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2008

Friday, 1st February 2008, 7.30pm in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square Fauré Requiem
Saturday, 26th January 2008, 7.30pm in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge poster Elgar - Sea Pictures
Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens, and
Will Todd - Midwinter

with the Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarah Blood, Mark Oldfield and Olivia Ray

 

2007

Sunday, 9th December 2007, 8.15pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge posterMusic for Advent and Christmas, including carols for audience participation
Sunday, 11th November 2007, 8pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge poster Remembrance concert, including

Victoria - Missa pro Victoria
Bantock - A Pageant of Human Life, and
motets by Tavener and Gorecki

featuring the trebles of Jesus College, Cambridge

Saturday, 14th July 2007, 7.30pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge posterMusic for a Summer's Evening, including Britten's Five flower songs and music by Grainger, Grieg and Delius
Saturday, 23rd June 2007, 6.15pm in Elmdon Church A programme of secular music for summer.
Saturday, 31st March 2007, 7.30pm in St. John's College, Cambridge poster J.S. Bach - B minor Mass

with the Cambridge Baroque Camerata and soloists including James Bowman

Saturday, 27th January 2007, 8.00pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge posterA candlelit concert for a winter's evening, including works by Charpentier and Purcell
 

2006

Sunday, 10th December 2006, 8.15pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge Music for Advent and Christmas
Sunday, 12th November 2006, 8.00pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge poster Reflections of Remembrance including Parry's Songs of Farewell and music by Pizzetti and Tomkins
Saturday, 9th September 2006, 7.30pm at St. Mary's Church, Buckden A concert as part of the Flower Festival 'HiddenTreasures'. For more information telephone 01480 811608 or email events@stmarysbuckden.org.uk.
Saturday, 8th July 2006, 7.30pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge poster Music for a Summer's Evening

Bach - Singet dem Herrn
English partsongs
Brahms - partsongs
Sibelius - Rakastava
Barber - songs

Interval strawberries and wine, served on the banks of the Cam.

Saturday, 18th March 2006, 7:30pm in St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge posterFauré - Requiem
Vaughan Williams - Five mystical songs
Britten - Te Deum in C
Walton - The Twelve
Friday, 27th January 2006. 8.00pm in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. poster A celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth

Mozart

  • Requiem
  • Exsultate, jubilate
  • Ave verum corpus
  • Symphony No. 36 in C, ("Linz")

with Emma Kirkby and the Brandenburg Sinfonia

 

2005

Sunday, 11th December 2005. 8.15pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. posterMusic for Advent and Christmas
Sunday, 13th November 2005. 8.00pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. posterReflections of Remembrance

Parry - Two Songs of Farewell
Tallis - Lamentations Part I
Woodward - Hear my crying
Pizzetti - Messa di Requiem

Sunday, 16th October 2005. 6.30pm in Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge. posterTodd - Mass in Blue, for choir, jazz trio and soprano, featuring Will Todd (piano) and Bethany Halliday (soprano)

plus

Elgar - From the Bavarian Highlands
Motets by Wood and Rheinberger

Saturday, 9th July 2005. 7.30pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Music for a Summer's Evening

Partsongs by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms
Dowland - Three madrigals
Barber - To be sung on the water
Lange-Müller - Madonna of the waves
Ravel - Trois Chansons
Wood - Hail, gladdening light
Rheinberger - Abendlied
Elgar - From the Bavarian Highlands

Tuesday, 31st May to Sunday, 5th June, 2005. Summer Tour to Heidelberg, Germany Concerts in Pforzheim and Heidelberg.
Sunday, March 27th, in Snape Maltings Britten - War Requiem

with the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir and the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy

Saturday 19th March 2005. 7.3pm in St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Bach - Magnificat
Lalande - Cantate Domino
Bach - Cantata 34
Saturday, 29th January 2005. 7.30pm in Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge. poster French & Italian Baroque masterpieces, including

Monteverdi - Beatus Vir & Laudate Dominum
Charpentier - Quatre antiennes

and music by Corelli, Lully, & others

with Lara James and Julia Black [baroque violins], Rachel Godsill [soprano] and Ian Gammie [theorbo]

 

2004

Sunday, 12th December 2004. 8.15pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Music for Advent and Christmas, including

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Christmas carols
Villa Lobos - Ave Maria

Saturday 4th December 2004. 7.30pm in Linton Parish Church. Christmas charity concert event for Linton Music Society
Sunday, 14th November 2004. 8pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Reflections of Remembrance

J.S. Bach - Fürchte dich nicht
J.C. Bach - Fürchte dich nicht
Verdi - Pater Noster
Wesley - Thou wilt keep him
Purcell - Funeral Sentences
Lloyd - Were you there?
Todd - Two Prayers

Saturday, 10th July 2004. 7.30pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Summer concert with strawberries and sparkling wine served on Erasmus Lawn, including music by Fauré and Vaughan Williams and folk songs from around the British Isles.
Wednesday, 2nd to Sunday, 6th June 2004. Summer Tour to Venice, Italy. Concerts in churches in Venice, and a sung Mass in St. Mark's
Saturday, 20th March 2004. 7.30pm in St John's College Chapel, Cambridge. poster With the Brandenburg Sinfonia and Daniel Hyde (organ)
Duruflé - Requiem
Handel - My heart is inditing
Mozart - Coronation Mass
Saturday, 31st January 2004. 7.30pm in Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge. poster Winter concert with Cambridge Baroque Camerata
Vivaldi - Gloria
Corelli - Christmas Concerto
Bach - Cantata no. 196
 

2003

Sunday, 14th December 2003. 8.15pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Music for Advent & Christmas
Saturday, 6th December 2003. 7.00pm in the United Reform Free Church, St Ives. Advent & Christmas concert in aid of the British Porphyria Association
Sunday, 9th November 2003. 8.00pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Reflections of Remembrance, including

