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7:30pm Sunday 24 February 2019 Bollington Arts Centre A concert on the lighter side, with Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo by Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz and songs about tempests, ships and animals. In the 1970s jazzy Biblical pieces were all the rage. Publishers Novello asked Joseph Horovitz to write one and he agreed on condition […]

7:30pm Tuesday 18 December 2018 Bollington Arts Centre All proceeds will benefit Bollington Festival 2019. In the second half of May 2019, Bollington will be home to an astonishing Festival offering something for everyone. From a modest beginning in the 1970s with a few friends gathered round a piano, Messiah for All quickly grew to […]

7:30pm Sunday 9 December 2018 St Oswald’s Church Beginning with Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de minuit de Noël, music for the night of the Nativity includes carols and the cantata Der Herr ist mit mir by Bach’s mentor Dietrich Buxtehude before the arrival at dawn of the Shepherds singing the Sanctus of the Missa Brevis by […]

7:30pm Sunday 10 June 2018 St Oswald’s Church The text of the Requiem Mass has inspired many composers. The Festival Choir has performed settings by Biber, M Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Fauré and John Rutter. And it’s the second time we’ll have performed this profoundly beautiful work by Maurice Duruflé. Based on plainchant but with […]