Works performed to date:
Spring 2025 – Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (we sang the following choruses: 22 Behold the Lamb of God, 24 Surely He hath borne our griefs, 25 And with his stripes, 26 All we like sheep, 28 He trusted in God, 33 Lift up your heads, 37 The Lord gave the Word, 44 Hallelujah chorus, 46 Since by man came death, 53 Worthy is the Lamb.
Autumn 2024 – Alan Bullard: ‘A Light in the Stable’; a selection of Christmas music and carols
Spring 2024 – Ariel Ramirez: ‘Misa Criolla’; Rutter: ‘The Sprig of Thyme’
Autumn 2023 – Geoffrey Bush: ‘A Christmas Cantata’; selection of Christmas music and Carols
Spring 2023 – Haydn: ‘Little organ mass’; Elgar: ‘Ave Verum Corpus’; Mozart: ‘Laudate Dominum’; Mozart: ‘Ave Verum Corpus’; Mendelssohn: ‘Hear my Prayer’
Autumn 2022 – Vivaldi: Gloria; A selection of Christmas music and Carols
Autumn 2019 – J. S. Bach: Sleepers Awake; R Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Spring 2019 – SS Wesley: Ascribe unto the Lord; CHH Parry: I was glad; B Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass
Autumn 2018 – Maunder: Bethlehem; Rutter: Angels’ Carol; Adam: O holy night
Spring 2018 – Stainer: The Crucifixion; Brahms: How lovely are thy dwellings; Sumsion: They that go down to the sea in ships
Autumn 2017 – Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme; K Johnston: I landed with Seven Men
Spring 2017 – Dvořák: Mass in D
Autumn 2016 – Handel: Let thy hand be strengthened; Noble: Magnificat in A; Britten: Ceremony of Carols; Rutter: Star Carol
Spring 2016 – Choral medley from Les Misérables; choral medley from West Side Story; ‘Blue Moon’
Autumn 2015 – Finzi: In terra pax; Bach: Christians be joyful; Schubert: Magnificat; Rutter: Donkey Carol
Spring 2015 – Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer; Hymn of Praise
Autumn 2014 – Elgar: For the Fallen; Mozart: Requiem
Spring 2014 – Schubert: Mass in C (D452), Stabat Mater in D (D175); SS Wesley: The Wilderness; Williamson: Procession of Palms
Autumn 2013 – Haydn: The Creation
Spring 2013 – Purcell: Come ye sons of art; choruses from operas by Purcell, Handel, Mozart, Bizet, Wagner and Verdi
Autumn 2012 – Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Spring 2012 – Haydn: movements from Spring (The Seasons); D Swann: Requiem for the Living
Autumn 2011 – Schubert: Intende voci orationis; Mendelssohn: 42nd Psalm
Spring 2011 – Fauré: Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine, Tantum Ergo, Agnus Dei from Messe Basse, Franck:
Autumn 2010 – Handel: Messiah (Part 1 plus popular choruses)
Spring 2010 – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Autumn 2009 – Handel: Coronation Anthems; Charpentier: Messe de Minuit; Adam: O Holy Night
Spring 2009 – Cherubini: Requiem (SATB version)
Autumn 2008 – Holst: Christmas Day; Lloyd Webber: Medley from “Phantom of the Opera”, Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass; Vaughan Williams: The First Nowell
Spring 2008 – Maunder: Olivet to Calvary
Autumn 2007 – Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man (Choral Suite); Songs by Finzi (7 Poems of Robert Bridges) and Schubert; Christmas Carols
Spring 2007 – Stainer: The Crucifixion; S.S. Wesley: Blessed be the God and Father; Elgar: Give Unto the Lord
Autumn 2006 – Schubert: Mass in G; Selection of Christmas Carols
Spring 2006 – Haydn: Little Organ Mass; Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands; Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Autumn 2005 – Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Finzi: In Terra Pax;Popular Christmas Carols
Spring 2005 – Gounod: Messe Solenelle; Poulenc: Gloria
Autumn 2004 – Monteverdi: Beatus Vir; Handel: O Come Let us Sing; Parry: I Was Glad; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Spring 2004 – Haydn: Te Deum; Beethoven: Mass in C
Autumn 2003 – Vivaldi: Gloria; Mozart: Solemn Vespers
Spring 2003 – Rutter: Gloria; Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes; Handel: Zadok the Priest
Autumn 2002 – Mozart: C minor Mass
Spring 2002 – Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (Joint concert with MCS)
Autumn 2001 – Vaughan Williams: O be Joyful in the Lord; Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Requiem; Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
Spring 2001 – Haydn: Te Deum, Insanae et Vanae Curae, Nelson Mass
Autumn 2000 – Elgar: Great is the Lord & Give unto the Lord; Finzi: God is gone up; Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem
Spring 2000 – Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb; Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs; Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands
Autumn 1999 – Mozart: Solemn Vespers; Gounod: Messe Solenelle
Spring 1999 – Handel: Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chandos Anthem No. 9); Mozart: Mass in C; Parry: I Was Glad
Autumn 1998 – Bach: Cantata No.140 (Sleepers Wake); Finzi: In Terra Pax; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Spring 1998 – Handel: Messiah (Joint concert with MCS)
Autumn 1997 – Handel: Zadok the Priest; Mozart: Requiem
Spring 1997 – Vivaldi:Gloria; Schubert: Mass in G; Elgar: Give Unto The Lord
Autumn 1996 – Fauré: Requiem; Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens