Our history (archive)



In 2008 we performed:

Vivaldi - Gloria
Handel - Dettingen Te Deum


In 2007 we performed:

Stravinsky - Mass
Schubert arr. Brahms - Ellens Gesang
Bruckner - Mass in E minor
Brahms - Gypsy Songs
Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Romancero Gitano
Barber- Sure on this Shining Night
Barber- The Monk and his Cat


In 2006 we performed:

Handel arr Mozart - Messiah
Bruckner - Locus iste
Bruckner - Ave Maria
Tippett - Five Negro Spirituals
Britten - Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Bailey - I can still make you out... (commissioned)
Casals - O vos Omnes


In 2005 we performed:

Elgar - Songs from the Saga of King Olaf
Bach - St John Passion
Handel - Hallelujah Chorus [Messiah]
Handel - Zadok the Priest
Mascagni - Easter Hymn [Cavalleria rusticana]
Faure - Pavanne
Verdi - Brindisi [La Traviata]
Orff - O Fortuna [Carmina Burana]
Arne arr. Sargent - Rule Britannia
Parry - Jerusalem
Elgar- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
Rossini - Petite Messe Solonnelle


In 2004 we performed:

Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony
Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales
Brahms - How lovely are Thy dwellings [German Requiem]
Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine
Haydn - Insanae et vanae curae
Mozart - Ave verum Corpus
Parry - Blest pair of sirens
Mascagni - Easter Hymn [Cavalleria rusticana]
Verdi - Chorus of the Hebrew slaves [Nabucco]
Handel - Hallelujah chorus [Messiah]
Haydn - The heavens are telling [The Creation]
Vaughan Williams - Toward the unknown region
Walton - Gloria
Haydn - Creation
Beethoven - Symphony No.9


In 2003 we performed:
Mahler - Second Symphony - "Resurrection"
Verdi - Requiem
Hovhaness - O for a Shout of Sacred Joy
Rakhmaninov - Bogoroditse Devo
Ramirez - Misa Criolla
Mozart - Overture "The Magic Carpet"
Foster - Camptown Races
Grainger - Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon
Grainger - Australian Up-country Song
Burton - Great getting-up morning
Burton - Ev'ry time I feel the spirit
Toch - Geographical Fugue
Holst - Rig-Veda, III group: Hymn to the Dawn
Trad - Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Jenkins - The Armed Man
Verdi - Te Deum


In 2002 we performed:
Handel - Zadok the Priest
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Walton - Crown Imperial
Brahms - Alto Rhapsody
Vaughan Williams - Five Tudor Portraits
Rimsky Korsakov - Capriccio Espangnol
Rakhmaninov - The Bells
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky - Waltz Scene from Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky - Overture 1812
Goodall - 23rd Psalm ( Vicar of Dibley Theme)
Bridge - A Prayer
Pärt - Beatitudes
Rakhmaninov - To Thee O Lord
Pärt - Littlemore Tractus
Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
Dove - Who Killed Cock Robin?


In 2001 we performed:
Britten - War Requiem
Bruckner - Mass No.2 in E minor
Holst - The Planets (Pärt)
Joubert - The Choir Invisible
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
Mozart - Serenade in E flat k375
Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Tavener - A hymn to the Mother of God
Tavener - Song for Athene
Whittaker - The Coelestial Sphere
Vaughan Williams - Toward the Unknown Region


In 2000 we performed:
Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Handel - Messiah
Beethoven - Mass in C
Bliss - Pastoral
Orff - Carmina Burana
Verdi - Requiem


In 1999 we performed:
Bach - St John Passion
Rutter - Gloria
Tavener - A Hymn to the Mother of God
Tavener - Song for Athene
Gabrieli - Buccinate in neomenia
Patterson - Magnificat
Bruckner - Afferentur regi
Bruckner - Ecce Sacerdos
Berlioz - Te Deum


