Saturday, 18th November 2023, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Banbury
Music for Remembrance and Peace
Conductor: Benedict Goodall
Jenkins – The Armed Man Barber – Adagio for Strings Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Jenkins’ The Armed Man and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms both reach thematically and structurally across communities and languages: Bernstein through his combination of traditional Hebrew psalms with a Christian musical setting, and Jenkins by embracing texts and musical idioms from many cultures.
A small number of people attending the concert were unable to buy a copy of the programme. Therefore, we are making it available as a free download.
Saturday, 17th June 2023, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Benedict Goodall
“Summer is icumen in” – Part Songs and Madrigals
“And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.” (Christopher Marlowe)
Perfect entertainment for a summer evening, with traditional folk songs, delightful madrigals and well known part-songs.
Including works by Elgar, Mozart, Bruckner and Morley.
Sunday, 26th March, 2023, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Banbury
Conductor: Benedict Goodall
Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem
Unique amongst Requiems, Brahms’ masterpiece is a humane and consoling work intended to bring comfort to the living rather than to plead for the souls of the dead. The text, sung in German, is drawn from the Lutheran Bible and brought to intense dramatic life by one of the greatest choral composers.
2022
Saturday, 17th December 2022, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Benedict Goodall
Family Christmas Concert
Charlie Baigent (baritone), Rebecca Nicholas (cello) & Bernard West (organ)
A concert of seasonal carols featuring the fun and exciting Christmas Mass by Ronald Corp, setting the words of the Latin Mass to the tunes of well-known Christmas carols; and Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams whose 150th anniversary we are celebrating this year.
Saturday, 11th June 2022, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Benedict Goodall
“Pomp and Pimms”: Songs from the Coronation
A week after the official Platinum Jubilee celebrations, The Chipping Norton Choral Society performed a programme inspired by the music played at the Coronation in June 1953.
Saturday, 2nd April 2022, 7:30 pm St. Peter & St. Paul’s Church, Deddington
Conductor: Benedict Goodall with Adderbury Ensemble
Soloists: Michael Gibson (tenor) & James Berry (baritone)
Puccini – Messa di Gloria Verdi – Stabat Mater
Unashamedly operatic and clearly influenced by his idol Verdi, the Messa di Gloria (more correctly, Messa a quattro voci) was written as a graduation piece when Puccini was only eighteen, shortly after Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle and Verdi’s Requiem, and brings the same sense of heightened drama, vitality, musical dexterity and sheer exuberance to the Latin mass.
2021
Saturday, 18th December 2021, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten – Saint Nicolas Excerpts from Handel – Messiah
Saturday, 14th August 2021, 7:30 pm St. Peter & St. Paul’s Church, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Anne Page (harmonium) & Stewart Taylor (piano)
Gioachino Rossini — Petite Messe Solennelle
2019
Saturday, 21st December 2019, 7:00 pm St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Family Christmas Concert: Carols & Chilcott
Sunday, 3rd November 2019, 5:30 pm Cheltenham Town Hall
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra & North Cotswold Chamber Choir
William Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast James MacMillan – Cantos Sagrados
Saturday, 6th April 2019, 7:30 pm Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Fanshawe – African Sanctus
2018
Saturday, 15th December 2018, 7:30 pm St. Mary’s Church, Banbury
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Soloists: Carris Jones (mezzo-soprano) & James Berry (baritone)
Elgar – The Music Makers Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem
Saturday, 16th June 2018 Chipping Norton Secondary School & St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Community Sing Day: Vivaldi – Gloria Bob Chilcott – The Voyage
Saturday, 12th May 2018 St. Mary’s Church, Witney
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Baroque Orchestra Oxybaroxy
Vivaldi – Gloria George Frideric Handel – O Praise the Lord with One Consent (Chandos Anthem No. 9) Verdi – Pater Noster Stanford – Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
