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  • Summer Season 2023

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    1st July 2023, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    From Newbury to Trondheim
    A concert of British and Norwegian folk music, with Trondheim Male Voice Choir (Trondernes Mandssangforening)

  • Spring Season 2023

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    18th March 2023, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Mendelssohn: St Paul

  • Winter Season 2022

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    3rd December 2022, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
    Karl Jenkins: A Celebration of Christmas
    James Whitbourn: Missa Carolae
    Goff Richards: A Merry Little Christmas

  • Summer Season 2022

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    2nd July 2022, Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton

    The programme

    VIVE LA RENAISSANCE!

    The Liturgical Year
    Guerrero: Canite tuba in Sion
    Palestrina: Alma redemptoris mater
    Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
    Victoria: O magnum mysterium
    Gibbons: Almighty and everlasting God
    Hassler: Dixit Maria
    Farrant: Call to remembrance
    Anerio: Christus factus est
    Palestrina: Sicut cervus
    Susato: Three Dances (organ)
    Tallis: If ye love me
    Philips: Ascendit Deus
    Tallis: O nata lux
    Monteverdi: Cantate Domino

    The Protestant Tradition
    Batten: Sing Joyfully
    Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis
    Tomkins: I heard a voice from heaven
    Tye: Give almes of thy goods
    Tomkins: When David heard

    Gabrieli: Canzona per sonare No.1 ‘La spiritata’ (organ)

    The Catholic Tradition
    Victoria: O quam gloriosum
    Aichinger: Factus est repente
    Byrd: Ave verum corpus
    Victoria: Jesu, dulcis memoria
    Monteverdi: Beatus vir

  • Spring Season 2022

    26th March 2022, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Haydn: Te Deum
    Haydn: Symphony No.36 (Linz)
    Haydn: Heiligmesse

  • Winter Season 2021

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    4th December 2021, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Handel: Messiah

  • Winter Season 2019

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    7th December 2019, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Rheinberger: The Star of Bethlehem
    Finzi: In terra pax
    Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
    Coleridge-Taylor: Christmas Overture
    Vivaldi: Winter

  • Summer Season 2019

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    29th June 2019, Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton

    The programme

    Rutter: Gloria
    Lauridsen: Lux Arterna
    Purcell: I was glad
    Tomkins: I heard a voice from heaven
    Elgar: Great is the Lord
    Grieg: Ave, Maris Stella
    Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
    Britten: Festival Te Deum
    Ola Gjielo: The Ground

  • Spring Season 2019

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    23rd March 2019, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Haydn: The Seasons

  • Winter Season 2018

    Concert Feedback for Audience Members
    1st December 2018, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

    The programme

    Handel: Samson