The Rodolfus Choir are delighted to be returning to Douai Abbey for our regularly sold-out biennial New Year’s Eve concert after a long break due to COVID-19.  This concert will present some of the finest choral music written for the season including Giovanni Gabrieli’s Jubilate Deo, Cornelius’s The Three Kings and Howells’s A Spotless Rose, as well as music by J.S. Bach, Arvo Pärt, Imogen Holst and Tomas Luis de Victoria. The choir will also sing contemporary carols by Lucy Walker, James Burton, Jan Sandström and Ralph Allwood himself!

Conductors: Ralph Allwood MBE and Elinor Cooper

The Rodolfus Choir are delighted to be performing at the National Musician's Church of Holy Sepulchre, Holborn and Douai Abbey this festive season! These concerts will present some of the finest choral music written for the season including Giovanni Gabrieli’s Jubilate Deo, Cornelius’s The Three Kings and Howells’s A Spotless Rose, as well as music by J.S. Bach, Arvo Pärt, Imogen Holst and Tomas Luis de Victoria. The choir will also sing contemporary carols by Lucy Walker, James Burton, Jan Sandström and Ralph Allwood himself!

Conductors: Ralph Allwood MBE and Elinor Cooper

Join Bristol University Singers for their annual Christmas performance, featuring festive music old and new. Free with retiring collection.

Programme:

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Elizabeth Poston
Gaude virgo mater Christum Josquin des Prez
Mirabile misterium Andrew Carter
Angelus ad pastores Aleotti
Gabriel's Message Clements
O gloriosa Domina Zielenski
Ave Maria Anton Bruckner
A Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten
A tender shoot Kerensa Briggs
Benedicamus Domino Peter Warlock
The Three Kings Dove
Lully lulla Leighton
We are Ysaye M Barnwell
In the bleak midwinter Rebecca Dale
Welcome Yule John Joubert
Somerset Wassail Rutter
Jingle Bells Allwood

Collegium Singers presents a programme of Christmas music, telling the story of the Nativity through music from the Renaissance to the present day.

Programme

Now May We Singen - Cecilia McDowall
Hodie Christus Natus Est - Jan Sweelinck
Gabriel's Message - Jim Clements
Vom Himmel Hoch (From Magnificat in E flat Major) - JS Bach
Ne Timeas Maria - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Freut euch und jubiliert (From Magnificat in E flat Major) - JS Bach
A Nativity - John Tavener
Bogoroditse Dyevo - Sergei Rachmaninoff
A Hymne to Christ - Imogen Holst
Virga Jesse - Bruckner
My heart, O God - Lucy Walker
Sicut locutus est (From Magnificat in E flat Major) - JS Bach

INTERVAL

O Radiant Dawn - James Macmillan
Angelus ad pastores - Raphaella Aleotti
The Huron Carol - Eleanor Daley
Quem vidistis pastores? - Richard Dering
The Shepherd's Carol - Bob Chilcott
The Oxen - Jonathan Rathbone
Here is the little door - Herbert Howells
The Three Kings - Cornelius arr. Atkins
In dulci jubilo - Robert Lucas de Pearsall
Somerset Carol - Trad.
Cornish Wassail - arr. Imogen Holst
The 12 Days of Christmas - Andrew Carter

Festive music by Britten and Holst, alongside cosy Christmas favourites!

Harpist Laurette Pope

Organist Andrew Kirk

Bristol University Symphony Orchestra and Bristol University Singers present Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music (conductor Elinor Cooper), Holsts Beni Mora, and Symphony No. 2 by Grace Williams (conductor John Pickard)

Bristol University Singers present a programme of music for the heavens. The concert features works for double choir including Victoria’s sublime Salve Regina, Hail Gladdening Light by Charles Wood and Faire is the Heaven by William Harris, alongside music by Eriks Esenvalds, Gustav Holst, Anton Bruckner and Amy Beach. 

Programme

Hail Gladdening light - Wood
Gaude virgo mater - des Prez
Ave Maria - Holst
Salve regina a 8 - Victoria
Ave Maria - Bruckner
Daemon Irrepit - Orban
Nunc Dimittis - Beach
Ave Maria - Lukaszewski
AMDG: O Deus, ego amor Te – Britten
O Virgo Splendens - Tresedar
O Salutaris - Esenvalds
Faire is the Heaven - Harris

An introduction to the best of Italian choral music from Monteverdi to Gabrieli, culminating in Vivaldi’s Gloria in D major.

Programme:

Beatus vir - Claudio Monteverdi
Sicut cervus - Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
Crucifixus - Antonio Lotti
Adoramus te - Orlande de Lassus
O vos omnes - Carlo Gesulado
Sicut lilium - attrib. Leonora d'Este
Jubilate Deo a 8 - Giovanni Gabrieli
Ascendens Christus in altum - Vittoria/Raffaella Aleotti
Cantate Domino - Claudio Monteverdi
INTERVAL
Gloria in D major - Antonio Vivaldi

Performing a selection of music from the Renaissance to present day.

