Music at Belfast Cathedral

01/07/2022

30/06/2022

28/06/2022

You are invited to join us for Cathedral Worship on Sundays during July and August for 11.00am Choral Eucharist, and 3.30pm Evensong.

Throughout the summer, services will be sung by members of the Cathedral Choir, and on occasion by visiting choirs.

For further details for each Sunday, please click on the Services and Music list below or check the cathedral page for further updates:

https://www.belfastcathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Services-and-Music-List-2022-07-08.pdf

26/06/2022

The Cathedral Services and Music List for July and August 2022 is now available to view on the cathedral website www.belfastcathedral.org/music/music-list.

25/06/2022

Please join us at 11.00am on Sunday Morning, 26th June 2022 for Cathedral Choral Eucharist on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity. This is the final Sunday when the full Adult Choir and the Cathedral Children’s Choir will be singing together, before the summer holiday months of July and August.

The service is led by Mrs Gillian McGaughey. The preacher and celebrant is the Dean. Intercessions are led by Melanie Sloan. Holy Communion can be received in both kinds, using individual cups.

The musical setting for Choral Eucharist is “Collegium Regale” by Herbert Howells. The Gary Davison Lord’s Prayer and the Communion Anthem, “O holy Jesus”, the prayer of St Richard of Chichester, set to music by Richard Allain will be sung by the Children’s Choir. The Organ prelude is “Prelude on St Anne” by Healey Willan, and the organ Postlude is Widor’s famous Toccata.

The service will be followed by Tea or Coffee which served at the West End of the cathedral.

Cathedral Choral Evensong will be at 3.30pm, to which all are invited. The final Choral Evensong of June will feature Philip Wilby’s “The Knaresborough Service”, which is included on the Cathedral Choir’s recently released CD.

Organ Prelude – Elergy by George Thalben-Ball
Preces and Responses – Humprey Clucas
Psalm 119 vv 153-168. Chants: Wadeley and Knight
Philip Wilby – The Knaresborough Service
Anthem- Setting of Psalm 90 by Ralph Vaugh Williams
Organ Postlude – Empyrean by Francis Pott

Throughout July and August, 11am and 3.30pm Cathedral Choral Services will continue, with ensemble groups from the cathedral choir and also visiting choirs singing. Please check Facebook postings and the Cathedral Website for further details.

The wearing of face coverings is now a matter of personal choice. Out of respect for others you may wish to wear a face covering when moving inside the building. Face coverings may be removed when you are in your seats.

24/06/2022

Choose your preferred music service

23/06/2022

23/06/2022

Have yourself a special Lunchtime Treat with the Grace Church Choir, from Broadway, New York performing at Belfast Cathedral from 12.30-1.30pm TODAY.

Programme includes works by Durufle, Tallis, Mozart and Stainer.
Director - Patrick Allen

Free admission. Voluntary Donations in support of the work and ministry of Belfast Cathedral.