Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir

Divine MelodiesCelebrating St Cecilia

8th November 2025 7:30pm

All Saints' Church
Priory Terrace, Royal Leamington Spa CV31 1AA

Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia

G F Handel Ode for St Cecilia

Gerald Finzi For St Cecilia (op. 30)

Josef Rheinberger Mass in E flat

Bach/Gounod Ave Maria

George Dyson Live Forever Glorious Lord

This concert explores the legacy of St Cecilia through music written in her honour by Britten, Handel, Finzi and Dyson.

It also includes a mass by Rheinberger which overtly rejects the aims of the 19th century Cecilian movement, which sought to return the liturgy of the Roman Catholic church to an older, simpler style.