Elgar: Te Deum and Benedictus | Haydn: Te Deum | Durufle: Requiem

Soloists: Zena Bradley (Mezzo), Stephen Cooper (Bass), Margaret Chadwick (Cello), John Keys (Organ)

OUTSIDE the world of French organ music, Maurice Duruflé is remembered for one work, the Requiem Mass he composed in 1947.

In character the piece is largely meditative and intimate – although Duruflé’s setting of the “Pie Jesu” text departs…

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RODERICK WILLIAMS MASTER CLASS

Leader: Roderick Williams. Accompanist: Angela Foan

Roderick Williams
Mar 14, 2020

This is a fantastic opportunity for local, young aspiring singers, aged 16 to 21, to perform to, and be coached by, one of this country’s leading professional singers. The masterclass is one of the choir’s initiatives aimed at encouraging young singers…

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Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245

Soloists Mary Bevan (Soprano), Roderick Morris (Counter-tenor), Richard Dowling (Tenor, arias), James Oxley (Tenor, Evangelist), Marcus Farnsworth (Bass, arias), Stephen Cooper (Bass, Jesus)

YOU could tell that the St John Passion is well and truly embedded in the lifeblood of the Bach Society. Their long familiarity with Bach’s great work meant the story could be told with a vivid sense of drama and that the audience could have confidence…

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Verdi: Requiem

Elisabeth Meister (Soprano), Lise Christensen (Mezzo), James Edwards (Tenor), Paul Reeves (Bass)

From the hushed opening Requiem aeternam to the final heartfelt Libera me, this was an interpretation that brought out the depths of Verdi’s masterpiece. All the components of a fine performance were there: superb solo work from Elisabeth Meister (soprano),…

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Concert tour in France for Nottingham choir

Around 30 members of the Nottingham Bach Choir have just returned from a successful concert tour of central France. Directed by their former accompanist Philip Collin, now Director of the Manchester Bach Choir, the group gave a number of performances…

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Handel Israel in Egypt

Soloists: Sarah Simmonds, Jo Boddison (Soprano), Stephen Power (Alto), Richard Pratt (Tenor)

Handel’s sacred oratorio Israel in Egypt is both a spiritual reflection on the Exodus story and a dramatic recreation of the accounts of the Plagues and the Red Sea crossing. Both elements were strongly conveyed under Paul Hale, who brought out the…

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