Concerts and Recitals

We run two regular series of recitals at the Cathedral:

• Lunchtime Concerts - Thursdays at 1.10, free with visitor entry ticket or pass
  Typically running in two or three brief series each year.
  
• Organ Recitals - Sundays at 5.15, free entry
  Typically running throughout the summer months
  

Details of upcoming programmes will appear on the main Events page.

Expressions of interest to perform in these series are always welcome; please contact music@elycathedral.org

Please note that the Cathedral diary is very full and so we do not usually host lunchtime concerts or organ recitals at other times.

Music and Meditation
Tuesdays in Lent
11, 18, 25 March; 1, 8, 15 April
in the Presbytery

The musicians of Ely Cathedral contribute music expressing the themes of Lent, Passiontide and Easter.

Each piece is preceded by a short meditation from one of the Cathedral clergy exploring the week’s musical treatment of these themes, both in the music itself and in the theological and spiritual threads which can be drawn from it. The whole meditation lasts about 20 minutes.

Tuesday 11 March
The Dean | Thomas Strudwick (Sixth Form Organ Scholar-Elect)
Settings of O Mensch bewein’ dein Sünde groß by Marcel Dupré and J.S Bach

Tuesday 18 March
Canon James Reveley | Sarah MacDonald (Director, Ely Cathedral Girl Choristers)
Interlude on Aus der Tiefe by Esther Bersweden & Psalm Prelude Set 1 No 3 by Herbert Howells

Tuesday 25 March
Canon James Garrard | Edmund Aldhouse (Director of Music)
Prelude on Salve Regina from Op 25 & Virgo Mater from Offrande à la Vierge by Marcel Dupré

Tuesday 1 April
The Dean | Andrew Parnell (Assistant Director, Ely Cathedral Octagon Singers)
Absoute from Dix Pièces by Eugène Gigout

Tuesday 8 April
Canon Nicholas Thistlethwaite | Stanley Godfrey (Graduate Organ Scholar)
De profundis by Jean Langlais & Stabat Mater by Jeanne Demessieux

Tuesday 15 April
Canon James Reveley | Jeremy Lloyd (Assistant Director of Music)
Ach Herr mich armen Sünder by Johann Ludwig Krebs & O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid by Ethel Smyth