Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-97)
- Praeludium in E minor

J S Bach (1685-1750)
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr BWV 663

Judith Bingham (b 1952)
- St Bride assisted by angels

Flor Peeters (1903-86)
- Toccata, fugue & hymn Ave maris stella

Miriam Reveley is the Senior Organ Scholar at Jesus College Cambridge, where she is studying Music. Miriam began her musical career as a chorister at Ely Cathedral in 2016, and she began learning the organ in 2017 with Sarah MacDonald. She was appointed Sixth Form Organ Scholar at Ely in 2019 and Assisting Organist in 2022. Miriam passed her FRCO diploma in July 2022, winning the Limpus prize for her playing exam, while studying with Daniel Moult. Before University, Miriam spent her gap year as Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where she played for the Committal Service of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. In 2024, she won the Kent County Organ Competition, the RCO Competition’s Susi Jean Prize, and she was highly commended in the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition. In her spare time, she is also a composer: her ‘St George’s Fanfare’ and ‘Prelude on Stille Nacht’ have been published by Encore, and her ‘Trio in C minor’ has been published by the AGO. She is currently taught by Ann Elise Smoot and Stephen Farr.

The Temple Church organ
The organ in the Temple church was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar, Aberdeenshire, and installed in 1954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage), the gift of Lord Glentanar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installed in 1966 and is modelled on drawings of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688, showing the crests of Inner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 2013 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals.

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

Organ prelude: Fantasia in G (Parry)
Introit: Rejoice in the Lord (Anon) 
Responses: Smith 
Psalm 99 (Ley) 
Canticles: Second service (Gibbons)
Anthem: Zadok the Priest (Handel)
Organ voluntary: Fugue in G (Parry)

Said service of Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer

Gabrieli return to the programme that put them on the musical map when they recorded and released it in 1990: A Venetian Coronation 1595 is a musical recreation evoking the grand pageantry of the Coronation Mass for Venetian Doge Marino Grimani. His love of ceremony and state festivals fuelled an extraordinary musical bounty during his reign and formed the background to the musical riches of the period, especially to the works of Giovanni Gabrieli.

With cornetts, sackbuts and an all-male consort, Paul McCreesh exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music. The theatrical and ceremonious performance is sure to captivate our audience.

The running time of this concert is approximately 85 minutes, no interval. The performance should end at approximately 9pm.

Raphael Wallfisch, cello
J S Bach: Cello Suites, numbers 1, 2 and 3

Experience an unforgettable evening of music as renowned British cellist Raphael Wallfisch brings to life the timeless genius of Johann Sebastian Bach. Performing the first three of Bach’s iconic Cello Suites entirely from memory, Wallfisch offers a rare and intimate interpretation of these masterpieces ahead of a landmark recording project.

This concert forms part of an ambitious series to record all six suites in architecturally extraordinary venues, many linked to Sir Christopher Wren, a contemporary of Bach. Each location has been carefully chosen for its unique acoustics and natural light, elements that profoundly shape both performance and listening experience. Among these, Temple Church stands out not only for its beauty but for its musical legacy, having hosted Paul Tortelier’s celebrated recording over four decades ago.

Wallfisch’s project will mark the first time he has recorded the complete Bach Cello Suites, making this performance an extraordinary preview of something truly historic. In the luminous and resonant surroundings of Temple Church, music and architecture meet, creating a powerful artistic dialogue where sound, space, and structure inspire one another.

This special event is more than a concert. It is a celebration of artistic excellence and heritage, while also supporting Temple Church’s £6.7m redevelopment project - including the creation of a new Song School, disabled access and enhanced public facilities.

Join us for an evening where music, history, and purpose come together in perfect harmony.

This event is promoted by Temple Church Trust.

We’re delighted to welcome to Temple Church ground-breaking saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, Courtney Pine CBE for an intimate show with MOBO award-winning pianist, Zoe Rahman.

The widely celebrated, multi award-winning musician has played some of the largest stages in the world with a career spanning four decades and now shares his 16th studio album, SONG (The Ballad Book), created alongside Rahman, with us.
At the cutting edge of the UK jazz scene and constantly pushing boundaries, Pine has worked with Tate Modern and UNESCO, is a professor of Music at Westminster University, and is a widely respected TV and radio broadcaster – together with his CBE and OBE for services to music!

The Bar Choral Society
Greg Morris music director
Francois Cloete organist
The Bar Choral Society is based in the Temple with singers drawn from across the legal system. For their summer concert, the cherished amateur choir offers the following programme:

Britten: Te Deum in C

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb

Britten: Hymn to the Virgin

Finzi: Lo! The full final sacrifice

Ireland: Greater Love

The Temple Singers
Thomas Allery, conductor

Thomas Tallis’s monumental motet Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te, Deus Israel (I have never placed my hope in any other but in You, O God of Israel) stands as one of the most extraordinary achievements in choral music. Rarely performed, it is a breathtaking feat of contrapuntal imagination, conceived for an astonishing forty independent vocal lines arranged into eight choirs of five voices each.

Composed around 1572–73, Spem in alium is believed to have been first performed at Nonsuch Palace, the Earl of Arundel’s summer residence, whose octagonal hall and surrounding balconies likely inspired Tallis’s bold spatial design. The music unfolds as sound travels through space - surging from choir to choir, surrounding the listener in waves of resonance. Towering passages for all forty voices alternate with intimate exchanges among smaller groups, while musical ideas leap across the ensemble.

The result is a profoundly immersive, almost architectural experience: a living sculpture of sound that envelops both ear and imagination.

This concert is supported by a consortium of donors, and is given to mark the retirement of The Revd Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of Temple Church.

Full Programme

Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521): Qui Habitat (24 voices) 6'00"
Gabriel Jackson (1962-): Cecila Virgo (24 voices) 8'00"
John Tavener (1944-2013): Hymn to the Mother of God (12 voices) 2'30"
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924): Latin Magnificat in B flat, Op 164 (8 voices) 11'00"
David Bednall (1979-): Lux Orta est Iusto (40 voices) 8'00"
Eric Whitacre (1970-): Lux Aurumque (8 voices) 4'00"
Andrea Gabrieli (1533-1585): Maria stabat ad monumentum (6 voices) 5'00"
John Taverner (1490-1545): Dum transisset Sabbatum (6 voices) 8'00"
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585): Spem in Alium (40 voices) 9'00"

Temple Church Choir
The Temple Players
Thomas Allery, conductor

The Temple Church Choir, one of London’s foremost liturgical ensembles, ignites a display of royal splendour in the magnificent historic surroundings of Temple Church. At the heart of the programme are Handel’s glorious Coronation Anthems, including the electrifying Zadok the Priest and the majestic Let thy Hand be strengthened, works written to celebrate the power, pageantry, and ceremony of the British monarchy.

Alongside these, the concert features a rich selection of Baroque music composed for royal occasions, bringing to life the brilliance and grandeur of the age. Set within the soaring acoustics and centuries-old walls of Temple Church, this performance promises an evening of ceremonial brilliance, dramatic contrasts, and resplendent choral sound - where history, architecture, and music converge in spectacular fashion.

Programme

G F Handel (1685-1759): Overture to Solomon
Francesco Durante (1684-1755): Magnificat
G F Handel: Let thy Hand be strengthened
William Boyce (1711-1779): Symphony no. 1
William Boyce: The King shall rejoice
G F Handel: Zadok the Priest