and listen, as voices and harmonies resonate in this season of reflection.

Sunday 9 November at 3.30pm
St Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow G43 2DS
Free entry – with retiring collection