In 1998 we performed:
Mozart - Requiem
Hovhaness - Magnificat
Gorecki - Amen
Handel - Israel in Egypt
Adams - Harmonium
Concert version of Bizet's Carmen arr Gibbons


In 1997 we performed:
Fauré - Requiem
Szymanowski - Stabat Mater
Selection of Gospel Songs
Grainger - Ballads
Poulenc - Gloria
Gounod - Saint Cecilia Mass
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Christmas Carols


In 1996 we performed:
Mozart - Mass in C Minor
Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
Fanshawe - African Sanctus
Elgar - Dream of Gerontius
Bridges - A Prayer


In 1995 we performed:
Haydn - Nelson Mass
Duruflé - Requiem
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Weill - selections
Verdi - Requiem
Handel - Messiah Pärt I


In 1994 we performed:
Bach - Mass in B Minor
Handel - Dixit Dominus
Vivaldi - Beatus Vir
Delius - Sea Drift
Orff - Carmina Burana


In 1993 we performed:
Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
Byron - Three English Lyrics (commissioned)
Haydn - Maria Theresa Mass
Grainger - Part-songs
Medley of Lennon and McCartney songs (arr John Gibbons)
Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony
Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs



In 1992 we performed:
Bach - St Matthew Passion
Rossinni - Petite Messe Solennelle
Walton - Belshazzar's Feast
Elgar - Sea Pictures



In 1991 we performed:
Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
Berlioz - Nuits d'été
Haydn - The Creation
Fauré - Messe Basse
Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
Handel - Messiah



In 1990 we performed:
Beethoven - Missa Solemnis
Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Mozart - Coronation Mass
Vivaldi - Gloria



In 1989 we performed:
Howells - Hymnus Paradisi
Holst - Hymn of Jesus
Brahms - Liebeslieder Waltzen
Bach - St John Passion
Elgar - Dream of Gerontius



In 1988 we performed:
Elgar - Dream of Gerontius
Monteverdi - Beatus Vir
Bruckner - Mass in E Minor
CPE Bach - Magnificat
Britten - War Requiem



In 1987 we performed:
Britten - War Requiem
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Drayton - Harp Song of the Dane Women
Bach - St Matthew Passion



In 1986 we performed:
Tippett - A Child of our Time
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Burgon - Names of the Hare (commissioned)
Beethoven - Choral Fantasia
Mozart - Requiem



In 1985 we performed:
Rossini - Stabat Mater
Bizet - Te Deum
Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs
Tippett - Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
JS Bach - Magnificat
JS Bach - Easter Oratorio



In 1984 we performed:
Verdi - Requiem
Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
Vaughan Williams - G Minor Mass
Mozart - C Minor Mass



In 1983 we performed:
Dankworth - The Diamond and the Goose
Fauré - Requiem
Finzi - The Fall of the Leaf
Duruflé - Requiem
Purcell - Ode on St Cecilia's Day
Handel - My Heart is Inditing



In 1982 we performed:
Berlioz - Te Deum
Brahms - Song of Destiny
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
Handel - Messiah



In 1981 we performed:
Orff - Carmina Burana
Ireland - These things shall be
Walton - Crown Imperial
Fauré - Requiem
Tippett - Negro Spirituals
Oliver - A String of Beads (commissioned)
Handel - Let thy hand be strengthened



In 1980 we performed:
Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
Mendelssohn - Elijah



In 1979 we performed:
Haydn - The Creation
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia
Walton - Belshazzar's Feast
Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad



In 1978 we performed:
Bach - Christmas Oratorio
Elgar - Dream of Gerontius
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony



In 1977 we performed:
Handel - Acis And Galatea
Handel - O Praise the Lord with one consent
Verdi - Requiem



In 1976 we performed:
Beethoven - Mass in C
Bach - St John Passion



In 1975 we performed:
Orff - Carmina Burana
Haydn - Nelson Mass



In 1974 we performed:
Britten - St Nicholas



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