There will be two performances of note at the final evensong of this year’s tour.
In September, Wimborne Minster will mark the 1300th anniversary of the death of St Cuthburga, patron saint of the Minster Church, and Laudemus! will anticipate this commemoration during the final Evensong of the 2025 tour. The anthem on Saturday 16th August will be Jeremy Jackman’s In laudationem Cuthburgae (‘In praise of Cuthburga’), commissioned by Laudemus! in 2005 for the 1300th anniversary of the founding of the Minster.
Earlier in the service, the choir will give the première of a new set of evening canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis), also commissioned by Laudemus! from composer Philip Lawson (www.philiplawson.net). We hope very much that Philip can be present to hear the first performances of these pieces.