Lôbo - Requiem
Britten - Hymn to St Cecilia

Friday, 24th and Sunday 26th October 2003 at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk Britten - War Requiem
with the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir and Orchestra.
Friday, 25th to Wednesday, 30th July 2003 Summer Tour to Sweden. Concerts in Finskakyrkan (Finnish Church), Riddarholmskyrkan and Uppsala cathedral.
Sunday, 22nd June 2003. 3.00pm at Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Szymanowski Symphony No. 3 (The Song of the Night)

with the Britten-Pears Orchestra and Chamber Choir, as part of the 56th Aldeburgh Festival. The programme also includes

Berlioz - Les nuits d'été
Kagel - Tantz-Schul (first suite) (UK première), and
Rouget de Lisle (arr. Berlioz) Hymne des Marseillais

Saturday, 12th July 2003. 7.30pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Summer concert: a selection from Monteverdi, Haydn, Brahms, Parry, Britten and Swedish part-songs.

Strawberries and sparkling wine served in the interval.

Saturday, 22nd March 2003. 7.00pm in St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge. poster Bach - St. Matthew Passion
with the Saraband Consort, Neil Jenkins (Evangelist), Nigel Wickens (Christus) and Rachel Godsill, David Clegg, Tom Raskin & Richard Hillier
 

2002

Sunday, 15th December 2002. 8.15pm in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Advent & Christmas
Sunday, 10th November 2002. 8.00pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Reflections of Remembrance including music by Bach, Schütz, Bruckner, Harwood & Balfour-Gardiner
Friday, 26th and Saturday, 27th July 2002 in York, Ripon and Durham Friday, 26th at 2.00pm - York Minster
Friday, 26th at 8.00pm - Ripon Cathedral
Saturday, 27th at 11.00am - Durham Cathedral
Saturday, 27th at 7.30pm - Chapter House, Durham Cathedral
Saturday, 13th July 2002. 7.30pm in Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge An evening of Iberian Renaissance and English Romantic music.
Saturday, 23rd March 2002. 7.30pm in the Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
Haydn - Little Organ Mass
Britten - St. Nicholas
 

2001

Saturday, 15th December 2001. 8.00pm at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Advent and Christmas, including carols with audience participation
Sunday, 11th November 2001. 8.00pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Bach - Komm, Jesu, komm
Wesley - Ascribe unto the Lord
Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
Brahms - Geistliches Lied
Howells - Requiem
Saturday, 7th July 2001. 7:30pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Handel - Acis and Galatea
Monday, 28th to Thursday, 31st May 2001 in Prague, Czech Republic 56th Prague Spring International Music Festival
The Fairhaven Singers performed four concerts and a mass during this famous festival.
The story, and some pictures, can be found here.
Saturday, 19th May 2001. 7.30pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Favourite Choral Music
Gibbons, Purcell, Pearsall, Stanford, Mozart

A fundraising concert for Strethall Church Restoration Fund and featuring a selection of music to be performed at the Prague Spring International Music Festival.

Saturday, 24th March 2001. 8:15pm at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Schubert - Lieder and partsongs with Nigel Wickens, Baritone
Mozart - Solemn Vespers
 

2000

Sunday, 10th December 2000. 8.15pm at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Advent and Christmas, including carols with audience participation
Saturday, 4th November 2000. 8.00pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Remembrance Day Concert

Tallis - Lamentations, Part I
Debussy - Trois Chansons
Tippett - Negro Spirituals

plus motets by Rachmaninov and Duke Ellington

Saturday, 15th July 2000. 7.30pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Summer Concert, including
Harris - Faire is the Heav'n
Gibbons - O clap your hands
Bach - Lobet den Herrn
Britten - Choral dances from Gloriana

and music by Farrant, Elgar, Parry, Coward, Gershwin & Porter

Saturday, 25th March 2000. 8.00pm at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Todd - The Burning Road
 

1999

Sunday, 12th December 1999. 8.15pm at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Advent and Christmas, including Christmas Carols with audience participation.
Saturday, 6th November 1999. 8.00pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Remembrance

Fauré - Requiem
Howells - Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
Howells - Like as the Hart
Weelkes - When David Heard
Byrd - Justorum Animae
Gibbons - Almighty and Everlasting God

Saturday, 26th June 1999. 7.30pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for a Summer's Evening

Britten - Five Flower Songs
Stanford - The Blue Bird, The Swallow

plus Saint-Saëns, Weelkes, Monteverdi
and a selection of lighter music.

Sunday, 21st March 1999. 8.00pm at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Handel - Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Holst - Nunc dimittis
Gesualdo - Motets
Todd - Come Now My Beloved
 

1998

Sunday, 13th December. 8.15pm at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Advent and Christmas, including Christmas Carols with audience participation.
Saturday, 7th November. 8.00pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Stanford - Magnificat (in C)
Purcell - Hear my Prayer
Purcell - O God, Thou art my God
Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
Gibbons - Nunc Dimittis
Pearsall - Lay a Garland
Bantock - Lady Eternity
Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
Saturday, 27th June. 8.00pm at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge. Bach - Singet dem Herrn
Josquin - Ave Maria
Lalande - De Profundis
Lloyd - A Garland of Praise (premiere)
Handel - Overture to Alcina
Saturday, 23rd May. 7.30pm at Ely Cathedral. Josquin - Ave Maria
Mozart - Ave Verum; Sancta Maria; Sonata in F
Brahms - Six Part Songs
Saturday, 21st March. 8.00pm at the West Road Concert Hall. Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Brahms - Six Part Songs
Orff - Carmina Burana
 

1997

Sunday, 14th December. 8.15pm at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Music for Advent and Christmas.