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PAST CONCERTS since 1997
12 April 1997 Rossini
Rutter
Petite Messe Solonelle
Magnificat
14 June 1997 Dvorak
Dvorak
Bernstein
Te Deum
New World Symphony
Chichester Psalms
8 November 1997
.

Mendelssohn
.o

Elijah
in Thaxted Parish Church

14 March 1998 Bruckner
Górecki
Dvorák
Bruckner
Sacred Choruses
Totus Tuus
Serenade in D minor for woodwind
Mass no. 2 in E minor
13 June 1998 Mozart
Mozart
Handel
Handel
Handel
Coronation Mass in C
Horn Concerto No. 4
Music for Royal Fireworks
Zadok the Priest
The King Shall Rejoice
21 November 1998 Beethoven
Beethoven
Consecration of the House
Missa Solemnis

27 February 1999

A Night at the Opera Works by Rossini, Donnizetti, Bizet, Delibes, Sullivan, Borodin, Wagner, Purcell, Handel, Mozart and Verdi
12 June 1999 English Music for a Summer Evening Vaughan Williams: G minor Mass
and works by Elgar, Finzi, Holst, Bridge, Head, Purcell, Ireland, Britten and Stanford
13 November 1999 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
4 March 2000 Rimsky Korsakov
Tate
Berlioz
Capriccio Espagnole
Saxophone Concerto
Te Deum
10 June 2000 Rutter
Schütz
Requiem
Deutsches Magnificat
11 November 2000 Haydn The Creation
7 April 2001

Fauré
Mozart
.

Requiem
Mass in C minor (K427)
in King's College Chapel, Cambridge
16 June 2001 Shakespeare Songs Including Vaughan Williams: Shakespeare Songs and Serenade to Music
and works by Brahms, John Rutter and Robert Washburn.
10 November 2001 Brahms
Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Ein Deutsches Requiem
09 March 2002 Pathways in Time Samba Stomp arr. Tom Reavey
Dives and Lazarus: Vaughan Williams
Two African Songs: arr. Stephen Hatfield
Night in the Lap of Morning: Janet Wheeler
Two Songs from Hamba Lulu: arr. Michael Brewer
Pathways in Time: James Beston

15 June 2002

 

Singing in the Summer
In celebration of the Queen's Jubilee

 

Monteverdi: Beatus Vir
J.S. Bach:: Jesu meine Freude
Corelli: Sonata da Chiesa No.7
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Tippett: Five Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time'
Gershwin: Summertime
Parry: I was glad
Arne: Rule Britannia

09 November 2002 J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
Handel
Magnificat in D
Brandenburg Concerto No.3
Dixit Dominus
22 March 2003 Barber
Bernstein
Wheeler
Rutter
Agnus Dei
Chichester Psalms
Four Spirituals
Feel the Spirit
14 June 2003 Songs and Chansons English and French choral music form the Renaissance and Romantic eras
including Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
8 November 2003 Handel Messiah
27 March 2004 Wheeler
Rutter
Sea Changes (First Performance)
Mass of the Children
19 June 2004

Singing in the Summer

Choral classics from five centuries including
Allegri: Miserere
Gibbons: O clap your hands
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Pärt: The Beatitudes
Tavener: Funeral Ikos
Wheeler: Alleluia I heard a voice
13 November 2004 Bach Mass in B minor
19 March 2005

Mozart

Durufle

Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K.339
Exultate Jubilate K.165
Requiem Op. 9
Four Motets Op. 10

11 & 18 June 2005 Singing on Track Warburton/Wheeler: Train in the Rain
12 November 2005

Haydn
Wheeler

Nelson Mass
Sea Changes
in King's College Chapel, Cambridge

27 November 2005 Mozart
Haydn
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K.339
Nelson Mass
in St. Peter's Church, Fordham
18 March 2006 The Glory of Venice Music by Adrea & Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, their contemporaries and Schutz
17 June 2006 Through Gardens of Delight Wide variety of pieces from madrigals to musicals.
11 & 25 November 2006

Finzi
Brahms
Brahms

Lo, the full, final sacrifice.
Fest- und Gedenkspruche.
German Requiem, Opus 45.

17 March 2007 Wingbeats In collaboration with the RSPB.
16 June 2007

Vaughan Williams
Kodály

Mass in G minor
Missa Brevis
30 June 2007 Singing at Fordham Selection of recently performed pieces.
10 November 2007 Beethoven Missa Solemnis

The Spirit of Christmas

Early December

Each year the Society combines with
local schools to present concerts of seasonal music.

There is a matinee concert as well as one in the evening

 

The SWCS Annual Carol Competition winners are announced
at the concerts
and prizes awarded.

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 Established 1883
Hon. Patron - John Rutter CBE, D.Mus (Lambeth), MA.Mus.B.(Cantab)