St Peter's Church Ruthin Evensong Choir

03/02/2025

The monthly evensong in St Peter’s (Ruthin) has stopped while building work goes on through 2025. We hope to be able to hold evensong occasionally in other churches. We will notify on this page. ❤️

30/12/2024

*Update*
There will be no evensong in January.

10/12/2024

Christmas. The Evensong choir will be leading the congregation in a Candlelit Carol service in St Peter's Ruthin on 22nd Dec at 6pm.
The choir will also join the Congregation for the Midnight mass on 24th Dec at 11pm.
We hope you will join us at this magical time.

January Evensong will be held on Sunday 5th January at 6pm

Thank you to Robin Ashby for permission to use his photograph

18/11/2024

Our next evensong is on Advent Sunday, 1st December at 6pm.
It may be the last we can sing in St Peter's Church before the commencement of the church re-modelling. But we hope to use other venues for next year's services until the work is completed.

Subject to the church's availability we hope to present a carol service later in December. More details will follow.

Thank you to Robin Ashby for permission to use his photo

28/10/2024

There will be no first Sunday evensong in November, but we will join together again for the first Sunday in Advent.

This Saturday, 2nd November at 6pm, we will be singing at the Mass for All Souls which will take place in St Meugan's Church Llanrhydd, Ruthin.

The next day, Sunday 3rd Nov, Tad Huw leaves us for pastures new with his final service being at 1030 at St Peter's Church in Llanbedr. Our contribution to this service will be John Rutter's "The Lord bless you and keep you", a fitting farewell from a grateful church choir.

The start date for the re-modelling of St Peter's Ruthin is unknown and so we are not yet sure whether a traditional carol service will be taking place there this year.

24/09/2024

The next Evensong will be on 6th October at 6pm. We will be offering our thanks for the harvest. Please join us at for our traditional celebration. You will be very welcome.

Thank you for permission to use the photograph

19/08/2024

UPDATE!
September evensong will now be at 6pm on 1 September
As some are away on holiday, the choir will sing from the congregation as we did in August's evensong

Photo credit Amy Weatherley Photography - thank you Amy

29/07/2024

The next evensong will be at 6pm on Sunday 4th August. As it is the holiday season, many choir members are away. So it will not be possible to have an appropriate choral celebration of the Transfiguration. This month's evensong, we will be singing amongst the congregation in a parish evensong. In this simpler version of evensong there will be no anthem.

28/06/2024

Our next Choral Evensong at 6pm on Sunday, July 7th when we will be celebrating St Thomas the Apostle – “Doubting Thomas” as he is known colloquially. We will be singing music spanning many centuries and styles: from two austerely beautiful plainsong hymns to a delightful chorus from Handel’s Brokes Passion of 1716. We will end with the rousing hymn “O praise ye the Lord” by the Edwardian composer Hubert H. Parry – the composer of the hymn “Jerusalem” as always sung on the last night of the Proms.

14/05/2024

We will next be singing Evensong at 6pm on Sunday, 2nd. June. Everyone is, of course, most welcome. The anthem on this occasion will be Attwood's "Turn Thy face from my sins" which will be familiar to many. This may well be the last Evensong we sing in St. Peter's for some time as the church is about to undergo a substantial re-modelling. We will continue to sing a monthly evensong at one of the churches in our mission area and look forward to the challenges that will bring.

12/05/2024

We are a small choir but love singing beautiful music in this wonderful church. New members always welcome. See details in 'About

12/05/2024

Past anthems sung by St Peter’s Evensong choir over the last year:

Ave Verum (Elgar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWJRKoKrV_8&ab_channel=OxfordChoralRecordings

O saviour of the world (Goss) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEi80tnY0x8&ab_channel=ChoirofClareCollege%2CCambridge-Topic
The Strife is o'er (Ley)
Lord for Thy tender mercy's sake (Farrant) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2avqsnYJ4&ab_channel=OxfordChoralRecordings

Rejoice in the Lord (Anon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVITZ-zNAs&ab_channel=JohnRutter%26TheCambridgeSingers

O Sing Joyfully (Batten) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gHkKGiXeNE&ab_channel=morphthing1

Thou visitest the earth (Green) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCjaTjFVCTU&ab_channel=ChoirofNewCollegeOxford-Topic

This is the truth sent from above (Vaughan Williams) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpsZke3KvVc&ab_channel=ClassicFM

O Thou the central orb (Wood) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf202pdjMZk&ab_channel=morphthing1

Drop drop, slow tears (Gibbons) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQaLMoPGJzk&ab_channel=Voces8VEVO

Turn thy face from my sins (Attwood) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgOMVfPr_c&list=RDsqgOMVfPr_c&start_radio=1&ab_channel=mjusicamanti

Cantate Domino (Pitoni) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudkfwwrZq0&ab_channel=LincolnCollegeMusicSociety

Lead me, Lord (Wesley) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwxmEKdIQw&ab_channel=OxfordChoralRecordings

Come Holy Ghost(Attwood) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQyOiO_Y7NE&ab_channel=ChoirofNewCollegeOxford-Topic

Come, ye faithful (RS Thatcher) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2m11dHLYdE&ab_channel=JamesWalton

Cast thy burden upon the lord (Mendelssohn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ooV9Q3V2g&ab_channel=First-PlymouthChurchLincolnNebraska

Sung by the Plymouth Choir, First Plymouth Church, Lincoln, Nebraska on April 14, 2013.firstplymouth.orgCast thy burden upon the Lord,And He shall sustain th...