Bollington Festival Choir’s first rehearsal of the 2025-2026 Season is at Bollington Arts Centre on Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 7:45pm. Please check this website for news of our concerts and other events.
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Englishmen Abroad
7:30pm Sunday 8 June 2025 Bollington Arts Centre Despite facing racial prejudice, Coleridge-Taylor’s settings of Longfellow’s epic poem became hugely popular at the very end of the 19th century. The concert begins with the best known, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. The other Englishmen abroad are Elgar with his Songs from the Bavarian Highlands and Parry, whose […]
Coronation Anthems
7:30pm Sunday 6 April 2025 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Bollington Road SK10 5EG For the first time in the Choir’s history we will perform all four of Georg Frideric Handel’s magnificent anthems for the 1727 Coronation of George II. The concert opens with the Stabat Mater by Antonio Caldara who influenced Handel’s operatic style. A […]
Messiah for All
7:30pm Tuesday 17 December 2024 Bollington Arts Centre Wellington Road SK10 5JR Proceeds will be shared between the Organ Repair Fund for St Oswald’s Church and the Choir. a charity providing quality choral music in Bollington. With orchestra led by Nicola Bright Tickets £10: 01625 511881 … Booking essential! From a modest beginning in the […]
Folk Song Masses
7:30pm Sunday 1 December 2024 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Bollington Road SK10 5EG Two charming Christmas Masses based on Folk Carols, one French, one Czech. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit from 1694 sets the Latin texts to traditional folk carol melodies, while Edmund Pascha’s Pastoral Mass from the 1770s inserts the Christmas Story sung in […]