Past Performances

Our first 42 years: 1977–2019

1970’s
09 Jun 1977	Jubilee Concert of Coronation Music
26 Jan 1978	Handel – Messiah
01 Jun 1978	Madrigals & Part Songs
11 Feb 1979	Haydn – Creation
10 Jun 1979	Choral Evensong
1980’s
24 Feb 1980	Fauré – Requiem; church music by Purcell & Stanford
07 May 1980	Arts & Crafts Recital: The Seasons in Music, Words and Pictures
21 Dec 1980	Charpentier – Midnight Mass; Handel – Messiah (part)
28 May 1981	Evensong for Ascension Day
30 Jun 1981	Purcell – Fairy Queen
03 Apr 1982	Verdi – Requiem (with Banbury Choral Society)
12 Dec 1982	Mozart – Missa Brevis in F
29 Mar 1983	Stainer – Crucifixion (Aynho)
01 Apr 1983	Stainer – Crucifixion
03 Jul 1983	Choral Evensong (Helmdon)
07 Apr 1984	Elgar – Dream of Gerontius (with Banbury Choral Society)
19 Jun 1984	Choral Evensong
08 Oct 1984	Handel – Messiah (in aid of hospices)
18 Dec 1984	Christmas Carols
20 Apr 1985	Brahms – Requiem
15 Sep 1985	Choral Evensong (Canons Ashby)
04 Jan 1986	Haydn – Maria Theresa Mass & Insanae et Vanae Curae
20 May 1986	Bach – Jesu Priceless Treasure
08 Jul 1986	Choral Evensong
10 Jan 1987	Mozart – Requiem in D minor
09 May 1987	Mendelssohn – St Paul
16 Jun 1987	Choral Evensong (Syresham)
27 Feb 1988	Bach – St John Passion
29 Mar 1988	Fauré – Requiem
14 Jun 1988	Choral Evensong
10 Dec 1988	Haydn – Nelson Mass
18 Mar 1989	Handel – Messiah
23 May 1989	Choral Evensong
1990’s
13 Jan 1990	Schubert – Mass in G; Mozart – Ave Verum, Seraphim & Three Kings
07 Apr 1990	Verdi – Requiem (with Banbury Choral Society)
19 Jun 1990	Choral Evensong
12 Jan 1991	Kodaly – Missa Brevis; Mendelssohn – Hear my Prayer; Britten – Te Deum
13 Apr 1991	Mendelssohn – Elijah (with Banbury Choral Society)
02 Jul 1991	Choral Evensong
07 Jul 1991	Choral Evensong (Syresham)
05 Oct 1991	Haydn – Creation (in aid of hospices)
11 Jan 1992	Mozart –Te Deum & Mass in C
19 Sep 1992	Bach – Mass in B minor
16 Jan 1993	Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine & Requiem
30 Mar 1993	Act of Devotion – Anthems & Readings
25 Sep 1993	Britten – Te Deum; Dvorak – Mass in D
15 Jan 1994	Mendelssohn – Hymn of Praise
22 Mar 1994	Music & Readings for Passiontide
05 Jun 1994	Choral Evensong (South Newington)
08 Oct 1994	Handel – Messiah (in aid of hospices)
28 Feb 1995	Archer – Requiem
08 Apr 1995	Elgar – Dream of Gerontius (with Banbury Choral Society)
13 Jun 1995	Choral Evensong
11 Jul 1995	Choral Evensong
20 Jan 1996	Haydn – Maria Theresa Mass; Buxtehude – The Little Newborn Jesus Child; Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus
02 Apr 1996	Act of Devotion for Holy Week
06 Jul 1996	Handel – Messiah (Brackley Music Festival)
18 Jan 1997	Haydn – St Cecilia Mass
25 Mar 1997	Music and readings for Passiontide
28 Jun 1997	Haydn – Creation (Brackley Music Festival)
18 Oct 1997	Mendelssohn – Elijah (with Banbury Choral Society)
24 Jan 1998	Haydn – Harmoniemesse
7 Apr 1998	Fauré – Requiem; Mendelssohn – Hear my Prayer; Moore – It is a thing most wonderful
20 Jun 1998	Choir & organ concert inc. Parry – I was glad (Brackley Music Festival)
16 Jan 1999	Mozart – Requiem
30 Mar 1999	Act of Devotion for Holy Week
26 Jun 1999	Haydn – Nelson Mass (Brackley Music Festival)
2000’s
15 Jan 2000	Handel – Zadok the Priest; Dvorak – Mass in D
18 Apr 2000	Act of Devotion for Holy Week
