KEY MILESTONES
- In December 2022, we gave the first UK performance of two masterworks by women composers: The Ballad of the Brown King by Margaret Bonds and Peace on Earth by Amy Beach.
- In November 2021 we performed a Remembrance Sunday Covid-Memorial performance of two works for choir and orchestra by our old friend Dan Forrest, his Requiem for the Living, and in paradisum.
- In March 2022 we gave our fortieth anniversary performance of Purcell’s King Arthur, the very same work the choir performed at its first major concert on 7 March 1981.
- During our most recent years, we have tackled Forrest’s Jubilate Deo, Handel’s Messiah and Zadok the Priest, Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, and Sullivan’s Festival Te Deum.
In the intervening years we have performed works including: Berlioz’ Te Deum; Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem; Britten’s Saint Nicolas; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; Fauré’s Requiem; Gluck’s Orpheus; Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, Judas Maccabæus and Samson; Haydn’s Harmonie messe, Missa in tempore belli, Nelson’s Mass and The Creation; Mendelssohn’s Elijah; Mozart’s Requiem; Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate; Ramírez’ Navidad nuestra; Rutter’s Requiem; Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets; Verdi’s Requiem; Vivaldi’s Gloria; and Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region.