A lunchtime Bank Holiday treat is in store for visitors to St Albans Cathedral on Monday from 1pm as a free concert of music performed by a ten-piece brass ensemble will resound throughout the historic building.

Cambridge-based ensemble Prime Brass is making its fifth visit to St Albans Cathedral. The programme includes the exuberant Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock, extracts from the music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn, and Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2. It also features an arrangement of The Banks of Green Willow, a beautiful piece by George Butterworth who was killed fighting in the Battle of the Somme.

Tom Winpenny, assistant master of the music at the Abbey says: “We are delighted to welcome back Prime Brass to perform at the Cathedral. They are performing an engaging and varied programme of familiar and less well-known works. Their performances are always uplifting events, and it promises the perfect way to spend part of the Bank Holiday afternoon.”

Cambridge-based Prime Brass was formed in 1989 and has collaborated with groups such as the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Ely Cathedral Choir, and Cambridge University Musical Society. The group is known for its wide-ranging repertoire: it has recorded several CDs and is much in demand throughout