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St.Peter’s Singers of Leeds
2011-2012 Season

Loads of concerts too numerous to list so
please download their brochure here

Concert Season
ST PETER’S SINGERS OF LEEDS - 2011/2012

A Chamber Choir founded in 1977 by Harry Fearnley
David Houlder - Organist
Dr Simon Lindley - Director

British music and spectacular Baroque masterpieces including Bach’s incomparable Mass in B minor – are featured in the Singers’ 35th season, which also includes seldom heard-music from the great Venetian tradition and a very rare liturgical performance of Tomas Luis de Victoria’s beautiful Requiem, the Officium Defunctorum.

www.stpeters-singers.org.uk

Stephen Hope’s Column!

10th December 2011
Proposed trip to Brugges to sing the Messiah with Sinfonia da Chiesa in the Church of Our Lady. Coach about £49 per person which subsidises the orchestra. Interested? E-mail Stephen Hope NOW

11th December 2011
‘Come and Sing' Messiah with Sinfonia da Chiesa in support of Sussex Hospitals at ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL - 3pm rehearsal, 7.30pm concert in aid of Sussex Hospitals.

4th February 2012
'Come and Sing' LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS and VIVALDI GLORIA at CROYDON MINSTER (formerly Croydon Parish Church)

May Half Term 2012
 5 day/4 night tour to Normandy - proposed concerts in Chartres and Bayeaux Cathedrals B&B accommodation and luxury coach travel With Sinfonia da Chiesa. Cost about £465 inclusive. Please let Stephen know if you are interested ASAP. Hotels are booked but they await confirmation.

Sussex Festival Singers has vacancies for this chamber group visiting Cathedrals for Weekend Residencies.
10th-11th Sept 2011 St. Alban’s Cathedral
8-9th April 2012 Norwich Cathedral

Please let Stephen Hope know if you are interested in any of the above.

Thursday 15th December 2011 7.00pm
Orlando Chamber Choir
and Ralph Allwood present

Christmas Concert

Venue: Dutch Church,
7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA

A varied Christmas Concert with music from the Middle Ages to the modern day. The programme includes compositions by Schütz, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and Howell, and a guest appearance by Inner Voices, a young chamber choir consisting of the best singers from eleven inner-London state schools. Wine, mince pies, plenty of surprise sing-along carols and a raffle complete this festive Christmas experience.

• anon – Gaudete!

• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) – Virga Jesse floruit

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) – The crown of roses

• Jakob Handl (1550 - 1591) – Resonet in laudibus (Inner Voices)

• Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983) – Sing lullaby

• Jean Mouton (1459 - 1522) – Nesciens Mater

• Richard Pygott (1485 - 1549) – Quid petis, o fili?

• Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930) – Bethlehem down (with Inner Voices)

• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) – O magnum mysterium

• John Rutter (1945 - ) – What sweeter music (Inner Voices)

• Peter Cornelius (1824 – 1874) – The three kings

• Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672) – Das Wort ward Fleisch

…and many sing-along audience carols!

Tickets at £14, concessions £10, available online from www.orlandochoir.org.uk, by telephone from 01223 247 027 (Karen) and on the door.

For further information please visit www.orlandochoir.org.uk

Saturday 17th December 2011 7.00pm
Bristol Choral Society presents
Bach Christmas Oratorio

Venue: Colston Hall, Bristol

Mark Padmore - tenor
Conductor - Adrian Partington

www.bristolchoral.co.uk

Saturday 17th December 2011 4.00pm
Leatherhead Choral Society and
Leatherhead Community Choir present
Celebrating Christmas

Venue: Christ Church (URC), Epsom Road,
Leatherhead

Join us for seasonal music with audience participation followed by refreshments.

Musical Director: Ian Assersohn

Tickets available on the door£5 adults, £3 under 12s
Collection in aid of Music in Hospitals

More information from Leatherhead Choral Society

Saturday 21st January 7.30pm
Ashtead Choral Society presents
Handel’s Messiah.

Venue: St Martin's Church, Epsom

Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel and first performed in Dublin in 1742 with its London premiere a year later. It has become one of the best-known and most-frequently performed choral works in Western music. Handel wrote Messiah for modest vocal and instrumental forces which, in the years after his death, was adapted for performance on a much larger scale. More recently, the trend has been towards authenticity showing a greater likeness of Handel's original intentions.

The London Gala Orchestra, soloists Cecilia Osmond, David Gould, Julian Stocker and Ben Davies

Conducted by Paul Dodds.

Tickets: £17.00 for reserved seats and £14.00 unreserved from the Box Office Manager on 07504 332354

www.ashteadchoralsociety.org.uk

Saturday 4th February 2012 10am-4pm
Bristol Choral Society presents
Come & Sing
Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

Venue: Tyndale Baptist Church, Bristol

Conductor - Adrian Partington

www.bristolchoral.co.uk

Vendredi 6 avril 2012 20h 45
Polymnia Chamber vous présente
 A LA DECOUVERTE D'ANTONIO CALDARA

Venue: Eglise St Christophe de Cergy-Village,
95000 Cergy France

Antonio Caldara, né à Venise en 1670 et mort à Vienne le 28 décembre 1736, fut un chanteur, un violoncelliste et un compositeur de musique baroque italien de la fin du XVIIe et du début du XVIIIe siècle.
Sa production est importante (plus de 3 000 œuvres) dans tous les domaines et formes musicales : musique religieuse (messes, cantates, motets, 32 oratorios), instrumentale (symphonies) et lyrique (87 opéras, des madrigaux), etc. Son œuvre a influencé l'école de Mannheim ainsi que Haydn et Mozart.

Catherine Libert à l’orgue
Olivier Mathieu à la flûte traversière
Ensemble vocal “Polymnia”
Dirigé par Gilles Gaubert

Site-web L’association Let’s Sing

Saturday 16th June 2012 7.30pm
Bristol Choral Society presents
Handel’s Israel in Egypt

Venue: Bristol Cathedrall

Conductor - Adrian Partington

www.bristolchoral.co.uk