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Choral Evensong
Sung by the Temple Singers
Organ: Psalm Prelude Lento, poco appenato (Howells)
Introit: Oculi omnium (Wood)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 65
Canticles: Wood in F
Anthem: Where thou reignest (Schubert)
Organ: Prelude & fugue in A minor (Brahms)
This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.
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Choral Mattins
Sung by the Temple Church Choir
Organ: Fugue in G minor BWV578 (Bach)
Introit: Lord, I trust thee (Handel)
Responses: Rose
Psalm 132 vv 1-10
Te Deum: Vaughan Williams
Jubilate: chant by Stanford
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)
Organ: Chorale prelude on the ‘Old 104th’ (Parry)
This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel
Lux Aeterna
Temple Youth Choir
Thomas Allery (conductor)
Charles Andrews (organ)
Join the Temple Youth Choir for their annual Remembrance concert, an event drawing together talented young voices from across London. The programme includes Ian Venables' Lux Aeterna, the final movement of his Requiem, and Henry Walford Davies' Psalm 121, inscribed for those lost in war by the former Temple organist. An early evening event filled with poignant choral music that is not to be missed.
Pärt: Beatitudes
Harris: Bring us, O Lord
Holst: Nunc dimittis
Walford Davies: Psalm 121 (A short requiem)
Parry: Crossing the bar
Parry: My soul there is a country
Venables: Lux aeterna
Derri Lewis: Locus Iste
Duration: Approx. 1 hour (no interval)
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Holst Singers
Katherine Gregory (mezzo-soprano)
Florian Störtz (baritone)
Harrison Cole (organ)
Sarah Henderson (cello)
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Stephen Layton returns to the Temple with the Holst Singers, one of the UK’s most acclaimed chamber choirs. Their programme pairs Łukaszewski’s strikingly atmospheric O Antiphons with Duruflé’s radiant Requiem, a masterpiece of 20th-century choral writing infused with plainsong and quiet intensity. Marking both Remembrance and the approach of Advent, this promises to be a powerful and reflective evening of music in the Temple Church.
Łukaszewski: O Antiphons
Duruflé: Requiem
Duration: One hour 45 minutes (including interval)
Sponsored by Katie Bradford
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Choral Evensong
Sung by the Temple Singers
Organ: Fantasia in G (Byrd)
Introit: Tibi laus (Anerio)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 48 (Bairstow)
Canticles: Howells in B minor
Anthem: A hymn for St Cecilia (Howells)
Organ: Fanfare & Gothic march (Guy Weitz)
This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.
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Collegium Musicum London: Bird/Song
Bird/Song
Choral music of the feathered variety including works by Vaughan Williams, Stanford & Gibbons
From the warble of a nightingale to the chatter of a chaffinch, birds of every feather have exercised the imaginations of composers and poets throughout the centuries.
This November, CML returns to Temple Church for a concert inspired by both the majesty of birds in flight and their mellifluous vocal dexterity.
The concert will feature violinist Ian Belton performing a special arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s soaring and elegiac tone poem The Lark Ascending, with the choir providing vocal accompaniment.
Choral favourites will also feature, including Charles Villiers Stanford’s popular and gravity-defying partsong The Blue Bird.
The concert promises a kaleidoscopic array of colourful plumages and tuneful avian tweets, including an owl, a cuckoo and a turtle dove, in an eclectic and uplifting programme, in one of the capital’s most atmospheric and historic venues.
Ian Belton is a founder member of the Brodsky Quartet, and has remained an active member of the group for over 40 years.
He has performed over 3,000 concerts worldwide and has played on more than 60 recordings.
Ian has also performed and recorded regularly with the Adderbury Ensemble for more than two decades.
Saturday November 22, 7.30 pm
Temple Church
Temple
London EC4Y 7BB
Tickets £20 / £18 concessions on the door
£18 / £16 concessions in advance on 07812 599340
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Choral Communion
Sung by the Temple Church Choir
Organ prelude: Prelude in A minor BWV543 (Bach)
Introit: O King, enthroned on high (Walford Davies)
Setting: Spatzenmesse (Mozart)
Psalm 29 (Battishill)
Anthem: King of glory, King of peace (Walford Davies)
Organ voluntary: Fugue in A minor BWV543 (Bach)
This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.
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Choral Evensong
Sung by the Temple Singers
Organ prelude: I love thee, my Lord (George Shearing)
Introit: With prayer and supplication (Amy Beach)
Responses: Leighton
Psalm 147 vv 1-12 (Lawes)
Canticles: Second service (Leighton)
Organ voluntary: The Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa)
This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.
