7:30pm Sunday 10 June 2018 Here are the programme notes and texts for the Duruflé Requiem concert Concert Programme Notes Concert Texts
Duruflé Requiem
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 […]
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 […]
Newsletter: January 2018
Low Notes 10 By David Ward January 2018. This is the latest in an erratic series of newsletters about the choir that will include information about what we are singing plus irrelevant ramblings and observations from the back row of the basses. I’m sure many of you will have heard the sad news that David Ransley […]
Oratorio de Noël: December 2017
In spite of the strains between Europe and this country, the Entente Cordiale is flourishing in Bollington. The Festival Choir with some of the orchestra presented a programme of carols and works for choir, individual voices and for instruments, the music for which mostly came from France. It also became the occasion of the première […]