Event Category: BFC Concert

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 […]

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 sombre yet beautiful work that will help create a journey from darketness to […]

Bollington Arts Centre Wellington Road SK10 5JR With local soloists and orchestra led by Nicola Bright, 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. Tickets £10: 01625 511881 … Booking essential! From a modest beginning in the 1970s with […]

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 English. The concert also features a brand new work by Adrienne Spilsbury, viola […]

A classical tragedy telling the love of the doomed Carthaginian Queen for a Trojan war hero. Passion, witchcraft, betrayal and death told in glorious music from the 17th century. Concert Tickets: £15 (£5 for 18s and under) 01625 575554 Please note that there will be Interval refreshments (tea and coffee) with donations welcome; a raffle […]