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Past Concert Repertoire

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  1. Spring 2025

    Choir Conductor: Joe Tanner
    Orchestra Conductor: Francesca Peilober-Richardson
    Filmed and edited by Kitty Pinnock Film and Zak Norris
    With thanks to Holy Name Church for kindly allowing us to perform at their venue.

    • Shadowland: from The Lion King The Musical — Music by Hans Zimmer, Lebo M, Mark Mancina; Soloists: Hannah Lucy Craven, Zandile-Monique Adedipe-Ncube, Eva Nikolova
    • Shenandoah — Trad. arr. James Erb; Soloists: Gabrielle Kaufman, Lucy Miller, Jiayi Che, Ethan Maggs, Evan Hopkin
    • Gaelic Song of the Boatman — Trad. arr. Philip Lawson; Soloists: Awan Ebrahimi, Laura Jarvis, Ashley Ng
    • Surge Illuminare — Michael John Trotta
    • Mack The Knife — Kurt Weill; arr. Russ Robinson; Soloists: Sviatoslav Cherniak, Jodie Glasgow
    • Can-Can: from Orpheus in the Underworld — Jacques Offenbach; arr. Steven Klaus
    • Sleeping Beauty Waltz No. 5 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • Tico Tico No Fubá — Zequinha de Abreu
    • James Bond Medley — Monty Norman; arr. Victor Lopez
    • Danzón No. 2 — Arturo Márquez; Soloists: Evelyn Fletcher Bird, Edward Miller, Josh Porter
    • Pirates of the Caribbean — Klaus Badelt; arr. Ted Ricketts
    • The Awakening — Joseph Martin

    Download the programme here. Recordings coming soon!

  2. Winter 2024 - 14th December

    Choir Conductor: Joe Tanner
    Orchestra Conductor: Francesca Peilober-Richardson
    Filmed and edited by Bosworth Film Production
    Audio recorded by Kitty Pinnock Film
    With thanks to Holy Name Church for kindly allowing us to perform at their venue.

    • Frode Fjellheim: Vuelie
    • John Rutter: Gaelic Blessing
    • Mykola Leontovych: Carol of the Bells
    • Ola Gjeilo: Ave Generosa
    • Frank Churchill: Some Day My Prince Will Come
    • Stephen Schwartz: No One Mourns The Wicked
    • Resurgence
    • Leon Jessel: Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
    • Henry Mancini: Pink Panther
    • Johann Strauss II: Unter Donner Und Blitz
    • A Most Wonderful Christmas
    • Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 5
    • John Powell: How To Train Your Dragon
    • Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride

    Download the programme here. And watch us on Youtube here!

  3. Spring 2024

    Choir Conductor: Joe Tanner
    Orchestra Conductors: Francesca Peilober-Richardson, Peter Bloxidge

    • Traditional: The Minstrel Boy
    • Carl Kennedy: Ebb Tide
    • Traditional: Deep River
    • Traditional: Canticle of the Turning
    • Legend
    • Alan Menken: The Bells of Notre Dame
    • Claude-Michel Schönberg: Les Misérables
    • Elgar: Nimrod (from "Enigma" Variations)
    • Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the Caribbean
    • Alan Menken: Beauty and the Beast
    • Concerto in A Major
    • Howard Shore: Lord of the Rings
    • Joe Hisaishi: Mother's Broom (from Kiki's Delivery Service)
  4. Winter 2023

    Choir Conductor: Joe Tanner
    Orchestra Conductors: Francesca Peilober-Richardson, Peter Bloxidge

    • Traditional: Jul, jul, strålande jul
    • Thomas Weelkes: The Nightingale
    • Traditional: Here We Come A-Caroling
    • Traditional: Gaudete
    • Alexandre Desplat: My Love is Always Here
    • Ola Gjeilo: Across the Vast, Eternal Sky
    • William Walton: Spitfire Prelude
    • Michael Giacchino: 'Up' Suite
    • Albert Hague: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    • Ennio Morricone: Gabriel's Oboe
    • Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Music
    • Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival
  5. Spring 2022

    Choir Conductor: Joe Tanner
    Orchestra Conductors: Francesca Peilober-Richardson, Peter Bloxidge

    • Disney: You Can Fly (from Peter Pan)
    • James Taylor: That Lonesome Road
    • Mozart: Ave Verum
    • Thomas Morley: Now is the Month of Maying
    • Gerald Finzi: My Spirit Sang All Day
    • Christopher Tin: Sogno di Volare (from Civilization VI)
    • Resurgences
    • John Kander: Chicago
    • Joe Hisaishi: My Neighbour Totoro Suite
    • Josef Strauss: Feuerfest!
    • Alan Menken: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    • Stravinsky: Berceuse & Finale from "The Firebird Suite"
    • Stephen Schwartz: The Prince of Egypt
  6. Winter 2022

