Each year the Festival Choir and members of the Chamber Orchestra offer their reflections on this lovely season – “so hallow’d and so gracious is the time”. These words of Shakespeare from Hamlet’s castle of Elsinore are a fitting introduction to Christmastide. The choir sings works that are old and works that are new, things […]
A Night at the Opera: June 2011
What a delightful concert this was. Its title ‘A Night at the Opera’, as Donald Judge pointed out, makes many people think of the Marx Brothers in that unforgettable film: but what the Bollington Festival Choir and soloists presented was a programme of arias, choruses and piano pieces, ranging from the Baroque, starting with Purcell, […]
Haydn and Mozart: April 2011
The Bollington Festival Choir and Orchestra are in excellent form, achieved by a sustained renewal during these last few years. They gave a stimulating performance of works by Mozart and Haydn, and included an organ prelude by Buxtehude. There has been a marked change in the choir from concert to concert over the recent period […]