Event Category: BFC Concert

For Bollington Festival 2019 the Choir invites singers of all ages (17+) and experience to join us as we prepare for a concert of wonderful operatic music from Purcell to Verdi with internationally renowned mezzo Kathryn Rudge. Music to be performed will include: Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini – Roman Carnival Berlioz – Chant des Chemins de […]

A concert on the lighter side, with Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo by Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz and songs about tempests, ships and animals. In the 1970s jazzy Biblical pieces were all the rage. Publishers Novello asked Joseph Horovitz to write one and he agreed on condition his friend Michael Flanders (of Flanders and Swann) […]

Bollington Arts Centre Wellington Road SK10 5JR All proceeds will benefit Bollington Festival 2019. In the second half of May 2019, Bollington will be home to an astonishing Festival offering something for everyone. From a modest beginning in the 1970s with a few friends gathered round a piano, Messiah for All quickly grew to include […]

Beginning with Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de minuit de Noël, music for the night of the Nativity includes carols and the cantata Der Herr ist mit mir by Bach’s mentor Dietrich Buxtehude before the arrival at dawn of the Shepherds singing the Sanctus of the Missa Brevis by contemporary Czech composer Jiři Pavlica. Concert Tickets: £10 […]

The text of the Requiem Mass has inspired many composers. The Festival Choir has performed settings by Biber, M Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Fauré and John Rutter. And it’s the second time we’ll have performed this profoundly beautiful work by Maurice Duruflé. Based on plainchant but with sumptuous harmonies, drama and consolation are perfectly balanced. […]