December 2018
The Spirit of Christmas
Sacred and Secular Choral Music for Advent With David Cowen Organ Join Leicestershire Chorale amidst the candlelit beauty of All Saint’s Church in Pickwell for an evening of sacred and secular choral music, readings and organ solos to stir up the Christmas spirit in the season of Advent. Tickets £12 from TicketSource. Buy now >>
Find out more »March 2019
In Illo Tempore
Music by Monteverdi and the Franco-Flemish School With David Cowen Organ We begin our concerts of 2019 with a lesser-known but rather glorious Parody Mass by Monteverdi, which draws its musical motivic inspiration from a six-part motet by the much earlier Franco-Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert. Whilst the mass ostensibly looks back to the stile antico (old style) of Palestrina, and of course Gombert himself, it is still imbued with a stylish touch that hints at music found in Monteverdi’s Vespers…
Find out more »April 2019
Jesu membra nostri
Dietrich Buxtehude and other Choral Music for Passiontide With Leicester Cathedral Choir (Dir. Chris Ouvry-Johns) Leicestershire Camerata, and David Cowen Organ April 2019 sees the renewal of our fruitful partnership with Leicester Cathedral, their Director of Music Christopher Johns and his talented singers. Following acclaimed performances of Bach’s St John Passion and Rosenmüller’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary alongside the Cathedral Youth Choir and Chamber Choir, we now give a joint concert alongside the main Cathedral Choir. Chorale will…
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