Faire is the Heaven: Masterpieces of English Music | Bristol Choral Society

Henry Balfour Gardiner: Evening Hymn

William Harris: Faire is the Heaven

Herbert Howells: Like as the Hart

Herbert Sumsion: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships

Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Taste and See

Cecilia McDowall: Standing as I Do Before God

Edgar Leslie Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven

Gustav Holst: Two PsalmsBristol Choral Society
Imogen Russell – Soprano
Richard Moore – Organ
Hilary Campbell – Conductor

Join us for an evening of essential English choral music, with a programme ranging from the atmospheric Evening Hymn by Balfour Gardiner to the majestic double-choir harmonies of William Harris’s Faire is the Heaven. It is a unique opportunity to hear the power and beauty of the English sacred tradition in one of Bristol’s finest acoustic spaces.

You’ll also hear Gustav Holst’s Two Psalms and Vaughan Williams’s O Taste and See – both pieces are highlights from the choir’s 2025 CD, Praise Him with Trumpets