Saturday 14 April 2018 9.30am – 4.30pm Bollington Arts Centre Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem is one of the most beautiful and evocative settings of the Requiem Mass. Singers who would like to join us just for the day will be very welcome, but even better, join us on succeeding Tuesday evenings and sing in the concert […]
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Singing Day: Duruflé Requiem
Creation Mass/Vespers2018/03/25 19:30 -
Josef Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the old master and the young prodigy, delighted their listeners in the late 18th century and continue to do so over 200 years later. Haydn’s late Creation Mass is so called because he quoted music from Adam and Eve’s duet in the Gloria, thereby scandalising the Empress Maria Theresa. […]
Messiah for All2017/12/12 19:30 - 2017/1
This year, our ever popular Messiah for All will be at St Oswald’s, with all proceeds going to their organ repair fund. Join us, our soloists and orchestra of friends for a good sing and an essential part of Christmas in Bollington! In the 1740s those lucky enough to get a ticket for performances of […]
Oratorio de Noël2017/12/03 19:30 - 2017/
Camille Saint-Saëns, best known for Carnival of the Animals, Dance Macabre and the Organ Symphony, was a young man of 23 when he composed his delightful Christmas Oratorio in 1858. A perfect start to the Festive Season which includes carols with a French flavour and a new piece from the Choir’s conductor Donald Judge: a […]
Shakespearian Shenanigans2017/06/11 19:3
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 performed by Choir members. More Information