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 […]
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Singing Day: Duruflé Requiem
Saturday 14 April 2018 9.30am – 4.30pm Bollington Arts Centre Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem is one of the most beautiful and evocative settings of the Requiem Mass. Singers who would like to join us just for the day will be very welcome, but even better, join us on succeeding Tuesday evenings and sing in the concert […]
Creation Mass/Vespers
7:30pm Sunday 25 March 2018 St Oswald’s Church Josef Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the old master and the young prodigy, delighted their listeners in the late 18th century and continue to do so over 200 years later. Haydn’s late Creation Mass is so called because he quoted music from Adam and Eve’s duet in […]
Messiah for All
7:30pm Tuesday 12 December 2017 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Road SK10 5EG This year, our ever popular Messiah for All will be at St Oswald’s, with all proceeds going to their organ repair fund. Join us, our soloists and orchestra of friends for a good sing and an essential part of Christmas in Bollington! In […]
Oratorio de Noël
7:30pm Sunday 3 December 2017 Bollington Arts Centre Camille Saint-Saëns, best known for Carnival of the Animals, Dance Macabre and the Organ Symphony, was a young man of 23 when he composed his delightful Christmas Oratorio in 1858. A perfect start to the Festive Season which includes carols with a French flavour and a new […]