24 Jun 2000	Handel – Messiah (Brackley Music Festival)
14 Oct 2000	Handel – Messiah (in aid of hospices)
02 Dec 2000	Concert to celebrate life of Eddie Palmer: Fauré – Requiem & Cantique de Jean Racine; Parry – I was glad
10 Apr 2001	Maunder – Olivet to Calvary
23 Jun 2001	Vivaldi – Gloria; Rutter – Gloria; Monteverdi – Beatus Vir (Brackley Music Festival)
01 Dec 2001	Sacred Music through the Centuries inc. Tallis; Purcell; Bach; Stanford
23 Mar 2002	Beethoven – Mass in C
29 Jun 2002	The Eddie Palmer Memorial Concert: Handel – Coronation Anthem The King Shall Rejoice; Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs; Finzi – Lo the full final sacrifice; Arne – Rule Britannia; Elgar – Land of Hope and Glory; Parry – Jerusalem (Brackley Music Festival)
03 Dec 2002	A Seasonal Miscellany – music and readings for Advent and Christmas
05 Apr 2003	Duruflé – Requiem
28 Jun 2003	20th–century American music: Barber – Agnus Dei; Copland – Appalachian Spring; Bernstein – Chichester Psalms; Randall Thompson (Brackley Music Festival)
29 Nov 2003	Handel – Messiah (in aid of Katharine House Hospice)
03 Apr 2004	Bach – St John Passion
01 May 2004	May Day Festival
19 Jun 2004	Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus & Vesperae Solennes de Confessore; Haydn – Harmoniemesse (Brackley Music Festival)
27 Nov 2004	Charpentier – Midnight Mass; Advent Carols
15 Mar 2005	Stainer – Crucifixion (Kings Sutton Church)
22 Mar 2005	Stainer – Crucifixion; Seasonal Anthems
23 Apr 2005	Handel – Messiah (from scratch)
18 Jun 2005	Rutter – Magnificat; Handel – Messiah (Towcester Music Festival)
09 July 2005	Rutter – Magnificat (Brackley Music Festival)
03 Dec 2005	Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Finzi – In Terra Pax & Magnificat
11 Apr 2006	Rutter – Requiem; Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
08 Jul 2006	Mozart – Requiem, Ave Verum Corpus & Laudate Dominum (Brackley Music Festival)
30 Sept 2006	Fauré – Requiem; Vivaldi – Gloria (from scratch)
17 Oct 2006	Choral evensong (Chacombe)
19 Dec 2006	Carol Concert
28 Apr 2007	Dvorak – Stabat Mater
07 Jul 2007	Haydn – The Creation
01 Dec 2007	Britten – Saint Nicolas
18 Mar 2008	Music for Holy Week
28 Jun 2008	Jenkins – The Armed Man; Haydn – Missa Brevis; Mendelssohn –Hear My Prayer
27 Sep 2008	Handel – Messiah (from scratch)
18 Oct 2008	Fauré – Requiem & Cantique de Jean Racine
16 Dec 2008	Carol Concert
04 Apr 2009	Handel – Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest & Hallelujah
27 Jun 2009	Brahms – Liebeslieder Walzer; Orff – Carmina Burana (Brackley Music Festival)
17 Oct 2009	Vivaldi – Gloria
01 Dec 2009	Advent Sequence (Aynho)
08 Dec 2009	Advent Sequence (St John’s Chapel)
19 Dec 2009	Carols (Farmers’ Market)
2010’s
20 Mar 2010	Maunder – Olivet to Calvary; Moore – It is a thing; Lotti – Crucifixus; Pike – Be Thou My Vision; Pärt – Stabat mater
26 Jun 2010	Haydn – Paukenmesse; Dvorak – Mass in D
25 Sep 2010	Gilbert & Sullivan – HMS Pinafore (from scratch)
14 Nov 2010	Remembrance Day Service: Harris – Holy is the True Light
19 Nov 2010	Concert for St Cecilia: Gounod – Messe Solennelle; Howells – A Hymn for St Cecilia
04 Dec 2010	Carol Concert (Middleton Cheney)
18 Dec 2010	Carols (Farmers’ Market)
19 Dec 2010	Piazza Community Carols
09 Apr 2011	Rutter – Requiem; Jenkins – Stabat mater
02 Jul 2011	Goodall – Eternal Light
