Brent Singers sing La Grande Messe at 7.30pm in Buckfast Abbey. A programme inspired by the Abbey’s two organs, to include a rare, in-concert re-enactment of the great ceremonial music from Louis Vierne’s 19thC Parisian high mass ‘Messe Solennelle’, plus César Franck’s Panis Angelicus and a sing-along version of Charles-Marie Widor’s famous Toccata!

Brent Singers are led by director, Matthew Searles in this exciting and unusual musical event.

The Abbey is one of the few churches in the country equipped with two pipe organs and David Davies and Ben Horden are playing both organs simultaneously, adding great drama to the accompaniment of the choir.

This a special opportunity to hear these works in a similar environment to that in which they were written: with two organists playing together, in one building with a generous acoustic and a large massed choir. Although rare here, it would have been common in Paris at the end of the 19th century, when this music was originally composed.

Tickets £15, available from Buckfast Abbey www.buckfast.org.uk/product/tickets/brent-singers-la-grande-messe.

See: www.brentsingers.org.uk/event-info/la-grande-messe-1. (For more information about Brent singers see below)