Our 30th Anniversary Concert: June 2025
We are delighted to mark this milestone with our 30th Anniversary Concert on 11 June 2025 with an uplifting selection of some of our most popular works performed over the last three years from Vivaldi, Schubert, Verdi, Rutter, Bruckner and others.
​Vivaldi's famous setting of the Gloria in excelsis Deo which opens the 12 movement RV 589 was composed during Vivaldi's employment at Venice's Pio Ospedale della Pietà, known for its advanced choral ensemble. His Glorias remained relatively unknown until RV 589's revival by Alfredo Casella during Vivaldi Week in Siena (1939) and is performed at many sacred events.
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Of Anton Bruckner’s 40 sacred motets written between 1869-96, Os justi (The mouth of the righteous) is a Gregorian chant new minted by Bruckner's intense and moving setting.
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Schubert’s setting of Psalm 23 Gott ist mein Hirt (The Lord is my shepherd) for female voices was commissioned by his fellow choir director Anna Fröhlich in 1820, to the german translation of Moses Mendelssohn.
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Franz Biebl, C20 german composer of classical choral music. His Ave Maria ( Angelus Domini), combining the text of the Ave Maria with the Angelus, has since been arranged for many different voice combinations including mixed and male voice choirs.
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Verdi's famous Anvil Chorus from act 2, scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera Il Trovatore depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn and singing the praises of hard work, good wine, and Gypsy women.
John Rutter's 2001 Feel the Spirit arrangements of greats from the Gospel tradition were inspired by American mezzo soprano Melanie Mitchell, first performed New York's Carnegie Hall and is sung by choirs across the world. We sing Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and When the saints go marching in.
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Tschotsholosa is a vibrant South African Nguni song from of mixed tribes of forced labour gold miners, with its mix of Zulu and Ndebele words. Its popularity lives on as a freedom song powerfully expressing solidarity.
