The Magnificat is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos. It is traditionally incorporated into the liturgical services of the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheran Churches and the Anglican Communion. Its name comes from the incipit of the Latin version of the text.
The Nunc dimittis, also known as the Song of Simeon or the Canticle of Simeon, is a canticle taken from the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses 29 through 32. Its Latin name comes from its incipit, the opening words, of the Vulgate translation of the passage, meaning "Now you let depart". Since the 4th century it has been used in Christian services of evening worship such as Compline, Vespers, and Evensong.
Patrick Hawes is a British composer, conductor, organist and pianist.
Herbert Whitton Sumsion was an English musician who was organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1928 to 1967. Through his leadership role with the Three Choirs Festival, Sumsion maintained close associations with major figures in England's 20th-century musical renaissance, including Edward Elgar, Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Although Sumsion is known primarily as a cathedral musician, his professional career spanned more than 60 years and encompassed composing, conducting, performing, accompanying, and teaching. His compositions include works for choir and organ, as well as lesser-known chamber and orchestral works.
Robert Saxton is a British composer.
Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish descent. She is the daughter of the Polish composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik and his second wife Camilla, née Jessel.
The All-Night Vigil is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 23 March 1915 in Moscow.
James Whitbourn is a British composer and conductor.
Percy William Whitlock, was an English organist and post-romantic composer.
Hugh Blair was an English musician, composer and organist.
Stanley 'Spike' Glasser, was a South African-born British composer and academic, the elder son of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. He first came to the UK in 1950 to study with Benjamin Frankel and Mátyás Seiber, then read music at Cambridge. Returning to South Africa he became a music lecturer at Cape Town University for four years.
Paweł Łukaszewski is a Polish composer of choral music. He has won seven prestigious Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of Poland "by far".
The Rodolfus Choir was founded by Ralph Allwood in 1984. It is a choir of singers aged 16-23. Many members have previously taken part in Rodolfus Choral Courses, though membership of the choir is open to all via auditions every September. The choir has toured extensively in the UK and abroad, and on top of performances at such venues as St John's, Smith Square and the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester they have produced a considerable discography of music ranging from Monteverdi to Grier.
The musical foundation of Chichester Cathedral consists of the organist and master of the choristers, the assistant organist and the organ scholar; together with six singing men, eighteen choristers, six probationers – and including a head chorister and a senior chorister who both wear a notable medallion on a red ribbon according to their office held. The choristers and probationers are all boarders at the Prebendal School, the cathedral's choir school. The lay vicars are professional singers who all have everyday jobs.
Alan J. Wilson, is a British composer of church music.
The Fairhaven Singers is a chamber choir based in Cambridge, UK, directed by Ralph Woodward. The choir is a mixed ensemble of about 48 amateur singers singing choral repertoire from the 15th century to the present. Among the major works it has performed are Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, Mozart's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem, and James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross. It has commissioned and premiered new works from composers that have included Jonathan Dove, Will Todd, Bob Chilcott, Carl Rütti and Cecilia MacDowall.
Nicholas O'Neill is an English composer, arranger, organist and choral director.
Deborah Pritchard is a British composer. She is known for her concert works, a compositional approach informed by her synaesthesia, and her work in response to visual artists, most notably Marc Chagall and Maggi Hambling. She also paints music in the form of visualisations and music maps. The London Symphony Orchestra premiered her large orchestral piece The Angel Standing in the Sun at LSO St Lukes in 2015, her violin concerto Calandra was premiered by Jennifer Pike and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London in 2022 and Radiance for solo cello, responding to The Peace Window by Marc Chagall at the United Nations, was premiere by Natalie Clein at the Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival in 2022. She won a British Composer Award for her solo violin piece Inside Colour in 2017,
Gerald Mills Hendrie,, is an English scholar, composer, organist, pianist and harpsichordist.
