Bollington Festival Choir

Concerts at Christmas usually follow a pattern that is well-trodden and well-loved: but not so this time, with this concert. It was a kaleidoscope of carols and motets from differing folk cultures, composers and languages, ranging over four centuries and more, and all held together as a continuous stream of music and song inviting us […]

The perfect English summer’s day needed something alive and beautiful to bring it to a fitting end: and what better than the sound of English song and music in an old village church in the quiet of the evening. The Festival Choir of Bollington gave their listeners such an evening at St. Oswald’s Church last […]

Mendelssohn’s oratorio ‘St. Paul’ has not become a familiar part of the main oratorio repertoire in this country: and yet it was a very welcome surprise to hear the Bollington Festival Choir and Chamber Orchestra perform this work at the Arts Centre on Palm Sunday. It has not the spiritual power and magnificence of ‘The […]

After the days of splendour and celebration for the Diamond Jubilee of H. M. The Queen in London and all over the country, it was fitting to find a conclusion to the excitements with the Festival Choir giving their Bollington audience an evening with Gilbert and Sullivan. It was a happy choice, very English, as […]