PAST CONCERTS: 1977 to now
2020's
07/12/2024 "A Musical Celebration of the Christmas Story" (with Brackley Wind Orchestra)
14/07/2024 "In the Mood": Captain Noah & his Floating Zoo; classics from the Great American Songbook
23/03/2024 Fauré – Requiem; and other works by Fauré and Bruckner
25/11/2023 800th anniversary of St Peter’s Church Roland Johnson – St Peter’s Gloria; Rutter - anthems
01/07/2023 Choral Medleys from Kiss me Kate, West Side Story and Shakespeare’s Songs and Sonnets
01/04/2023 Stainer – Crucifixion, and selected seasonal anthems
10/12/2022 Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Britten – Ceremony of Carols
09/07/2022 Choruses from Gilbert & Sullivan
02/06/2022 Lighting of the beacon for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
02/04/2022 Rutter – Mass of the Children; selected anthems
13/03/2022 Civic Service
27/11/2021 Choruses from Handel – Messiah; Vivaldi – Gloria
2020 No events took place in 2020 or the first half of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic
2010's
15/12/2019 Family Christmas Concert (Egerton Hall, Brackley)
30/11/2019 Mozart – Requiem; Puccini – Messa di Gloria
06/07/2019 Songs for the Stage
18/06/2019 Songs for the Stage (Evenley Wood)
30/03/2019 Haydn – Missa Brevis in B flat, St Joannis de Deo (Little Organ Mass);
Mozart – Mass in C (Coronation Mass)
18/12/2018 Carols: Candleford Court and Pegasus Court care homes
15/12/2018 Carols: Waitrose
11/12/2018 Carol Concert
10/11/2018 Jenkins – The Armed Man; Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
07/07/2018 Swingin’ Summer – a selection of choral arrangements of classic popular songs
24/03/2018 Duruflé – Requiem; and other sacred music
02/12/2017 Haydn – Mass in D “Nelson”; Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Vivaldi – Gloria
08/07/2017 40th Anniversary Concert: Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs; Handel – excerpts from Messiah;
and music by Mozart, Haydn, Gardiner and Parry
01/04/2017 Chilcott – St John Passion
03/12/2016 Rutter – Magnificat
02/07/2016 Orff – Carmina Burana; opera choruses
19/03/2016 Madrigal & Partsongs
05/12/2015 Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle
05/07/2015 Beethoven – Mass in C, Symphony No 8; Haydn – musical sequence from The Creation
28/03/2015 Fauré – Requiem; church anthems
27/03/2015 Fauré – Requiem (Middleton Cheney)
19/12/2014 Carols: Waitrose Late Night Shopping
13/12/2014 Carols: Victorian Christmas Fayre
06/12/2014 Christmas Allsorts: Carols and Christmas Songs
(with Brackley Junior School and Magdalen College School Brass)
03/12/2014 Lights of Love Service: Archer – The Angel Gabriel + hymns/carols
09/11/2014 Brackley Remembrance Service
21/10/2014 Purcell Evening – Te Deum Laudamus, Rejoice in the Lord Alway, Hear My Prayer, I Was Glad,
Thou Knowest Lord, Remember Not Lord Our Offences, With Drooping Wings, Come Ye Sons of Art,
Sonata in D minor 2nd mvt, Music for a while & If music be the food of love
05/07/2014 Jenkins – The Peacemakers
22/03/2014 Brahms – Alto Rhapsody, Ein Deutsches Requiem
30/11/2013 Britten Centenary Concert – A Ceremony of Carols, Simple Symphony,
The Ballad of Little Musgrave & Saint Nicolas
27/11/2013 Lights of Love: Britten extracts + hymns/carols
06/07/2013 Mendelssohn – Elijah
15/06/2013 Bach – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Wedding)
16/03/2013 Mozart – Solemn Vespers, Ave Verum & Requiem
23/02/2013 Jen Vale’s Incurable Optimism concert: Mozart – Requiem (extracts); You Raise Me Up; Happiness
01/12/2012 Chilcott – On Christmas Night; Blake – The Snowman & Awake Before Sunrise; Anderson – Sleigh Ride
