Exeter Philharmonic Choir is preparing to begin its 2025/26 season with a very special musical first at Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 8 November - performing an ambitious new choral work called The Weather Book, written for the choir by one of the UK’s leading contemporary composers and highlighting Exeter’s unique status as the home of the UK’s Met Office.
The new work for soprano soloist, choir and chamber orchestra, composed by Cecilia McDowall, is a joint commission with a top chamber choir from Sweden. Gustaf Vasa Kammarkör performed the first movement called ‘Celsius Rising’...
Exeter Philharmonic Choir welcomes the Bristol Ensemble and international soloists to perform the world première of The Weather Book, composed by Cecilia McDowall, also Brahms’ Tragic Overture, Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody and Poulenc’s Gloria.
Agnes Auer (soprano) Seohyun Go (soprano) Cecily Shaw (Mezzo soprano) Howard Ionascu (conductor)
Cecilia McDowall will lead a pre-concert talk about her composition at 6.30 pm, at the Devon and Exeter Institution, 7 Cathedral Close, Exeter. Admission is free, but tickets are very limited and...
