Relayed from the Park Hall.
May Blyth (Soprano); Olive Kavann (Contralto); Hughes Macklin (Tenor); Robert Maitland (Baritone); Choir of the Cardiff Musical Society; The Station Symphony Orchestra

Mendelssohn's Lauda Sion
Chorus, 'Praise Jehovah, Bow Before Him'
Soprano Solo and Chorus, 'Sing of Judgment, Sing of Mercies'
Quartet and Chorus, 'Ye, Who from His Ways have Turned'
Chorus, 'They that in Much Tribulation'
Soprano Solo, 'Lord, at all Times I Will Bless Thee'
Chorus, 'Save the People Who Adore Thee'
Quartet and Chorus, 'When they Thirsted, Rocks were Riven'
Quartet and Chorus, 'Thou Didst Free Them from Oppression'

The Sequence Lauda Sion is sung to a plainsong melody at Mass on the Feast of Corpus Christi. The words were written about 1264 by St. Thomas Aquinas. Mendelssohn composed his setting of the words (in a modern adaptation) for the Feast at Liege in 1846, the year before he died. His music is, of course, independent of the old plainsong, though a fragment of this is used in the Chorus which is given in the English version as 'They that in much tribulation wait and long for His salvation have with Him their dwelling-place'.