Bollington Festival Choir

It took a moment to realise that the first page of the programme was written in Italian – even to the date of the day. This was the first surprise of the evening in which the Bollington Festival Choir for a few hours took their audience away to Italy in their summer concert: and what […]

It was a happy choice for the Bollington Festival Choir and Orchestra to present a Requiem Mass by Michael Haydn followed by the ‘Coronation’ Mass of Mozart. The Michael Haydn Mass, though not being a major work in the choral repertoire, is a fine and pleasing piece. It kept to the solemnity of the Mass […]

It was impressive to see the Festival Choir and Orchestra, led by their conductor Donald Judge, walk into place, their usual dress changed to black and only a vivid spot of colour from a blood red poppy at the shoulder of each person to relieve the gravity. This concert was rather a meditation on the […]

Concerts at Christmas usually follow a pattern that is well-trodden and well-loved: but not so this time, with this concert. It was a kaleidoscope of carols and motets from differing folk cultures, composers and languages, ranging over four centuries and more, and all held together as a continuous stream of music and song inviting us […]