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MacDonald: Evening Service in A flat

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A flat

MacDonald: Evening Service in A flat

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A flat

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Choral leaflet

£3.55

Publisher: RSCM Press
ISBN: C1170
Published: 06/05/2021

Listen to the first performance from Selwyn College, Cambridge

This set of canticles was designed to be used to teach sight-reading. Consequently there are plenty of simple tunes which reappear in various guises, particularly in the treble part. The soprano and organ parts in this SATB version are nearly identical to the original; the alto, tenor, and bass parts are derived from the organ accompaniment. It is intended as a joyful, tuneful, and singable setting, with the primary intention of enhancing the liturgy of Choral Evensong. I hope it is also uplifting for congregations to listen to, and straightforward for choirs of all levels, from parish to cathedral, to sing.

Sarah MacDonald

Sarah  MacDonald is a Canadian-born organist, conductor and composer, currently  living in the UK, where she is a Fellow and Director of Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and 

Director of the Girl Choristers at Ely Cathedral. She has been at Selwyn since 1999, and is the first woman to hold such a post in an Oxbridge chapel. MacDonald studied at Toronto's 

Glenn Gould School and at Cambridge University; her teachers were Leon Fleisher, Marek Jablonski, John Tuttle, and David Sanger. 

  

MacDonald has performed across the UK, North America, the Middle East, and mainland Europe, and is in demand internationally as a conductor, organist, and teacher. She has 

made over 35 commercial recordings and has over 60 published works for choir and organ. 

She holds the Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists, and writes a popular monthly column for the American Guild of Organists' magazine, The American Organist. 

Her first solo disc, a recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations performed on the Steinway-D piano in Ely Cathedral was released in May 2024. 

  

In 2018 MacDonald received the honorary ARSCM (Associate of the Royal School of Church Music) in recognition of her contribution to choral music.  Sarah took up the office of 

President of the Royal College of Organists in July 2024. She is an Honorary Patron of the Herbert Howells Society, a Patron of the Society of Women Organists, and President of the School Organists’ Association. She was appointed University Organist at Cambridge in 2022, and is the first woman to hold that prestigious ceremonial role, which dates back to 

1670.