2017
Saturday, 9th December 2017 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Cotswold Baroque Players
Charlotte Beament (1st soprano), Rebecca Outram (2nd soprano), William Purefoy (counter tenor) & Robert Rice (bass)
J.S. Bach – Mass in B Minor
2016
Saturday, 17th December 2016 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Cotswold Baroque Players
Charlotte Beament (soprano), Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano), Guy Cutting (tenor) & Robert Rice (bass)
Haydn – Nelson Mass (Mass in D Minor) Mozart – C Minor Mass
Sunday, 26th June 2016 All Saints’ Church, Churchill
Conductor: Bernard West
Tim Wakerill (organ) & Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano)
César Franck – Psalm 150 J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541 Hector Berlioz – Premiers transports que nul n’oublie Felix Mendelssohn – Grant us Thy Peace, Nachtlied, Drei geistliche Lieder, Op 96 Hanny Hensel – Frühling J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
Saturday, 7th May 2016 Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Catherine White (harp), Nathan Cole (percussion), Bernard West (piano and organ), Martyn Lane (piano) & Matthew Ernst (treble)
Folk Songs from the British Isles – Braes o’Yarrow, Bobbin John & The Road to Ford Cecilia McDowall – A Fancy of Folksongs Trad. – Londonderry Air Bob Chilcott – Extracts from Songs and Cries of London Town Francis Poulenc – Piano Sonata for Four Hands Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
2015
Saturday, 5th December 2015 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Julie Cooper (soprano), William Purefoy (alto), Matthew Minter (tenor), Ben Bevan (bass) & The Cotswold Baroque Players – lead by Catherine Weiss
George Frideric Handel – Messiah
2014
Saturday, 21st June 2014 All Saints’ Church, Churchill
Conductor: Bernard West
Cynthia Hall (organ), Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano), Ben Phillips (countertenor) & Martin Davies (baritone)
Stanford – various works including Te Deum Laudamus, Nunc Dimittis and Psalm 150 Purcell – Come, ye sons of art
Saturday, 10th May 2014 Methodist Church, High Street, Witney
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Bernard West (organ) and Oxybaroxy, Esther Brazil (soprano), Rachel O’Malley (alto), Tom Dyer (tenor) & David le Provost (bass)
Vivaldi – Kyrie George Frideric Handel – Let thy hand be strengthened George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest D’Astorga – Stabat Mater J.S. Bach – Jesu Joy
2013
Saturday, 7th December 2013 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Rebecca Outram (soprano), Greg Tassell (tenor) & Robert Rice (baritone)
Joseph Haydn – Creation
Saturday, 22nd June 2013 St. Mary’s Church, Charlbury
Conductor: Bernard West
David Lee (tenor), David Le Prevost (baritone) & James Brown (organ)
Maunder – Olivet to Calvary
Saturday, 18th May 2013 Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Bernard West (piano) & Marion Ackrill (flute)
Dreams of the Summer Night – an evening of music by English composers, featuring: Arthur Bliss – Pastoral Hubert Parry – An English Suite for Strings Colin Touchin – Adlestrop
2012
Saturday, 8th December 2012 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Bernard West with The Cotswold Baroque Players
Mozart – Requiem Haydn – Requiem in C minor
Saturday, 23rd June 2012 All Saints’ Church, Churchill
Conductor: Bernard West
Pomp & Pimms: Coronation Music
Saturday, 26th May 2012 Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Oxfordshire County Percussion Ensemble & Cotswold Children’s Choir
Bernard West & Stewart Taylor (piano)
Orff – Carmina Burana
2011
Saturday, 3rd December 2011 St. Mary’s Church, Banbury
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Verdi – Requiem
Saturday, 25th June 2011 All Saints’ Church, Churchill
Conductor: Bernard West
Fauré & Fizz: Fauré – Requiem
Saturday, 16th April 2011 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cotswold Baroque Players
J.S. Bach – St. John Passion
2010
Saturday, 4th December 2010 St. Mary’s Church, Banbury
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Mendelssohn – Elijah
Saturday, 12th June 2010 Charlbury Church
Conductor: Bernard West
Vivaldi and Vino: Beatus Vir Gloria Ostro Picta
Saturday, 8th May 2010 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Deddington
Conductor: Peter Hunt with Acer Saccharum (Bassoon Quartet)
Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb Rutter – Gloria
2009
