Past concerts
2024
| 24 March 2024 Soloists:Soprano: Emma Dogliani Mezzo-soprano: Emily Gray Tenor: Alex Haigh Bass-baritone: Charles Cunliffe was indisposed and was replaced by Charlie Baigent Orchestra: Haydn Chamber Orchestra Conductor: John K Andrews |
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2023
| 10 December 2023 Soloists Soprano: Emma Dogliani Contralto: Olivia Ray Tenor: Alexander Baker Baritone: Simon Thorpe Orchestra: The Lambeth Orchestra |
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| 29 May 2023 The concert of 23 April 2023 was repeated in Suresnes, Paris on 29 May 2023, with different soloists.23 April 2023 Soloists Soprano: Emma Dogliani Orchestra: The Haydn Chamber Orchestra |
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2022
| 4 December 2022, 7PM
Soloists: Soprano: Emma Dogliani Orchestra: The Lambeth Orchestra This concert celebrated 25 years as the Festival Chorus by performing the same work as in 1997. |
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| 10 April 2022, 7 PM
Soprano: Emma Dogliani Orchestra: Haydn Chamber Orchestra |
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2021
| December 12, 2021
Felix Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise Soloists: To promote Covid safety we limited audience numbers and asked people to book via Eventbrite and to wear masks. Note, re the flyer alongside, that John Savornin was indisposed and was replaced by Felix Kemp at short notice. |
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2020-21
| As in the 2019/20 season the choir made a recording in isolation, this time together with members of our French twinned choir, of the first movement of the Vivaldi Gloria RV 589: to view it, click on the video to the right. We then performed the whole work as a small concert (limited to 30 singers and 80 audience) in our usual venue on June 27th 2021. |
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| No concerts were possible in 2020 due to coronavirus restrictions but members of the choir separately made recordings for two pieces which were then transformed into the musical offerings here. |
Bethlehem Down – Peter Warlock |
2019
| 15th December 2019 Verdi Three opera choruses Gloria all’Egitto from Aida; The Brindisi from La Traviata; Va pensiero from Nabucco. Verdi RequiemSoprano: Emma Dogliani Mezzo-soprano: Victoria Simmonds Tenor: John Upperton Baritone: Simon ThorpeOrchestra: The Lambeth Orchestra Conductor: John AndrewsWe were delighted that – after our successful collaboration in Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem – we were again joined by Chœurs Résonances from Suresnes, Paris for this magnificent work. The Requiem (but not the opera choruses) was presented again in Paris on 25th and on 26th of January 2020. See also the flyers alongside. |
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| April 14 2019 Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
We performed the orchestral version of this popular work, which Rossini wrote 30 years after composing his last opera. Soprano: Emma Dogliani Haydn Chamber Orchestra See also the flyer alongside. |
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2018
| Sunday, 9th December, 2018 7.00 PM Handel Alexander’s Feast Soprano: Alison Langer Tenor: Jorge Navarro Colorado Bass/baritone: James Cleverton Haydn Chamber Orchestra Conductor: John AndrewsHandel’s oratorio uses a libretto based on Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music. For this performance it was presented as a festive masquerade, directed by Didi Hopkins, with puppets made by Caroline Jones (see the picture below of the puppets).See also the flyer alongside.
