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:
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.