Saturday, 5th December 2009 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem
Saturday, 27th June 2009 All Saints’ Church, Churchill
Conductor: Bernard West
Edward Tambling (organ scholar-elect, Westminster Cathedral)
Purcell and Pimms: Funeral Sentences Thy word is a Lantern O Sing unto the Lord Rejoice in the Lord Always
Saturday, 16th May 2009 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Haydn – Nelson Mass (Missa in Augustiis) Haydn – Te Deum (for the Empress Maria Therese) Haydn – Symphony No. 6 in D ‘Le Matin’
2008
Saturday, 13th December 2008 St. Peter’s Church, Hook Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cotswold Baroque Players
Candlelight Concert: Buxtehude – Magnificat Monteverdi – Beatus Vir Pergolesi – Magnificat Schutz – Christmas Story
Saturday, 17th May 2008 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with the Adderbury Ensemble
Puccini – Messa di Gloria Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
2007
Saturday, 1st December 2007 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt with The Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace Schubert – Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’
Saturday, 16th June 2007 St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Bernard West (piano)
Bubbles and Betjeman: David Pope – From Here to Burgess Hill: Setting of Seven Poems by John Betjeman Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands
Saturday, 31st March 2007 Witney Methodist Church
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Bernard West (organ)
An Evening of French Music: Maurice Duruflé – Requiem and Motets Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
2006
Saturday, 16th December 2006 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Handel – Messiah
Saturday, 10th June 2006 All Saints’ Church, Churchill
Conductor: Peter Hunt
An Evening of Musical Entertainment and Summer Refreshment: Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
Saturday, 1st April 2006 St. Peter’s Church, Hook Norton
Conductor: Peter Hunt
Three Oxbridge Music Professors: Sir Charles Stanford – Three Motets Op. 38 Sir Hubert Parry – selection of Songs of Farewell Sir John Stainer – The Crucifixion
2005
Saturday, 10th December 2005 St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton
Christmastide Concert: An evening of carols, readings and seasonal songs for the choir and family audience
Looking back further… (thanks to Roger Stein for the research)
June 2005
Tippett – A Child of Our Time
2004
December 2004
Vivaldi – Gloria Haydn – Little Organ Mass Hummel – Mass in Bb
June 2004
Summer Concert: ForeverEngland! Rutter – The Reluctant Dragon
2003
December 2003
J.S. Bach – Sleepers Wake Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols Mathias – Ave Rex
May 2003
Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle
2002
December 2002
J.S. Bach – Christmas Oratorio
May 2002
Brahms – Songs of Love Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands
2001
December 2001
Charpentier – Messe de Minuit Fauré – Requiem
May 2001
Sullivan – Trial by Jury;and lighter pieces
February 2001
J.S. Bach – St. Matthew Passion
2000
March 2000
Rutter – Requiem Andrew Carter – Benedicite
1999
December 1999
Handel – Messiah
May 1999
Mozart – Requiem and Great Mass in C Minor (conducted by Shauni)
1998
December 1998
Britten – Ceremony of Carols
March 1998
Monteverdi – Vespers
1997
November 1997
Dvorák – Mass in D Kodály – Missa Brevis (Peter’s first concert)
July 1997
Music for a Summer Evening (conducted by Shauni)
March 1997
Handel – Israel in Egypt (Stewart Taylor’s final concert)
1996
November 1996
Fauré – Requiem (from scratch)
June 1996
Purcell – The Fairy Queen
1995
November 1995
Haydn – St. Nicolas Mass Mozart – Piano Concerto in F K459 (Michael Liddell, soloist) Britten – St. Nicolas
March 1995
Mendelssohn – Elijah
1994
November 1994
Music for Choir and Organ: Parry – I was Glad Gardiner – Evening Hymn Parry – Blest Pair of Sirens Durufle – Requiem
Plus organ solos performed by Thomas Trotter
June 1994
Handel – Chandos Anthem No 11 “Let God Arise” and Acis and Galatea
March 1994
J.S. Bach – Mass in B minor
1993
Summer 1993
Pergolesi – Magnificat Schubert – Mass in G
March 1993
Purcell – Rejoice in the Lord Alway J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Handel – Dixit Dominus
1992
November 1992
Brahms – A German Requiem
June 1992
German – Merrie England
April 1992
J.S. Bach – St. John Passion
1991
November 1991
Mozart – Solemn Vespers and Mass in C
June 1991
Purcell – Bell Anthem, Come ye sons of art and King Arthur