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24th January 2026

Britten War Requiem

7:30pm

SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 2026, 7.30 P.M.
ELY CATHEDRAL
Tickets £5–40 : www.elycathedral.org
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
WAR REQUIEM, OP. 66
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Ed Lyon, tenor
Gareth Brynmor John, bass
Cambridge Chapel Choirs of Gonville & Caius, Selwyn, Jesus and Clare Colleges
Choristers of Jesus College
St Catharine’s College Girls’ Choir
Cambridge University Symphony Chorus
Britten Sinfonia
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

25th January 2026

Epiphany Carol Service

6:00pm

VOLUNTARY Duruflé Prelude sur l’introit de l’Epiphanie, Op. 6
INTROIT Traditional (c. 1450) Nowell, nowell! Out of your sleep
HYMN 47 (Dix, arr. Graham Ross (Clare 2003))
Reading Genesis 12: 1–9
CAROL Traditional (c. 1420) Ther is no rose of swych vertu
READING Isaiah LX: 1–7
ANTHEM Trad. Basque, arr. Jim Clements Gabriel’s Message 
READING Psalm 72: 10–15
ANTHEM Traditional When righteous Joseph wedded was 
READING Matthew II: 1–6
ANTHEM Traditional, arr. John Rutter (Clare 1963) The holly and the ivy 
READING Matthew II: 7–12
CAROL Cecilia McDowall The Magi 
READING Revelation VII: 9–17
CAROL Traditional (c. 1300), arr. Carol Barnett Angelus ad Virginem
PREACHER The Rev’d Dr Arabella Milbank
CAROL Traditional (1328), arr. Pearsall In dulci jubilo
HYMN 52 (Was lebet, arr. Graham Ross)
VOLUNTARY J. S. Bach In dulci jubilo, BWV 729

