THREE concerts in the coming days will commemorate the fallen in this centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War.

Tomorrow's concert by the Cambridge Chamber Consort (C3), directed by Tim Brown, in Ripon Cathedral, is followed on Tuesday, Remembrance Day, by a journey through words and music laying bare the brutality of war devised by the Teesside choral group Cantabile.

There is also a war themed concert by the North Yorkshire Chorus in Thirsk tomorrow evening.

The Ripon concert, Lest We Forget, offers works by Lotti, Purcell, Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mealor and Whitacre along with the haunting Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber, a choral version of his Adagio for Strings which has featured such films as The Elephant Man and Platoon.

The director is Tim Brown, who succeeded John Rutter at the helm of this the world famous chapel choir and is esteemed as one of the best choral directors in the world.

There will be readings by special guests and a performance by Dishforth Military Wives Choir, directed by Ruth Sladden, singing favourite songs and their number one hit and BAFTA award-winning single Wherever You Are.

Ripon soldier Maj Sean Scullion, who has flown over from Gibraltar where he manages the garrison defence transformation programme, will join the choir singing the title track from their album In My Dreams.

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

Tickets are £15, £12 concessions, £5 for students and free for under-16s. They are available at the cathedral giftshop at Ripon Cathedral (01765 601347) or from tickets@chorality.com. Money raised will be donated to the military charities SSAFA and Royal British Legion.

Fallen service personnel will also be honoured with a bugle call at tomorrow's concert by the North Yorkshire Chorus at St Mary's Church, Thirsk, when there will be two works on the theme of war and remembrance.

The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins includes a rendering of the Last Post, which makes the concert part of a national mass participation project commemorating the lives of those who fell in the 191418 War.

Ann Hutchings, the North Yorkshire Chorus’s secretary, said: “The war memorial in St Mary’s Church will be the focus of our attention as the Last Post is played, and we will use those moments to think about the people named on it, as well as those in our own families and communities who lost their lives.”

A photograph of Mrs Hutchings’ uncle, John Viles, features on the posters and the programme as a symbol of all those being remembered.

Cpl Viles joined up early in the war and fought as a member of the Tank Corps, only to die on October 18 1918 of pneumonia, less than a month before the Armistice.

The concert takes place at 7.30pm and features Chilcott’s Requiem and The Armed Man. Soloists are Rachel Little (soprano), and Christopher Steele (tenor), and accompaniment is by the North Yorkshire Pro Musica Orchestra. Tickets are available via northyorkshirechorus.org.uk or at the door, £15, under-16s free.

Cantabile's concert Words and Music at St Mary’s Church, Norton Green, Stockton (7pm), is designed in to be both heartwarming and heartbreaking. The group has come a long was since it was founded in 2012 by musical director Daniel Ackerley, with supporters such as Martin Dack, the North-East musical director and accompanist.

He has written a hauntingly beautiful setting for the poem O Ye Who Sleep. It will be sung by Cantabile after the reading of the poem In Flanders Fields which established the poppy as the symbol of remembrance.

The two-part programme with guest performers includes popular songs, well known and less well known poetry, plus dance, dramatisation, instrumental and vocal solos, and readings from the diaries of British and German soldiers.

The material will capture the changing mood at home and at the front as the euphoria that greeted the declaration of war crumbled amid the horror of the trenches.

The evening ends with a short Remembrance Day service and sounding of the Last Post. Proceeds will be donated to Help for Heroes, Phoenix House, Recovery Centre, Catterick Garrison.

Tickets cost £8, including light refreshments; contact Jacqui Taylor on 01642 890383 or 07801 256662.