28/11/2012 Lights of Love Service: Chilcott – On Christmas Night + hymns/carols
07/07/2012 Proms Celebration: Handel – Coronation Anthems; Stanford – Songs of the Sea;
Planas – Jehanne D’Arc Suite No 2; Elgar – Pomp & Circumstance March; Arne – Rule Britannia;
Parry – Jerusalem; Elgar – Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Britten – Gloriana Dances;
Butterworth – Banks of Green Willow (with Trinity Camerata)
03/04/2012 Archer – Requiem; MacMillan – Kiss on Wood (St John’s Chapel)
27/03/2012 Archer – Requiem; MacMillan – Kiss on Wood (Middleton Cheney)
17/12/2011 Handel – Messiah
30/11/2011 Lights of Love Service: Schubert – Psalm 23
15/10/2011 Schubert Concert
02/07/2011 Goodall – Eternal Light
09/04/2011 Rutter – Requiem; Jenkins – Stabat mater
19/12/2010 Piazza Community Carols
18/12/2010 Carols (Farmers’ Market)
04/12/2010 Carol Concert (Middleton Cheney)
19/11/2010 Concert for St Cecilia: Gounod – Messe Solennelle; Howells – A Hymn for St Cecilia
14/11/2010 Remembrance Day Service: Harris – Holy is the True Light
25/09/2010 Gilbert & Sullivan – HMS Pinafore (from scratch)
26/06/2010 Haydn – Paukenmesse; Dvorak – Mass in D
20/03/2010 Maunder – Olivet to Calvary; Moore – It is a thing; Lotti – Crucifixus; Pike – Be Thou My Vision;
Pärt – Stabat mater
2000's
19/12/2009 Carols (Farmers’ Market)
08/12/2009 Advent Sequence (St John’s Chapel)
01/12/2009 Advent Sequence (Aynho)
17/10/2009 Vivaldi – Gloria
27/06/2009 Brahms – Liebeslieder Walzer; Orff – Carmina Burana (Brackley Music Festival)
04/04/2009 Handel – Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest & Hallelujah
16/12/2008 Carol Concert
18/10/2008 Fauré – Requiem & Cantique de Jean Racine
27/09/2008 Handel – Messiah (from scratch)
28/06/2008 Jenkins – The Armed Man; Haydn – Missa Brevis; Mendelssohn –Hear My Prayer
18/03/2008 Music for Holy Week
01/12/2007 Britten – Saint Nicolas
07/07/2007 Haydn – The Creation
28/04/2007 Dvorak – Stabat Mater
19/12/2006 Carol Concert
17/10/2006 Choral evensong (Chacombe)
30/09/2006 Fauré – Requiem; Vivaldi – Gloria (from scratch)
08/07/2006 Mozart – Requiem, Ave Verum Corpus & Laudate Dominum (Brackley Music Festival)
11/04/2006 Rutter – Requiem; Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
03/12/2005 Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Finzi – In Terra Pax & Magnificat
09/07/2005 Rutter – Magnificat (Brackley Music Festival)
18/06/2005 Rutter – Magnificat; Handel – Messiah (Towcester Music Festival)
23/04/2005 Handel – Messiah (from scratch)
22/03/2005 Stainer – Crucifixion; Seasonal Anthems
15/03/2005 Stainer – Crucifixion (Kings Sutton Church)
27/11/2004 Charpentier – Midnight Mass; Advent Carols
19/06/2004 Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus & Vesperae Solennes de Confessore; Haydn – Harmoniemesse
(Brackley Music Festival)
01/05/2004 May Day Festival
03/04/2004 Bach – St John Passion
29/11/2003 Handel – Messiah (in aid of Katharine House Hospice)
28/06/2003 20th–century American music: Barber – Agnus Dei; Copland – Appalachian Spring;
Bernstein – Chichester Psalms; Randall Thompson (Brackley Music Festival)
05/04/2003 Duruflé – Requiem
03/12/2002 A Seasonal Miscellany – music and readings for Advent and Christmas
29/06/2002 The Eddie Palmer Memorial Concert: Handel – Coronation Anthem The King Shall Rejoice;
Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs; Finzi – Lo the full final sacrifice; Arne – Rule Britannia;
Elgar – Land of Hope and Glory; Parry – Jerusalem (Brackley Music Festival)
23/03/2002 Beethoven – Mass in C
