7:30pm Sunday 11 June 2017 St Oswald’s Church Bollington Our tribute to The Bard celebrating the 401st Anniversary of his death! Music inspired by Shakespeare, by English composers: high jinks from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, stirring choruses from A Shakespeare Ode by ‘The English Mozart’, Thomas Linley, and Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest, with solo songs […]
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Let God Arise
7:30pm Sunday 9 April 2017 St Oswald’s Church Bollington Music by two giants of the Baroque frame that by the great Romantic, Franz Schubert. Bach’s Cantata 192 Nun Danket, based on the tune we know as Now thank we all our God and Schubert’s charming Mass in G are followed by Handel’s stirring Chandos Anthem Let […]
Singing Day: Inspired by Shakespeare
Saturday 11 March 2017 9:30am – 5:00pm Bollington Arts Centre There’s an innovation this year as the Singing Day features music we’re singing in our Summer Concert. Singers of all ages and abilities are warmly welcome. A chance to sing some wonderful choruses from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and from […]
Messiah for All
7:30pm Tuesday 13 December 2016 Bollington Arts Centre Messiah for All is another Bollington tradition started by Dr John Coope. From a modest beginning with a few friends gathered round a piano, it quickly grew to include an orchestra of friends, to pack the Arts Centre, and to raise thousands of pounds for local charities. […]
An English Christmas
7:30pm Sunday 4 December 2016 St Oswald’s Church Bollington Cecilia McDowall is one of our leading composers of choral music. Her exciting Missa Brevis features alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on English Christmas Carols, a new work by Donald Judge setting a seasonal text from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and uplifting Carols by English composers and arrangers. […]