An English Christmas

04-12-2016 19:30 - 22:00

St Oswald's Church Bollington

Address: 7 Bollington Rd, Bollington, Macclesfield SK10 5EG, UK

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.

Concert Tickets: £10 (£3 for 18s and under) 01625 575554

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Englishmen Abroad

08-06-2025 19:30 - 08-06-2025 22:00

7:30pm Sunday 8 June 2025

Bollington Arts Centre

Despite facing racial prejudice, Coleridge-Taylor's settings of Longfellow's epic poem became hugely popular at the very end of the 19th century.

The concert begins with the best known, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.

The other Englishmen abroad are Elgar with his Songs from the Bavarian Highlands and Parry, whose magnificant Blest Pair of Sirens sets John Milton's poem At a Solemn Music.

Concert Tickets: £15 (£5 for 18s and under) 01625 575554