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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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