Recordings
Spring Concert 2015
Details
This special concert marked the farewell performance of Sarah Chan, who served as CAOS's choir conductor from 2006 to 2015. The programme celebrated English music (with an honorary English composer, Handel) and featured the choir performing a selection of shorter works, concluding with Tallis's "If Ye Love Me" - a personal favourite of Sarah's chosen as her farewell piece.
The centrepiece was Vaughan Williams's monumental "A London Symphony" - a work that holds special significance for CAOS, as Vaughan Williams himself composed the CAOS Anthem. The concert was recorded at St. Paul's church in Withington, whose distinctive acoustic character is particularly noticeable in the orchestral recordings.
Performers:
Choir Conductor: Sarah Chan
Orchestra Conductor: Dan James
Choir Accompanist: Matt Lam
Orchestra Leader: Lisa Thomas
Recording courtesy of Sarah Hannaway
Spring Concert 2006
Christmas Concert 2004
Past Concert Repertoire
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Winter 2024
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- 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
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Spring 2024
- 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)
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Winter 2023
- 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
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Spring 2022
- 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
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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)
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December 2018
- Brahms: Tragic Overture
- Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (selections)
- Grieg: Peer Gynt (selections)
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Spring 2018 - 30TH ANNIVERSARY
- Mahler: Symphony no. 1
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December 2017
- Bernstein: Candide overture
- Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2 (soloist: Kitty Byrne)
- Khatchaturian: Masquerade suite
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Spring 2017
- Beethoven: Egmont overture
- Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
- Brahms: Hungarian Dances
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December 2016
- Schubert: Rosamunde overture
- Copland: Rodeo
- Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
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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)
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December 2015
- Verdi: La Forza del Destino overture
- Sibelius: En Saga
- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (selections)
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Spring 2015
- Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
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December 2014
- Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses
- Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
- Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé
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Spring 2014
- Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
- Schubert: Symphony no. 8 "Unfinished"
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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)
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Spring 2013
- Brahms: Symphony no. 2
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December 2012
- E T A Hoffmann: Undine overture
- Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
- Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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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
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December 2011
- Dvořák: In Nature's Realm
- Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge (soloist: Shahnavaz Mehta)
- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (selections)
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Spring 2011
- Arnold: Cornish Dances
- Sibelius: Karelia Suite
- Howard Shore: suite from The Fellowship of the Ring
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December 2010
- Holst: The Planets
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Spring 2010
- Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (soloist: Jack Tierney)
- Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1
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December 2009
- Tchaikovsky: Cappriccio Italien
- Shostakovich: Piano Concerto no. 2 (soloist: Will Cheung)
- Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov (with choir)
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Spring 2009
- Arnold: Peterloo overture
- Jack Tierney: new composition (world premiere)
- Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (soloist: Shahnavaz Mehta)
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December 2008
- Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla overture
- Elgar: Enigma Variations
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Spring 2008
- Rossini: The Italian Girl in Algiers overture
- Vaughan Williams: Folksong Suite
- Bizet: L'Arlésienne (selections)
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December 2007
- Beethoven: Leonora Overture no. 2
- Will Ward: new composition (world premiere)
- Verdi: Finale Act 2 from Aïda (with choir and brass band)
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Spring 2007
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
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December 2006
- Mozart: The Magic Flute overture
- Arnold: English Dances suite no. 2
- Sibelius: Finlandia (with choir)
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Spring 2006
- James Merritt: new composition (world premiere)
- Rob Heathcote: new composition (world premiere)
- Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 "New World"
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December 2005
- Verdi: Nabucco overture
- Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March
- Bizet: Carmen suite no. 1
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Spring 2005
- Borodin: Prince Igor overture
- Schubert: Entr'acte from Rosamunde
- Johann Strauss: Emperor Waltz
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December 2004
- Rossini: The Thieving Magpie overture
- Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain
- Sibelius: Karelia Suite