July 2025
Oh what a beautiful morning (Rodgers/ Hammerstein, arr. Stickles), Where’re you walk (Handel/ Congreve), Silent worship (Handel, arr. Bishton/ Somervell), Hope is like a harebell (Somervell/ Rossetti), Twist me a crown of windflowers (Somervell/ Rossetti), As torrents in summer (Elgar/ Longfellow), I praise the tender flower (Finzi/ Bridges), Cheres fleurs (Massenet/ Legrand & von Redvitz), The lily and the rose (Chilcott), The rose (Gjeilo/ Rossetti), Willow Song (traditional, arr. Bullard), I know a bank where the wild thyme blows (Quartel/ Shakespeare), Like a singing bird (Chilcott/ Rossetti & Burns), The green Leaves of summer (Tiomkin, arr. Lee/ Webster), The last rose of summer (traditional, arr. L’Estrange/ Moore), Wild mountain thyme (traditional, arr. Bishton), Scarborough fair (traditional, arr. Bishton), Where have all the flowers gone? (Seeger, arr. Bishton), Beauty and the Beast medley (Menken, arr. Emerson/ Ashman), We’ll gather lilacs (Novello, arr. Derbyshire), What a wonderful world (Weiss & Thiele, arr. Brymer)
March 2025
Salve O Vergine Maria – Gioacchino Rossini; Salve Regina – Franz Liszt;
Requiem – Giacomo; Puccini; Messa di Gloria – Giacomo Puccini
December 2024
July 2024
Another Openin’, another show (Kiss me Kate) – Cole Porter; I know a bank – Sarah Quartel; Willow Song – Alan Bullard; How sweet the moonlight sleeps – Henry David Leslie; Fear no more the heat o’ the sun – Gerald Finzi; Where the bee sucks, there suck I – Thomas Arne; Kiss me Kate medley – Clay Warnick/ Cole Porter; Now is the month of May – Thomas Morley; six pieces from Songs and Sonnets – George Shearing; West Side Story choral suite – Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, arr. Mac Huff
March 2024
Afferentur Regi & Locus Iste -Anton Bruckner;
Requiem – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
December 2023
The Manchester Carols – Carol Ann Duffy & Sasha Johnson Manning;
Ding Dong Merrily on High – traditional, arranged J Hughes; The Snow in the Street – Ralph Vaughan Williams & William Morris; Withers Rocking Hymn – Ralph Vaughan Williams; This Endris Night – Sarah Quartel
July 2023
La Marseillaise – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle; I wish I knew how it would feel to be free – Billy Taylor, arr. Emma Bishton; Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (from Nabucco) – Guiseppe Verdi, Temistocle Solera; Polotsvtsian Dance (from Prince Igor) – Alexander Borodin, arr. J Hughes; The fields of Athenry – Pete St. John, arr. Emma Bishton; Skye boat song – traditional (Scots), arr. J Hughes; Liberty Song – William Boyce, John Dickinson; Highlights from Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda, arr. Lisa DeSpain; The march of the women – Ethel Smyth, Cecily Hamilton; Every night when the sun goes in – Traditional (Appalachian), arr. Emma Bishton; All my trials – traditional spiritual; medley from Les Miserables – Claude Michel Schonberg, Alan Boublil, Jean- Marc Natel, Herbert Kretzmer, arr. Ed Lojeski; Aquarius/ Let the sunshine in – Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, arr. Greg Gilpin
March 2023
Hymne au Soleil – Fernand Halphen; Pavanne – Gabriel Faure; Notre Pere – Maurice Durufle; Homage a Jean Gallon; Requiem – Gabriel Faure
December 2022
Christmas music from around Europe
July 2022
A Cole Porter Medley, arranged by A Simmons; All the Things You Are – Hammerstein & Kerr, arranged by A Phillips; Choral Suite from West Side Story – Sondheim & Bernstein, arrangedby M Huff; It’s a Grand Night for Singing – Hammerstein & Rodgers, arranged by A Phillips; Some Enchanted Evening – Hammerstein & Rodgers; Sondheim: A choral celebration – Sondheim, arranged by M Huff
March 2022
Coronation Anthem IV: My Heart is Inditing & Ombra mai fu – George Frideric Handel;
Ave Verum & Coronation Mass – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
November 2021
March 2020
Remember this one? We doubt it. A Red, Red Rose was one of thousands of events cancelled in spring 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
November 2019
June 2019
March 2019
Come and Sing Carmina Burana – Carl Orff. Music Director for the day – Ben Vonberg-Clark.
November 2018
Airs for Armistice. Music from composers who served in, or were connected to, the First World War. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar, Charles Villiers Stanford, Gabriel Faure, Max Reger, Lorenzo Perosi, Sibelius, Gustav Holst, Fernand Halphen, George Butterworth, Ernest Farrar and Samuel Barber.
July 2018
Lunch at the Movies. Hollywood classics including from La La Land, the Lion King, James Bond and others.
April 2018
Hallelujah. Extracts from the Messiah, Solomon, Judas Maccabeus – Handel. Plus works by Haydn, Mozart and Bach.
December 2017
The Manchester Carols – Carol Ann Duffy and Sasha Johnson Manning. A concert of the complete suite.
July 2017
Sizzling Summer Singing. Selections from The Sound of Music, Les Miserables and West Side Story, with barbecue.
May 2017
Elijah – Mendelssohn. Nayland Choir joined Bury Bach Choir in St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
November 2016
Messa di Gloria – Puccini. Cantique de Jean Racine – Faure. O Padre Nostro – Verdi. O Vergine Maria – Rossini.
May 2016
Songs of Fireworks and Fables – modern choral music by Alan Bullard, Bob Chilcott and Eric Whitacre.
November 2015
Surprising Schumann – the little known, but beautiful Missa Sacra Op. 147 and also three Bruckner motets, Afferentur Regi, Locus Iste and Vexilla Regis Prodeunt.
March 2015
Songs from the Jazz Age – romantic and light-hearted songs and readings from between the wars.
November 2014
Brilliant Baroque! – a look back at some of our greatest hits including Vivaldi’s Gloria, and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, and Bach’s St John Passion.
June 2014
Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue – Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, and some new arrangements of familiar songs including Skyfall, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Adiemus.
March 2014
The Sacred in Song – a musical Grand Tour of Europe, taking in nine countries and crossing five centuries. As part of our 20th Anniversary Season, this music is an exploration of the ways that churches use music, in everyday worship as well as on important occasions.
November 2013
The Circling Year, a collection of music (Mendelssohn, Haydn, Hopkins, Purcell, Barber, Morley, Ford, Handel and Lauridsen) and readings, all centering on the changing seasons.
May/July 2013
Requiem – Verdi. A joint venture with Bury Bach Choir in May and The Really Big Chorus and the English Festival Orchestra in the Albert Hall in July.
March 2013
Requiem – Mozart
December 2012
A service of carols including the Manchester Carols – Duffy
November 2012
Requiem – Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine – Faure, Panis Angelicus – Franck, Verleih uns Frieden – Mendelssohn
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