In our Summer 2022 concert in Wells (postponed from 2020 due to COVID), we will perform Mozart’s Mass in C minor, a piece that many critics regard as Mozart's masterpiece in the field of religious composition, and which has a breadth of scale and a grandeur that recalls the great baroque choral masterpieces of Bach… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir – Mozart Mass in C minor
Join us for this uplifting concert in celebration of Advent! The renowned organist Shean Bowers and Jean Kelly, one of the UK’s most gifted professional harpists, perform solos as well as accompanying the choir in this concert of beautiful seasonal music., an enchanting mix of favourite melodies from across the centuries. From Renaissance polyphony by… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir Christmas Concert – Tidings of Great Joy
Somerset Chamber Choir Richard Laing – Conductor Southern Sinfonia Simon Hogan – Organ & Celestra Katie Trethewey - Soprano Angus McPhee - Baritone Programme Details Requiem – Gabriel Fauré Organ Concerto – Francis Poulenc Salve Regina – Arvo Pärt Messe Breve- Yves Castagnet O Sacrum Convivium – Olivier Messiaen Jerusalem – Charles Gounod
Winter Concert with Somerset Chamber ChoirWe are thrilled that our Patron, Dame Emma Kirkby, will join us for this concert, to perform a small selection of works from the golden age of English Lute Song. Programme to include: BYRD Four-Part Mass TALLIS Lamentations of Jeremiah I DOWLAND Lute Songs Emma Kirkby soprano Andrea Brown conductor… Read More »Winter Concert entitled The Private Music
SOUND THE TRUMPET! Be sure not to miss this celebration of the choir’s foundation in 1984. Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part masterpiece will form the centrepiece of this very special concert which will also include two of the very finest English and German works of the Baroque era. Expect musical fireworks from the trumpets and drums so… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir’s 40th Anniversary Concert
To Include J S Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D minor Widor - Toccata (From 5th Symphony)
Piano Recital Schubert - Four Impromptus (D899) Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue Scriabin - Sonate-Fantasie (Op 19) Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (18th Variation) Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 We are delighted that Anita D’Attellis, the choir’s principal accompanist, will give the second concert in our Amicus Recital Series. This series… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir Amicus Piano Recital by Anita D’Attellis
Conductor Andrea Brown with Divertimento String Quartet and Baritone Thomas Humphreys. Beautiful works from Nordic lands - Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. Set in the atmospheric chapel of King's College Taunton this concert promises an unforgettable experience of Nordic gems reminiscent of the etherial beauty of the Aurora Borealis and polar landscapes. Programme Details… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir Concert – Nordic Lights
Let Brass & Voices Resound! Gloria - John Rutter "Son of God" Mass - James Whitbourn Summae Trinitati - James MacMillan Ave Regina - Cecilia McDowall Ubi Caritas - Paul Mealor God is gone up - Gerald Finzi Featuring Somerset Chamber Choir - Music Director Andrea Brown Bones Apart & Friends Rachael Parvin - Soprano… Read More »Somerset Chamber Choir Summer Concert – Summer Gold
The Line of Beauty Celebrating Palestrina and his impact on 500 years of choral composition GP Palestrina - Missa Papa Marcelli Thomas Tallis - Loquebantur Variis Linguis Giacomo Carissimi - Plorate filii Israel Antonio Caldara - Crucifixus a 16 voci Johannes Brahms - Geistliches Lied Ola Gjeilo - Ubi Caritas Arvo Part - The Deer's… Read More »Celebrating Palestrina
