Bollington Festival Choir

The perfect English summer’s day needed something alive and beautiful to bring it to a fitting end: and what better than the sound of English song and music in an old village church in the quiet of the evening. The Festival Choir of Bollington gave their listeners such an evening at St. Oswald’s Church last […]

Mendelssohn’s oratorio ‘St. Paul’ has not become a familiar part of the main oratorio repertoire in this country: and yet it was a very welcome surprise to hear the Bollington Festival Choir and Chamber Orchestra perform this work at the Arts Centre on Palm Sunday. It has not the spiritual power and magnificence of ‘The […]

After the days of splendour and celebration for the Diamond Jubilee of H. M. The Queen in London and all over the country, it was fitting to find a conclusion to the excitements with the Festival Choir giving their Bollington audience an evening with Gilbert and Sullivan. It was a happy choice, very English, as […]

What a fine performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus was given by the Bollington Festival Choir and Orchestra, with soloists from the R.N.C.M., on Palm Sunday. It raised not only sustained applause at the end, but cheers as well. This oratorio begins with an atmosphere of solemnity and desolation but it gradually leads the listener through […]