Music - Choral

Unsung Heroes – Neglected masterpieces of choral music Rheinberger's beautiful Mass for double choir, with organ interpolations by Bach, Mendelssohn, Reger and Bruckner, followed by Kodály's haunting yet thrilling Missa Brevis" Discover your new favourite composers! Be enchanted by the ravishing Mass in E flat for double choir ‘Cantus Missae’ by Josef Rheinberger, Liechtenstein’s greatest son,… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir Concert – Unsung Heroes

Join us to sing choruses from Haydn's Creation with Conductor Iain Cooper.  The choruses will be rehearsed during the day before a final sing through.  If you have considered joining our choir this may be just the opportunity to dip your toe into the water!  Registration is 9.30am for 10.00am and the day will finish at 16.00hrs.  We… Read More »Come and Sing Day – Haydn’s Creation

Tickets available through the website, Ticketsource, at Taunton Visitor centre (01823 340470) and at the door for this interesting juxtaposition of Early Renaissance ideas contained in the rhythmically complex  Robert Carver Mass Dum Sacrum Mysterium written in about 1510, set against the  Vespers of 1612  by Ludovico Viadana, directed by the distinguished conductor and musicologist, Andrew Parrott

Music on the theme of love, exploring texts from within and without the ‘Song of Songs’. Music from the C16th and C17th including madrigals by Monteverdi. A focus on the C20th and C21st follows, exploring settings by Grieg, Sibelius and Sandstrom.

Sadly we have had to cancel our concert of English Cathedral music for this date. Do visit our website www.amicichoir.org.uk for information about future events.

The Worshipful Mayor of Taunton Deane, Councillor Hazel Prior-Sankey invites you to an exhilarating evening of voice and song to please all musical tastes as these excellent choirs unite in aid of the Mayor's charities - Hestercombe Gardens and Stand Against Violence.

Laurence Blyth is conducting WCS in this much-loved oratorio which, though traditionally performed at Christmas, was originally intended to be sung at Easter. It is now hard to believe that this masterpiece, written in just 24 days, had a cool reception when first performed in London.   Daisy Walford (soprano), Juliet Curnow (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Hawker (tenor)… Read More »Wellington Choral Society – Handel’s ‘Messiah”

Over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend Blackdowns Early Music Projects are promoting two concerts, this is the second second concert, starting at 6pm on Monday May 7th in the Church of St John the Baptist, Wellington TA21 8QY.  BEMP singers under their principal Musical Director, JanJoost van Elburg, will present a programme of music… Read More »Iberian Treasury: Renaissance music from Spain and Portugal