Track Record
We have an adventurous approach to choral music making, with a repertoire that covers contemporary commissioned works, classic Renaissance pieces and just about everything in between…
Repertoire from recent seasons has included:
2018 – December – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
GLORIA!
Christmas music and carols for choir and audience
including Bob Chilcott’s ‘Gloria’ with the accompaniment of English Philharmonia Brass
Graham Wili Conductor
2018 – September – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
HAYDN: THE CREATION
Mary Nelson Soprano / Austin Gunn Tenor / Dyfed Wyn Evans Baritone
Graham Wili Conductor
Fresh from our summer performances at Tewkesbury Abbey and the cathedrals of Gloucester and Hereford, we returned to our home audience with this lovely sunny work by Haydn.
2018 – April – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
DURUFLE: REQUIEM
& SCHUBERT: MASS IN G
2017 – December – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
TIDINGS OF JOY
Christmas music and carols for choir and audience
including Ariel Ramirez’s ‘Navidad Nuestra’ with the accompaniment of English Philharmonia Brass
2017 – September – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
2017 – May – Watford Colosseum
IN FLANDERS FIELDS
remembering World War I
Elgar: The Music Makers / The Spirit of England / Polonia
Knowles: In Flanders Fields
singing with Chorleywood Choral Society & The Leconfield Singers
as English Philharmonia Chorus, with English Philharmonia
Supported by the Elgar Society
2016 – September – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
including
Pergolesi: Magnificat
Charpentier: Te Deum
Purcell: I Was Glad
2016 – May – Royal Festival Hall, London
Verdi: Requiem
singing with Chorleywood Choral Society & The Leconfield Singers
as English Philharmonia Chorus, with English Philharmonia
2015 – December – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
Cecilia McDowall: A Winter’s Night • Chris Williams: Ring Out, Wild Bells
plus other seasonal music and carols for choir and audience
with the accompaniment of English Philharmonia Brass
2015 – September – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
Weiss: The Seasons and In Paradisum (UK premiere)
plus works by Bairstown, Brahms, Bruckner and Purcell –
all from our summer tour to Berlin
2015 – May – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
Mendelssohn: Elijah
2014 – December – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
John Rutter: Gloria • Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
plus carols for choir and audience
2014 – September – St Peter’s, Berkhamsted
Fauré: Requiem • Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens • Handel: Zadok the Priest
2014 – August – The Southern Cathedrals Tour
Fauré‘s Requiem and Cecilia McDowall’s Ave Maris Stella
at the cathedrals of Chichester, Winchester and Salisbury.
2014 – May – Watford Colosseum
Singing with Chorleywood Choral Society as English Philharmonia Chorus
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana; Sebastian Weiss: The Seasons – world premiere of this jazz piece, commissioned by the choirs
2013 – December – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols; Herbert Howells: Here is the Little Door plus carols for choir and audience
2013 – September – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Mozart: Missa Brevis, Handel: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened and other pieces from our summer tour of Normandy
2013 – May – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Dido & Aeneas (Purcell)
plus Bach: Cantata BVW 39 and Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
2012 – December – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
A Little Jazz Mass (Bob Chilcott)
plus works by Chris Williams and Sebastian Weiss, and carols for choir and audience
2012 – September – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Vivaldi: Magnificat, Lotti: Crucifixus and other pieces from the summer tour of Northern Italy, where we sang in St Mark’s, Venice, and in churches in Verona and Castelnuovo del Garda
2012 – May – Watford Colosseum
Singing with Chorleywood Choral Society as English Philharmonia Chorus
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace and Chris Williams: Gloria
2011 – December – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Ave Maris Stella (Cecilia McDowall)
plus works by Morten Lauridsen, Chris Williams and Peter Warlock, and carols for choir and audience
2011 – September – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Selections from Messiah (Handel) and other English anthems including Zadok the Priest, and works by Ireland, Parry and Bairstow
2011 – August – Ripon Cathedral & Beverley Minster
Mozart: Requiem and other English anthems including Zadok the Priest, and works by Ireland, Parry and Bairstow
2011 – August – York Minster
Selections from Messiah (Handel) and other English anthems including Zadok the Priest, and works by Ireland, Parry and Bairstow
2011 – May – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart: Ave Verum
Chris Williams: The Cloud
(World Premiere)
2010 – December – St Albans Abbey
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toward The Unknown Region
2010 – August – L’Eglise de la Madeleine & The American Church, Paris; Chartres Cathedral
Haydn: Missa Brevis in F, plus works by Fauré, Duruflé, Dupré, Byrd and Purcell
2010 – February – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Fauré Favourites, including his Requiem
2009 – August – Brussels Cathedral; St Michael’s Church, Leuven; St Boniface Church, Antwerp
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, plus works by Stanford and Bairstow
2009 – May – St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted
Handel: Coronation Anthems, Vivaldi: Stabat Mater
Haydn: St Nicholas Mass
2008 – August – Bath Abbey, Wells Cathedral, Sherborne Abbey
Works by Gabrieli, Lotti, Vivaldi, Mozart, Wagner, Parry, Lauridsen, Williams
2008 – May – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
World premiere of Chris Williams’s Songs of the Coromandel Coast with James Gilchrist, tenor, the Choir of Eltham College and English Philharmonia.
The concert was recorded live and a CD, ‘Songs of the Coromandel Coast’, is available to order.
2007 – August
Barcelona Cathedral, Montserrat Monastery and other venues in Catalonia. European sacred music by Casals, Pergolesi, Handel, Bruckner, Fauré, Rachmaninov, de Severac and Duruflé.