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| Sunday, April 22nd 2018, 7.00 PM
This was a special concert to mark the centenary of the end of the first World War. We were joined by our twinned choir from Suresnes and accompanied by our friends the Lambeth orchestra. The soloists were Emma Dogliani (soprano) and Jan Capinski (baritone) and John Andrews conducted. See the flyer alongside. The Dona Nobis Pacem was also given twice in Paris, with Chœurs Résonances and the Leicester Symphony Orchestra. On 26 May 2018 it was given at 7 PM at the American Cathedral in Paris, 23, Avenue George V, in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris, midway between the Seine and the Champs-Élysées, and on 27 May at 4 PM in the Eglise du Coeur Immacule de Marie, Suresnes (1 Rue Honore d’Estienne d’Orves, 92150 Suresnes). In Paris the choral work was complemented by a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony. |
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2017
| Sunday December 10, 2017, 7.00 PM
Charles Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass Soprano: Emma Dogliani Conductor: John Andrews |
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| Sunday April 9 2017, 7.00 PM
Johann Sebastian Bach St John Passion St John of Jerusalem Festival Chorus and the For conductor and soloists see the flyer alongside. |
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2016
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Sunday 11 December 16 – 7pm Puccini: Messa di Gloria Conductor: John Andrews John Upperton, tenor The concert included Five Christmas Carols arranged by David Willcocks, for choir and audience. |
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Sunday 17 April 2016 – 7pm
Rossini: Stabat Mater Conductor: John Andrews Mary Plazas soprano |
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2015
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Sunday 13 December 2015 – 7pm Francis Poulenc Gloria FP 177 John Andrews conductor Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No.1 Op. 46 Christopher Fifield conductor |
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Sunday 29 March 2015
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Magnificat
Michael Haydn Requiem in C minor
Emma Dogliani soprano
Katy Bingham-Best mezzo
Peter Mitchell tenor
James Oldfield bass
John Andrews conductor
Haydn Chamber Orchestra
2014
Sunday 7 December 2014
Beethoven Mass in C
Haydn Te Deum
Mozart Exsultate, jubilate
Emma Dogliani soprano
Katie Bray mezzo
Tom Raskin tenor
Robert Gildon bass
John Andrews conductor
Sunday 13 July 2014
Singing Shakespeare
WeiHsi Hu conductor
Philip Voldman piano
Eva Feiler & Tom Lincoln actors
Gordon Gregory & Anna Langley lutes
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story medley
Emma Lou Diemer: Three Shakespeare madrigals
Harry Freedman: Songs from Shakespeare
Thomas Morley: It was a lover and his lass
Cole Porter: Another Op’nin Another Show
Richard Rodgers: In love with love medley
George Shearing: Songs & Sonnets from Shakespeare
| Sunday 6 April 2014 Antonín Dvořák Stabat Mater Felix Mendelssohn Drei PsalmenJohn Andrews conductor Emma Dogliani soprano Olivia Ray mezzo John Upperton tenor Simon Thorpe bass Lambeth Orchestra The Minerva Consort |
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2013
Sunday 8 December 2013
Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1, 4, 5, 6)
John Andrews conductor
WeiHsi Hu: Evangelist tenor
Emma Dogliani soprano
David Sheppard countertenor
Grant Doyle baritone
Haydn Chamber Orchestra
Sunday 23 July 2013
Haydn Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo (with the Chorale du Conservatoire de Suresnes)
Véronique Gautheron conductor
Sunday 14 July 2013
| Alexander L’Estrange Zimbe! Come sing the songs of Africa!WeiHsi Hu conductor Call Me Al quintet Minerva Consort St John of Jerusalem Primary School Children’s Choir |
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Friday 24 May 2013 – in Suresnes with the Chorale du Conservatoire de Suresnes
Haydn Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
Mozart Ave verum corpus
Véronique Gautheron conductor
Sunday 24 March 2013
Josef Haydn Die Schöpfung
John Andrews conductor
Emma Dogliani soprano
Peter Mitchell tenor
James Oldfield baritone
Haydn Chamber Orchestra
2012
Sunday 9 December 2012
Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
Anton Bruckner Locus iste
J.S. Bach Jesu meine Freude BWV 227
Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
John Andrews conductor
Emma Dogliani soprano
Robert Gildon baritone
Philip Voldman piano
Lambeth Orchestra
Minerva Consort
Sunday 8 July 2012
A Night at the Opera – A selection of favourite opera choruses, solos and duets
WeiHsi Hu conductor
Emma Dogliani soprano
John Upperton tenor
Philip Voldman piano
Sunday 1 April 2012
Handel Messiah – 15th anniversary concert
John Andrews conductor
Emma Dogliani soprano
Katy Bingham-Best mezzo
Edward Lee tenor
Christopher Adams bass
Haydn Chamber Orchestra
2011
Sunday 11 December 2011
Mozart: Mass in C Minor K427
17 April 2011
Charpentier Te Deum (also in Suresnes)
Bach Magnificat
Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1
2010
21 November 2010
Mozart Requiem
Mozart Solemn Vespers
25 April 2010
Haydn Nelson Mass
Mozart Coronation Mass
Greig Norwegian Movement
2009
6 December 2009
Faure Requiem
April 2009
European Sacred Music
2007
Stainer Crucifixion
2006
Mozart Coronation Mass K317
Mozart Te Deum in C K141
2005
J S Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1, 2, 3)
Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Mozart Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K339
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
2004
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
Haydn The Creation
2003
J S Bach Magnificat
J S Bach St John Passion (also in Stepney)
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
2002
Handel Anthem on the Peace
Handel Coronation Anthems
2001
Britten St Nicolas Cantata
2000
J S Bach St Matthew Passion
Handel Messiah
Horowitz Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
1999
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb
1998
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
Fauré Requiem
1997
Handel Messiah
1996
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Haydn Chamber Orchestra