    Choir Conductor: Joe Tanner
    Orchestra Conductors: Francesca Peilober-Richardson, Peter Bloxidge

    • Karl Jenkins: Adiemus
    • Danny Elfman (arr. Mac Huff): Alice's Theme
    • Oliver Tarney: The Wise Men and the Star
    • Traditional (arr. Audrey Snyder): Sing We Now of Christmas
    • Trad. Scottish (arr. Jonathan Quick): Loch Lomond
    • Adolphe Adam (arr. John Rutter): O Holy Night
    • Jerome Moross: The Big Country
    • Leonard Bernstein (arr. Jack Mason): West Side Story
    • Edvard Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
    • Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
    • James Newton Howard (arr. Patrick Roszell): Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    • Howard Blake (arr. Peter Bloxidge): Themes from The Snowman
    • Kristen Anderson-Lopez (arr. Bob Krogstad): Music from Frozen
  7. Winter 2021

    Choir Conductors: Francesca Peilober-Richardson
    Orchestra Conductors: Peter Bloxidge

    • Ola Gjeilo: Northern Lights
    • Ola Gjeilo: The Rose
    • Traditional (arr. John Rutter): Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
    • Billy Joel (arr. Bob Chilcott): And So it Goes
    • 18th-century Latin Hymn (arr. Michael John Trotta): Veni, Veni Emmanuel
    • Elmer Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven
    • Hector Berlioz: March to the Scaffold
    • Antonín Dvořák: The Wild Dove
    • Ted Ricketts: Satchmo! (A Tribute to Louis Armstrong)
    • John Powell (arr. Sean O'Loughlin): How to Train Your Dragon
    • Robert Sheldon: Appalachian Morning
    • Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride
    • Various (arr. James Maunders): Once in Royal David's City, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful
    • Robert Sheldon: A Most Wonderful Christmas
  8. Winter 2019

    Choir Conductors: Sing Liem, Sabrina Ghadaouia
    Orchestra Conductors: Francesca Peilober-Richardson, Peter Bloxidge

    • Charlie Chaplin: Smile
    • Charles Trenet: Beyond the Sea
    • George David Weiss & Bob Thiele: What a Wonderful World
    • Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me
    • Anton Bruckner: Locus Iste
    • Anton Bruckner: Os Justi
    • John Williams and Leslie Bricusse: Somewhere in my Memory
    • Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus Overture
    • P. I. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite (Waltz of the Flowers & Trepak)
    • P. I. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite (Dance of The Little Swans & Mazurka)
    • Arr. Robert Sheldon: A Most Wonderful Christmas
    • John Powell: How to Train Your Dragon
    • Various-Arr. James Maunders: Christmas Carols

    Download the programme here.

  9. Spring 2019 - CAOS AT THE MOVIES 3

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite, mvt. III "Folk Songs from Somerset"
    • Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
    • Justin Hurwitz: La La Land Medley
    • Harold Arlen: Over The Rainbow
    • Various: Disney Medley
    • John Williams: The Throne Room & End Titles from Star Wars
    • Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    • Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West (with choir)
    • Alan Silvestri: Back to the Future
    • Alan Menken: Beauty and the Beast
    • Howard Shore: May It Be & Extended Suite from The Lord of the Rings (with choir)
  10. December 2018

    • Brahms: Tragic Overture
    • Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (selections)
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt (selections)
  11. Spring 2018 - 30TH ANNIVERSARY

    • Mahler: Symphony no. 1
    • Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
    • Fauré: Requiem (with chamber orchestra)
  12. December 2017

    • Bernstein: Candide overture
    • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2 (soloist: Kitty Byrne)
    • Khatchaturian: Masquerade suite
  13. Spring 2017

    • Beethoven: Egmont overture
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances
    • Mozart: Requiem (with orchestra)
  14. December 2016

    • Schubert: Rosamunde overture
    • Copland: Rodeo
    • Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
    • Trad. arr. Donald Moore: Peace Like a River
    • J. S. Bach: Gloria sei dir gesungen
    • Trad. arr. Ben Parry: The Linden Tree Carol
    • Rutter: Christmas Lullaby
    • Trad. arr. Ben Parry: Child of God
    • Ben Parry: Rapping Paper
    • Trad. arr. Ben Parry: Gaudete
    • Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo
    • Trad. arr. Gwyn Arch: Sleep Away, My Gentle Child
    • Howard Goodall: Just a Tale
    • Trad. arr. Ben Parry: Rise Up, Shepherd
    • Rutter: Nativity Carol
  15. Spring 2016 - CAOS AT THE MOVIES 2

