Name: A Feast of English Choral Music
Start: 2025-06-14T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-14T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Exeter Cathedral

The final concert of Exeter Philharmonic Choir’s 2024/25 season takes place in Exeter Cathedral at 7.30 pm on Saturday 14 June.
It will be a ‘Feast of English Choral Music’, a veritable banquet of some of the greatest English choral – and also organ – music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The concert includes works by the musical giants of their time: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hubert Parry, Arthur Sullivan and Herbert Howells.
Howard Ionascu, Director of Music, and Exeter Philharmonic Choir are looking forward to welcoming celebrated baritone Thomas Humphreys. After a welcoming Evening Hymn from the choir, Thomas will start the evening by singing Vaughan Williams’ evocative work, Five Mystical Songs, a setting of poems by 17th-century metaphysical poet, George Herbert.
A special feature of this concert will be the opportunity to hear Exeter Cathedral’s famous organ played as a solo instrument. Stephen Tanner, a highly renowned keyboard player as well as the choir’s Associate Director of Music, will perform pieces by Edward Bairstow and Herbert Howells that showcase both the organist and the organ.
Come and hear the full power of the Exeter Philharmonic Choir and the mighty Cathedral Organ in the wonderful acoustic of Exeter Cathedral. Come and enjoy the Feast!