Collegium Singers present a concert of music to celebrate the summer months, with repertoire from Finzi and Fanny Mendelssohn to Kate Rusby, Bob Chilcott and The Real Group.

An end-of-year celebration of the ensemble and its singers.

Programme:

The Flower – Alec Roth

Gartenlieder No.1 Im Wald – Fanny Hensel

Gartenlieder No. 2 Lockung – Fanny Hensel

Drei gemischte Chöre I. Abendfeir in Venedig – Clara Schumann

Die Rose stand im Thau – Robert Schumann

Beati mortui – Felix Mendelssohn

The Drowned Lovers – Judith Bingham

The Bluebird – Stanford

Through the house give glimmering light – Beach

Hymn to St Ceilia – Britten

Interval

Star of the county down -  Ben Parry

All things are quite silent – Kerry Andrew

Something exciting – Derri Lewis

Numbers – Shruthi Rajasekar

Butterfly – Mia Makaroff

Shenandoah – arr. Erb

Words – Edenroth

Encore: Indodana – Scmidt

Celebrate 40 years of National Youth Choirs of Great Britain at this special evening, featuring over 1,000 singers, fabulous music and a few surprises.

The programme will put our young musicians centre stage, showcasing the current choirs and alumni, to celebrate four decades and look towards the future.

Music will include an innovative performance of Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium, sung by past and present choir members, familiar favourites reflecting NYCGB’s past repertoire and the premiere of a newly-commissioned 40-part work by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Ben Parry.

Elinor will be working as a section leader with the National Youth Boys’ Choir for this event.

Handel’s Messiah with Swindon Choral Society, and British Sinfonietta.

Bristol University Singers present a free one-hour programme inspired by faith, with music by Parry, Ešenvalds, Gjeilo and Byrd.

Celebrating 400 years of William Byrd and his legacy | Collegium Singers, Taunton

Elinor conducts the Bristol University Singers.

Derri Joseph Lewis Something Exciting

Ola Gjeilo Agnus Dei (Phoenix)

William Byrd Sing Joyfully

Eriks Esenvalds Amazing Grace

Philippe de Monte Super flumina Babylonis

William Byrd Quomodo cantabimus

arr. Michael Barrett and Ralph Schmitt Indodana

Shruthi Rajasekar Numbers

Anders Edenroth Words

The Rodolfus Choir perform a programme inspired by William Byrd as part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London. Including music by Tallis, Purcell, Elgar, Parry and Ralph Allwood. Conducted by Ralph Allwood and Elinor Cooper.

The Rodolfus Choir.

Ravishing choral music with a Christmas theme, including Vaughan Williams, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Tallis, Bach and Howells presented by the exceptionally talented Rodolfus Choir.

Drawn from Britain’s very finest young choral singers, The Rodolfus Choir “perform throughout with clarity, flawless intonation and an ideal blend, in repertoire that would tax the resources of a professional choir.“ BBC Music Magazine.

Swindon Choral Society, Wroughton Brass Band, JTPTrust Concert Choir.

Bristol University Singers present their annual Christmas concert from the beautiful surroundings of the Victoria Methodist Church. Programme to include Christmas favourites by Howells, Britten, Rutter, Praetorius and Pearsall as well as new music by Rebecca Dale, Jim Clements and others.

Vivaldi Gloria, Soprano Soloist with Redland Green Choir, conducted by Huw Morgan.

Bristol University Singers.

Bristol University Singers present a programme on the theme of War and Peace including music by Shütz, Britten, Shostakovich and Howells.

Music for Remembrance. Elinor conducts the Collegium Singers.

Rest - Ralph Vaughan Williams
For the Fallen - Douglas Guest
Cello suite No3 in C Major - Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello - Keith Tempest
A Farewell to Arms - Richard Rodney-Bennett
Cello - Keith Tempest
Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae - Jaarko Måntijårvi 
Nimrod - Edward Elgar
Organ - Shean Bowers
Requiem Opus 9 - Maurice Durufle

The National Youth Training Choir sits at the heart of NYCGB and provides a training ground for singers to develop their vocal and musicianship skills in diverse and demanding repertoire. We welcome talented first-time members as well as graduates of our Boys' and Girls' Choirs.

Elinor conducts the Bristol University Singers.

Bristol University’s top vocal ensemble return to St George’s with a programme of music inspired by landscapes and the people within them, including music by Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Kerry Andrew.

Watch one of the greatest science fiction films of all time with the Philharmonia Orchestra and London Voices performing its extraordinary soundtrack live.

Philharmonia Orchestra

Robert Ziegler conductor

London Voices

Light choral music for the summer with Swindon Choral Society. Conducted by Elinor Cooper.