    • John Williams: Jurassic Park
    • John Williams: Superman
    • Bernstein: On the Waterfront
    • John Barry: suite from the James Bond films
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto no. 2 (soloist: Matt Lam)
  16. December 2015

    • Verdi: La Forza del Destino overture
    • Sibelius: En Saga
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (selections)
  17. Spring 2015

    Choir Conductor: Sarah Chan
    Orchestra Conductor: Dan James
    Choir Accompanist: Matt Lam
    Orchestra Leader: Lisa Thomas
    Recording courtesy of Sarah Hannaway

    • Handel: Zadok the Priest
    • Rutter: All Things Bright and Beautiful
    • Rutter: For the Beauty of the Earth
    • Vaughan Williams: Springtime of the Year
    • Trad. arr. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
    • Elgar: Oh Happy Eyes
    • Elgar: My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land
    • Stanford: Justorum animae
    • Stanford: Beati quorum
    • Tallis: If Ye Love Me
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony - 1. Lento - Allegro
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony - 2. Lento (viola solo: Graham Heaven)
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony - 3. Scherzo Nocturne
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony - 4. Andante con moto
    Listen to our recordings here!
  18. December 2014

    • Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses
    • Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
    • Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé
    • Tavener: The Lamb
    • Trad. arr. Vaughan Williams: The Truth from Above
    • Holst: Lullay My Liking
    • Holst: Winter and the Birds
    • J. S. Bach: O Jesulein Süß (sung in English as "O Little One Sweet")
    • J. S. Bach: Wachet auf
    • William Matthias: Sir Christemas
  19. Spring 2014

    • Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
    • Schubert: Symphony no. 8 "Unfinished"
    • Schubert: Mass in G
    • Fauré: Pavane (choral version, with chamber orchestra)
  20. December 2013

    • Verdi: Sicilian Vespers overture
    • Holst: The Perfect Fool
    • Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
    • Verdi: Chorus of Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco (with choir)
  21. Spring 2013

    • Brahms: Symphony no. 2
    • Bruckner: 4 motets (Locus iste, Vexilla regis, Os justi, Ecce sacerdos)
    • J. S. Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden
  22. December 2012

    • E T A Hoffmann: Undine overture
    • Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
    • Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  23. Spring 2012 - CAOS AT THE MOVIES 1

    • Elmer Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven
    • Miklós Rózsa: Parade of the Chariots from Ben Hur
    • Hans Zimmer: Gladiator
    • Korngold: The Sea Hawk
    • John Williams: Flying Theme from ET
    • Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia
    • John Williams: Raiders' March
  24. December 2011

    • Dvořák: In Nature's Realm
    • Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge (soloist: Shahnavaz Mehta)
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (selections)
  25. Spring 2011

    • Orff: Carmina Burana (version for choir, 2 pianos & percussion)
    • Arnold: Cornish Dances
    • Sibelius: Karelia Suite
    • Howard Shore: suite from The Fellowship of the Ring
  26. December 2010

    • Holst: The Planets
  27. Spring 2010

    • Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (soloist: Jack Tierney)
    • Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1
  28. December 2009

    • Tchaikovsky: Cappriccio Italien
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concerto no. 2 (soloist: Will Cheung)
    • Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov (with choir)
  29. Spring 2009

    • Arnold: Peterloo overture
    • Jack Tierney: new composition (world premiere)
    • Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (soloist: Shahnavaz Mehta)
  30. December 2008

    • Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla overture
    • Elgar: Enigma Variations
  31. Spring 2008

    • Rossini: The Italian Girl in Algiers overture
    • Vaughan Williams: Folksong Suite
    • Bizet: L'Arlésienne (selections)
  32. December 2007

    • Beethoven: Leonora Overture no. 2
    • Will Ward: new composition (world premiere)
    • Verdi: Finale Act 2 from Aïda (with choir and brass band)
  33. Spring 2007

    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
  34. December 2006

    • Mozart: The Magic Flute overture
    • Arnold: English Dances suite no. 2
    • Sibelius: Finlandia (with choir)
  35. Spring 2006

    • James Merritt: new composition (world premiere)
    • Rob Heathcote: new composition (world premiere)
    • Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 "New World"
    Listen to our recordings here!
  36. December 2005

    • Verdi: Nabucco overture
    • Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March
    • Bizet: Carmen suite no. 1
  37. Spring 2005

    • Borodin: Prince Igor overture
    • Schubert: Entr'acte from Rosamunde
    • Johann Strauss: Emperor Waltz
  38. December 2004

    • Rossini: The Thieving Magpie overture
    • Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain
    • Sibelius: Karelia Suite
    Listen to our recordings here!