Social Media

  • Our 700th anniversary musical celebrations begin! Join us this Sunday for our 🕯️ 6pm Epiphany Carol Service in @chapelofclarecollege or 🎥 online via the YouTube LiveStream #Clare700 #Epiphany #CarolService #clarecollege #choirofclarecollege @clarecollege
  • We’re thrilled to begin the year as @bbcmusicmag’s cover CD this month, alongside a four-page feature about the history of Clare Choir, an in-depth interview with our Director of Music @mrgrahamross, and details of our musical celebrations for the year ahead as we mark the 700th anniversary of @clarecollege throughout 2026. #BBCMusicMagazine #coverCD #feature #January #Clare
  • Twelfth Night ✨ Wishing all our friends and supporters around the world a peaceful new year, and a happy Epiphany. We’re looking forward to returning to Cambridge shortly for the start of a very special year-long celebration of the 700th anniversary of the 1326 founding of @clarecollege. Watch this space for details of services, concerts, new commissions and more! For now, enjoy our Epiphany recordings on @harmoniamundi_inter with @mrgrahamross: 🎶 Samuel Barber Twelfth Night: Twelfth Night ✨ Wishing all our friends and supporters around the world a peaceful new year, and a happy Epiphany. We’re looking forward to returning to Cambridge shortly for the start of a very special year-long celebration of the 700th anniversary of the 1326 founding of @clarecollege. Watch this space for details of services, concerts, new commissions and more! For now, enjoy our Epiphany recordings on @harmoniamundi with @mrgrahamross: 🎶 Samuel Barber Twelfth Night: https://open.spotify.com/track/6gwfWErGVVvDpUfB7eEUMC?si=IG6hGntzTmuV5eve1OKKtA 💿 Mater ora filium: Music for Epiphany: https://open.spotify.com/album/50EE5SWE6El5pG4i6TSePt?si=enXbP2EORHivqqc_inqs4g
  • Four calling birds… 🤣 Memories of our concert to a wonderful sellout audience at Sint-Catharinakerk in Heusden, Netherlands last weekend, including our now infamous encore of the 12 Days of Christmas! 📸 Peter Honcoop
  • Wishing all our friends and audiences around the world a peaceful and very happy Christmas! 🎄 📸 @hedgehoghugh
  • 🏆 💿 We’re thrilled that the Christmas Edition of our @harmoniamundi_inter album ‘John Rutter: A Clare College Celebration’ is No. 6 in @applemusic Classicals’ Global Top 100 Chart! 📻 Tune in tomorrow to the @classicfm broadcast of our @sinfoniasmithsq concert ‘John Rutter: A Christmas Celebration’ with The Dmitri Ensemble conducted by @mrgrahamross, Christmas Eve 5-7pm GMT on @globalplayer @johnrutter.composer 🎄
  • A Clare College Christmas Tour Blog Day 5: Concertgebouw! 🇳🇱 Our day started bright and early - but not as early as Evie-Jacob “caffeine and croissant-fuelled” Perfect-Costard (thank you Graham!) who were marvelling at the Het Concertgebouw organ before sunrise. Eoin, Henry, and Will “elite” Jenkins-Lawrenson-Bennet managed to top that by embarking on a pre-concert run. Those of you wondering who this year’s sleeping beauty is will be pleased to hear that Thomas, Jamie, and Finn “I pressed stop not snooze” Alban-Ozoemena-Kjaergaard had to be woken up by Jess “Radix” Folwell. We dropped our belongings in a chandelier-adorned dressing room and headed into our final rehearsal with the radio sound engineers and video crew. After a short break, we made our long-anticipated Concertgebouw debut. The concert was a rousing success, and it was a real joy and privilege to perform in this extraordinary venue to such a welcoming audience. We even managed to squeeze in our Twelve Days encore - despite initially being told there might not be time for it - much to the delight of Sophie “just cut the broadcast” Meredith. Jess “Christmas tree” Folwell’s partridge once again made such an impression that she was later recognised and greeted by fans in the pub via an unmistakable partridge gesture! The rest of the day was spent in a cafe with some of Clare Choir’s top fans, where secret santa was also exchanged. Some members also took in some culture, such as visiting sights like Albert Heijn, Hema, and even the Rijksmuseum. Once we arrived at the ferry port, Daniel “Sherlock Holmes” Livermore was able to point us in the direction of the seating area that we were already standing in. We boarded the ferry in good time, and played our first choir basketball game, with Graham “Michael Jordan” Ross particularly impressing. After a late night for most, we were delighted to be guided to Bun ‘n’ Run, Harwich’s finest restaurant, by the hangriest members of the choir where we had a perfect farewell meal. Thank you to all of our faithful readers, and of course to Graham and Daniel for a super and memorable tour! Evie (Senior Organ Scholar) and Huatai (Can Alto 1)
  • A Clare College Christmas Tour Blog Day 4: Heusden 🇳🇱 After a bleary-eyed breakfast, Eoin ‘hurry up you lot’ Jenkins managed to assemble the choir, though not the coach itself, for our departure to Heusden. The journey flew by thanks to Nick ‘Magnificat Maestro’ Ong’s music quiz, during which Graham ‘Director of Music but for how long?’ Ross scratched his (shiny) head for answers, only to be outperformed by several members of the choir. The stillness of Heusden’s bleak mid morning was disturbed by the 34 of us descending into its misty streets, charming harbour, and the beautiful Catharijnekerk, where we were greeted by tea, coffee, and spiced biscuits (yum!). Thanks to technology more advanced than that of Clare chapel, Evie-Jacob ‘Good Organ Scholar’ Perfect-Costard enjoyed their debut on the big screen during our rehearsal. Entrusted with candles for our opening procession, Sophie ‘What would you do if I set fire to you?’ Meredith provided some pre-concert food for thought, whilst other members frantically googled “get wax off clothes how”. The concert was a great success — less so Mimi ‘Will you marry me?’ Latchman’s search for a college spouse. Our conductor and Good Organ Scholar thank the lovely people of Heusden for their beautiful bouquet of flowers! For our readers requesting an update on the status of Daniel ‘still ill’ Livermore, we are pleased to announce that the choir administrator has risen from the ashes! He delivered ‘Plan Concertgebouw’ on the coach to Amsterdam, ensuring the choir will look and sound its best for our biggest audience of 2025, not to mention national radio! Patrick (Dec bass 2) and Will (Can bass 3)
  • Today, our final concert of 2025 with a sellout debut at @concertgebouw Amsterdam with @mrgrahamross! ❤️

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20 Jan

And so it begins! The start of a year-long celebration I've programmed marking 700 years since @ClareCollege’s foundation in 1326. Eight packed weeks ahead with @ClareChoir to begin: https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-01/Lent%20Termcard%202026.pdf, with all our Sunday services LiveStreamed on YouTube.

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