15 Oct 2011	Schubert Concert
30 Nov 2011	Lights of Love Service: Schubert – Psalm 23
17 Dec 2011	Handel – Messiah
27 Mar 2012	Archer – Requiem; MacMillan – Kiss on Wood (Middleton Cheney)
03 Apr 2012	Archer – Requiem; MacMillan – Kiss on Wood (St John’s Chapel)
07 Jul 2012	Proms Celebration: Handel – Coronation Anthems; Stanford – Songs of the Sea; Planas – Jehanne D’Arc Suite No 2; Elgar – Pomp & Circumstance March; Arne – Rule Britannia; Parry – Jerusalem; Elgar – Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Britten – Gloriana Dances; Butterworth – Banks of Green Willow (with Trinity Camerata)
28 Nov 2012	Lights of Love Service: Chilcott – On Christmas Night + hymns/carols
01 Dec 2012	Chilcott – On Christmas Night; Blake – The Snowman & Awake Before Sunrise; Anderson – Sleigh Ride
23 Feb 2013	Jen Vale’s Incurable Optimism concert: Mozart – Requiem (extracts); You Raise Me Up; Happiness
16 Mar 2013	Mozart – Solemn Vespers, Ave Verum & Requiem
15 Jun 2013	Bach – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Wedding)
06 Jul 2013	Mendelssohn – Elijah
27 Nov 2013	Lights of Love: Britten extracts + hymns/carols
30 Nov 2013	Britten Centenary Concert – A Ceremony of Carols, Simple Symphony, The Ballad of Little Musgrave & Saint Nicolas
22 Mar 2014	Brahms – Alto Rhapsody, Ein Deutsches Requiem
05 Jul 2014	Jenkins – The Peacemakers
21 Oct 2014	Purcell Evening – Te Deum Laudamus, Rejoice in the Lord Alway, Hear My Prayer, I Was Glad, Thou Knowest Lord, Remember Not Lord Our Offences, With Drooping Wings, Come Ye Sons of Art, Sonata in D minor 2nd mvt, Music for a while & If music be the food of love
09 Nov 2014	Brackley Remembrance Service
03 Dec 2014	Lights of Love Service: Archer – The Angel Gabriel + hymns/carols
06 Dec 2014	Christmas Allsorts: Carols and Christmas Songs (with Brackley Junior School and Magdalen College School Brass)
13 Dec 2014	Carols: Victorian Christmas Fayre
19 Dec 2014	Carols: Waitrose Late Night Shopping
27 Mar 2015	Fauré – Requiem (Middleton Cheney)
28 Mar 2015	Fauré – Requiem; church anthems
05 Jul 2015	Beethoven – Mass in C, Symphony No 8; Haydn – musical sequence from The Creation
05 Dec 2015	Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle
19 Mar 2016	Madrigal & Partsongs
02 Jul 2016	Orff – Carmina Burana; opera choruses
03 Dec 2016	Rutter – Magnificat
01 Apr 2017	Chilcott – St John Passion
08 Jul 2017 40th anniversary concert	Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs; Handel – excerpts from Messiah; and music by Mozart, Haydn, Gardiner and Parry
02 Dec 2017	Haydn – Mass in D “Nelson”; Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Vivaldi – Gloria
24 Mar 2018	Duruflé – Requiem; and other sacred music
07 Jul 2018	Swingin’ Summer – a selection of choral arrangements of classic popular songs
10 Nov 2018	Jenkins – The Armed Man; Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
11 Dec 2018	Carol Concert
15 Dec 2018	Carols: Waitrose
18 Dec 2018	Carols: Candleford Court and Pegasus Court care homes
30 Mar 2019	Haydn – Missa Brevis in B flat, St Joannis de Deo (Little Organ Mass); Mozart – Mass in C (Coronation Mass)
18 Jun 2019	Songs for the Stage (Evenley Wood)
06 Jul 2019	Songs for the Stage
30 Nov 2019	Mozart – Requiem; Puccini – Messa di Gloria
15 Dec 2019	Family Christmas Concert (Egerton Hall, Brackley)
2020’s