Past Performances

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Jul 2025	Byrd and the Blues
Mar 2025	Fauré Requiem and choral delights by Mendelssohn, Reger and Chaminade
Dec 2024	Christmas Carols and Constellations
Jul 2024	“Ahoy! Sing for the Mary Rose”
Apr 2024	Perpetual Light and Love Eternal
Dec 2023	An Elizabethan Feast
Jul 2023	Songs of the Sea & Faraway Places
Mar 2023	Brahms Requiem
Nov 2022	A Teutonic Affaire
Jun 2022	Outrunning the Setting Sun
Mar 2022	A Celebration of Jewish Music
Jul 2021	French Impressions
Dec 2019	Victoria with a Twist
Jun 2019	Byrdsong (guest conductor: James Dixon)
Mar 2019	A musical exploration of mortality (guest conductor: Matthew O’Keefe)
Nov 2018	Remembrance (guest conductor: Ruth Holton)
Jul 2018	Songs of Farewell - to our Director of Music for 30 years, George Woodcock
Jun 2018	Choral Celebration Concert (Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Edale)
May 2018	Carr “Counterpoint - a song from the other side” (first performance) with London Consort of Winds
Jan 2018	Tallis “Lamentations”, Bach Motets
Sep 2017	A Concert of Sacred and Secular Music
May 2017	Un Programme Mixte de musique religieuse et laïque (L’église Saint-Martin, Fontenai sur Orne)
May 2017	Kodaly “Missa Brevis”, Swann - “Requiem for the Living”
Jan 2017	Scarlatti “Stabat Mater”, Schütz “Magnificat” and “Nunc Dimittis”
Jun 2016	Naughty and Nice
Apr 2016	Shakespeare Celebration Concert
Jan 2016	Buxtehude “Membra Jesu Nostri”, Pergolesi “Magnificat”
Jun 2015	Songs for Sea and Shore
May 2015	An Evening of Gershwin
Jan 2015	William Mathias “Ave rex”, Maurice Duruflé “Requiem”
Jul 2014	Transport of Delight
May 2014	Leighton “Crucifixus pro nobis”, Archer “Requiem”, Hand “Gainsborough Psalms”
Jan 2014	Te Deum - Charpentier, Stanford, Holst, Sweelinck, Gregorian chant
Jun 2013	Night and Day
Mar 2013	Carr “Ecce Homo - Ibis in crucem” (first performance)
Jan 2013	Handel “Coronation Anthems”, Mozart “Little Mass in C”
Jun 2012	Let us entertain you
May 2012	Requiem - Bob Chilcott; Gabriel Fauré
Jan 2012	Carr “The Epiphany” (first performance) and other music for the season of Epiphany
Jul 2011	Summer Holidays
May 2011	Purcell and Britten
Dec 2010	The Christmas Story in Music
Jul 2010	“The Road to Paradise” celebrated in popular song
May 2010	Bach “Mass in G”, Haydn “Marie Therese Mass”
Dec 2009	Charpentier “Messe de Minuit”, Corp “Christmas Mass”
Jun 2009	Music and Dance
May 2009	The Road to Paradise: Farrant, Child, Sweelinck, M Haydn, Brahms, Harris, Duruflé, Holst, Elgar, Poulenc and others
Dec 2008	Elgar “Great is the Lord”, Buxtehude “Missa Brevis”, Howells “Requiem”
Jun 2008	Wild West Evening
May 2008	Carr “Gloria”, Bach “Missa Brevis in F”, Haydn “St Nicholas Mass”
Dec 2007	Pergolesi “Stabat Mater”, Mozart “Regina Coeli”, Sweelinck, Poulenc, Wilcox, Bullard
Jul 2007	The Seven Ages of Man
May 2007	Magnificat - Pergolesi, Cui, Howells, Purcell, Schutz, Finzi, Vivaldi
Dec 2006	Britten “Ceremony of Carols”, Maw “3 Hymns”, Dvorak “Mass in D”
Jul 2006	A Night at the Opera
May 2006	Bernstein “Chichester Psalms”, Janáček “Otčenás”, Vierne “Messe Solonnelle”, Bullard “Be Joyful!”
Dec 2005	An evening of Gershwin inc. “Porgy and Bess”
Jul 2005	Merrie England
Apr 2005	Pergolesi “Magnificat”, Haydn “Little Organ Mass”, Purcell “Dido and Aeneas”
Dec 2004	Bullard “Mr Lear”, Bush “Christmas Cantata”
Jun 2004	Love and Lust inc. excerpts from “Tom Jones” - Edward German
Mar 2004	Tallis “Lamentations”
Dec 2003	Requiem - Gabriel Fauré, Malcolm Archer
Jul 2003	In the Swing - Music from the 30s and 40s
Apr 2003	Carissimi “Jephte”, Monteverde “Gloria” and “Beatus Vir”, Buxtehude Cantatas
Dec 2002	Sweelinck “Cantiones Sacrae”, Spirituals
Jun 2002	“Trial By Jury” and other Gilbert and Sullivan favourites.
May 2002	Bach, Howells, Knystedt, Barber, Elgar, Spirituals
Dec 2001	Bach “Aus der Tiefe”, Buxtehude “Membra Jesu Nostri”
Jun 2001	A Romantic Evening
Apr 2001	Magnificat - Scarlatti, Mozart, Schutz
Dec 2000	Handel “Israel in Egypt”
Jul 2000	America
Apr 2000	Music for Passiontide - Gesualdo, Poulenc, Lotti, Lassus
Dec 1999	Vaughan Williams “Fantasia on Christmas Carols”, Handel “Messiah” (pt 1)
Jun 1999	A Night on the Ocean Wave
Apr 1999	Kodaly, Blake, Pachelbel
Dec 1998	Carol Concert
May 1998	Bach, Stanford, Knystedt, Vaughan Williams
Dec 1997	Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Elgar, Finzi, West
Apr 1997	Bach “St John Passion”
Dec 1996	A Winter Concert - Poulenc, Bach, Byrd
Jun 1996	A Heavenly Evening
May 1996	Howells, Parry, Britten, Glasser
Dec 1995	When Icicles Hang - Rutter, Leighton, Hand
May 1995	An Evening of Carousing
Dec 1994	Paget “Spirituals”, Tallis “Lamentations”, Stanford “3 Motets”
Jul 1994	An Evening of Caterwauling and Doggerel
Apr 1994	Frank Martin “Mass for Two Choirs”, Grieg, Elgar, Vaughan Williams
Dec 1993	Vaughan Williams “Mass in G”, English Tudor Anthems
May 1993	The Wild West
Mar 1993	Haydn “Maria Teresa Mass”, Handel, Vivaldi, Albinoni
Dec 1992	Britten “Ceremony of Carols”, Janáček “Otčenás”, Poulenc, Grandjany
Jul 1992	Words and Music for a Summer Evening
Jun 1992	Bach “B Minor Mass”
Feb 1992	Purcell, Britten
Nov 1991	Duruflé “Requiem”, Liszt, M Haydn
Jun 1991	Music for a Summer Evening
Apr 1991	Spring Concert - Mozart, Verdi, Schütz, Poulenc, Beethoven
Jun 1990	Down the Danube
Apr 1990	Handel “Dixit Dominus”, Grieg “Holberg Suite”, Haydn “Horn Concerto No 1 in D”
Feb 1990	Scarlatti “Stabat Mater”, Dvorak “Mass in D”
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