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Choral Communion for Advent Sunday
Sung by the Temple Singers
Organ: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV599 (Bach)
Introit: Never weather-beaten sail (Richard Shepherd)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 25 vv 1-9 (Turle)
First canticle: Benedicite (Sumsion in B flat)
Second canticle: Canticle of Zachariah (James MacMillan)
Anthem: Rorate coeli (Byrd)
Organ: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV659 (Bach)
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Winter Festival: Outcry Ensemble
Outcry Ensemble
James Henshaw (conductor)
Sumptuous works for string orchestra performed by exceptional young professional musicians in the legendary acoustic of the Temple Church: an irresistible combination for the opening night of the Winter Festival. From the rapturous beauty of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (heard in the very place where the famous 1962 Barbirolli recording was made) to the work which brought Benjamin Britten to international attention in 1937, tonight's programme features some of the greatest 20th century works for string orchestra. It includes Arvo Pärt's tremendously powerful elegy on the death of Britten in 1976, for strings and tubular bell. Not to be missed.
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia
Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Duration: 90 minutes (including interval)
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Winter Festival: Katharina Ruckgaber & Sholto Kynoch
Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)
A rising star in concert halls and opera houses across Europe, lyric soprano Katharina Ruckgaber partners with one of the leading figures from the world of song, in a bittersweet selection of music for the season. The passing of the year, stars, snow, magi, miracles, sorrow and joy are all wrapped together in this stunning programme from the exceptional duo. Join Kynoch & Ruckgaber in the ancient surroundings of the Temple Church this December and let time stand still.
Humperdinck: Weihnachten
Berg: Winter
Schubert: Der Einsame, D 800
Heggie: The Road to Bethlehem
Cornelius: Die Könige op. 8/3
Schubert: Die Sterne
Strauss: Die heiligen Drei Könige op. 6/6
Britten: La Noël passé
Ravel: Noël des jouets
Debussy: Noël des petits enfants
Sibelius: Giv mig ej glans
Massenet: Noël paien
Adam: Minuit chrétien
Wolf: Schlafendes Jesuskind
Saint-Saëns: La Madonna col Bambino
Tchaikovsky: December: Noël
Stolz: Christrose
Strauss: Weihnachtsgefühl, WoO 94
Duration: One hour (no interval)
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Winter Festival: Fantasia
Matilda Lloyd (trumpet)
Richard Gowers (organ)
The renowned duo make their Temple Church debut in a kaleidoscopic programme of baroque fantasias and contemporary music. Newly-commissioned works by Deborah Pritchard, Owain Park and Roxanna Panufnik explore the expressive possibilities of trumpet and organ, whilst Bach, Krebs and Martini dazzle in improvisatory passagework; none more so than in Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which featured in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia.
Bach (arr. Foster): Toccata & Fugue in D minor
Panufnik: Echo* UK premiere
Krebs (trans. Lloyd): Fantasia in F minor
Barnard: At the Borders of Sleep*
Bach: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch
Pritchard: Light Enkindled* world premiere
Martini: Sonata al Post Communio
Park: Warm, hazy rain* UK premiere
*Commissioned by Matilda Lloyd and Richard Gowers for Fantasia (September 2025, Chandos Records)
Duration: One hour (no interval)
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Advent Carol Service
Sung by the Temple Church Choir
Introit: This is the truth sent from above (English traditional carol arr Vaughan Williams)
Anthem: O Emmanuel (Walford Davies)
Antiphon: O sapientia
Hymn: O come, o come Emmanuel
Anthem: Vigilate (Byrd)
Anthem: This is the record of John (Gibbons)
Processional hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry
Ave Maria (Bruckner)
Hymn: Tell out, my soul
Anthem: People look east (Besançon traditional arr)
Hymn: Come, thou long expected Jesus
Anthem: And the glory of the Lord (Handel)
Hymn: Hills of the north
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Anthem: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV140i (Bach)
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Winter Festival: Christmas Oratorio
Bar Choral Society
Temple Players
Thomas Allery (conductor)
The Bar Choral Society is based in the Temple with singers drawn from across the legal system. Their performance of Cantatas I–III and VI from J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is sure to be a highlight of the festive season in the Temple. Bach's masterpiece captures the wonder of the nativity story in a sequence of sparkling choruses and beautiful arias. The choir is joined by four outstanding soloists including Grace Davidson (soprano) and Richard Latham (baritone), and the colourful orchestral score - complete with jubilant punctuations from trumpets and timpani - is brought to life by the fine baroque instrumentalists of Temple Players.
Duration: 130 minutes (including interval)
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Winter Festival: What Sweeter Music
Temple Singers
Thomas Allery (conductor)
Charlie Andrews (organ)
Our Winter Festival concludes with a wonderful selection of choral music for Advent from one of London's finest professional church choirs. This rush-hour performance offers a moment of reflection in the ancient and numinous surroundings of the Temple Church.
Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Chilcott: Advent Antiphons
Howells: Magnificat (Gloucester Service)
Byrd: Laetentur coeli
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo
Peacock: Veni Emmanuel
Naylor: Vox dicentis: Clama
Duration: One hour (no interval)
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Christmas Carol Service
Sung by the Temple Church Choir
This service will be sung again on
Thursday 11 and Sunday 14 December.
Booking required via Eventbrite for Sunday 14 service only.
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