THE cream of Cambridge choral singing returns to Ripon Cathedral on Saturday for a Remembrance concert to commemorate the fallen and raise funds for the military charities SSAFA and the Royal British Legion.

Entitled Lest We Forget, the 7.30pm performance by The Cambridge Chamber Consort (C3) will be directed by Tim Brown, who succeeded John Rutter as the director of Clare College, Cambridge’s world famous chapel choir.

The choral scholars of C3, who have have been singing for more than 20 years all over the world, will present Remembrance works by Lotti, Purcell, Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mealor and Whitacre, as well as the haunting Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber, a choral version of his Adagio for Strings.

The music will be interspersed with readings by special guests including the High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, Tom Ramsden; the Mayor of Ripon, Councillor Mick Stanley; Sir Andrew and Lady Lawson-Tancred; Lady Masham; the chief executive of the New Lights art competition, Annette Petchey; Pauline Garnett of Good Counsel; Lieutenant Colonel Mark Rooms, representing the 9 Regiment Army Air Corps at Dishforth Airfield, and Canon Paul Greenwell.

The evening will begin with a bugle call delivered by a Queen’s Scout, Michael Garnett, played on a treasured bugle that was presented to a Captain Clark on the formation of a new battalion on November 18 1914.

C3 will be joined by the Dishforth Military Wives Choir, directed by Ruth Sladden, who will perform a selection of their favourite songs, including the number one single Wherever You Are. Ripon soldier Major Sean Scullion is flying over from Gibraltar, where he is managing the Garrsion’s Defence Transformation programme, to sing with the ladies the title track from the Military Wives Choir’s album, In My Dreams.

Tickets are available from the Ripon Cathedral gift shop, on 01765 601347, or can be reserved by emailing tickets@chorality.com