Past Performances

Our first 46 years: 1977–2022

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)
6 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
2020	No events took place in 2020 or the first half of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic
27 Nov 2021	Choruses from Handel – Messiah; Vivaldi – Gloria
13 Mar 2022	Civic Service
2 Apr 2022	Rutter – Mass of the Children; selected anthems
2 Jun 2022	Lighting of the beacon for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
9 Jul 2022	Choruses from Gilbert & Sullivan
10 Dec 2022	Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Britten – Ceremony of Carols
1 Apr 2023	awaited…