01/12/2001 Sacred Music through the Centuries inc. Tallis; Purcell; Bach; Stanford
23/06/2001 Vivaldi – Gloria; Rutter – Gloria; Monteverdi – Beatus Vir (Brackley Music Festival)
10/04/2001 Maunder – Olivet to Calvary
02/12/2000 Concert to celebrate life of Eddie Palmer: Fauré – Requiem & Cantique de Jean Racine;
Parry – I was glad
14/10/2000 Handel – Messiah (in aid of hospices)
24/06/2000 Handel – Messiah (Brackley Music Festival)
18/04/2000 Act of Devotion for Holy Week
15/01/2000 Handel – Zadok the Priest; Dvorak – Mass in D
1990's
26/06/1999 Haydn – Nelson Mass (Brackley Music Festival)
30/03/1999 Act of Devotion for Holy Week
16/01/1999 Mozart – Requiem
20/06/1998 Choir & organ concert inc. Parry – I was glad (Brackley Music Festival)
07/04/1998 Fauré – Requiem; Mendelssohn – Hear my Prayer; Moore – It is a thing most wonderful
24/01/1998 Haydn – Harmoniemesse
18/10/1997 Mendelssohn – Elijah (with Banbury Choral Society)
28/06/1997 Haydn – Creation (Brackley Music Festival)
25/03/1997 Music and readings for Passiontide
18/01/1997 Haydn – St Cecilia Mass
06/07/1996 Handel – Messiah (Brackley Music Festival)
02/04/1996 Act of Devotion for Holy Week
20/01/1996 Haydn – Maria Theresa Mass; Buxtehude – The Little Newborn Jesus Child; Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus
11/07/1995 Choral Evensong
13/06/1995 Choral Evensong
08/04/1995 Elgar – Dream of Gerontius (with Banbury Choral Society)
28/02/1995 Archer – Requiem
08/10/1994 Handel – Messiah (in aid of hospices)
05/06/1994 Choral Evensong (South Newington)
22/03/1994 Music & Readings for Passiontide
15/01/1994 Mendelssohn – Hymn of Praise
25/09/1993 Britten – Te Deum; Dvorak – Mass in D
30/03/1993 Act of Devotion – Anthems & Readings
16/01/1993 Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine & Requiem
19/09/1992 Bach – Mass in B minor
11/01/1992 Mozart –Te Deum & Mass in C
05/10/1991 Haydn – Creation (in aid of hospices)
07/07/1991 Choral Evensong (Syresham)
02/07/1991 Choral Evensong
13/04/1991 Mendelssohn – Elijah (with Banbury Choral Society)
12/01/1991 Kodaly – Missa Brevis; Mendelssohn – Hear my Prayer; Britten – Te Deum
19/06/1990 Choral Evensong
07/04/1990 Verdi – Requiem (with Banbury Choral Society)
13/01/1990 Schubert – Mass in G; Mozart – Ave Verum, Seraphim & Three Kings
1980's
23/05/1989 Choral Evensong
18/03/1989 Handel – Messiah
10/12/1988 Haydn – Nelson Mass
14/06/1988 Choral Evensong
29/03/1988 Fauré – Requiem
27/02/1988 Bach – St John Passion
16/06/1987 Choral Evensong (Syresham)
09/05/1987 Mendelssohn – St Paul
10/01/1987 Mozart – Requiem in D minor
08/07/1986 Choral Evensong
20/05/1986 Bach – Jesu Priceless Treasure
04/01/1986 Haydn – Maria Theresa Mass & Insanae et Vanae Curae
15/09/1985 Choral Evensong (Canons Ashby)
20/04/1985 Brahms – Requiem
18/12/1984 Christmas Carols
08/10/1984 Handel – Messiah (in aid of hospices)
19/06/1984 Choral Evensong
07/04/1984 Elgar – Dream of Gerontius (with Banbury Choral Society)
03/07/1983 Choral Evensong (Helmdon)
01/04/1983 Stainer – Crucifixion
29/03/1983 Stainer – Crucifixion (Aynho)
12/12/1982 Mozart – Missa Brevis in F
03/04/1982 Verdi – Requiem (with Banbury Choral Society)
30/06/1981 Purcell – Fairy Queen
28/05/1981 Evensong for Ascension Day
21/12/1980 Charpentier – Midnight Mass; Handel – Messiah (part)
07/05/1980 Arts & Crafts Recital: The Seasons in Music, Words and Pictures
24/02/1980 Fauré – Requiem; church music by Purcell & Stanford
1970's
10/06/1979 Choral Evensong
11/02/1979 Haydn – Creation
01/06/1978 Madrigals & Part Songs
26/01/1978 Handel – Messiah
09/06/1977 Inaugural Concert: Jubilee Concert of Coronation Music