October 2022
Choral Workshop Day of Venetian Music
We start out season with a Come and Sing event as part of the celebrations of Schutz's 350 anniversary year. From 10.30-1 and 2.30-5 in St Mary de Castro Church in central Leicester, there will be Choral Workshop Sessions learning a variety of Venetian-inspired cori spezzati polychoral works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Hans Leo Hassler and Heinrich Schütz, including music by Nun Composers Isabella Leonarda and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. You will need to bring along your own lunch or…
Find out more »December 2022
German & Venetian Vespers for Christmas
Wie es war im Anfang, jetzt und immer dar German/Venetian Vespers for Christmas - part of our celebrations of Schutz 350 A programme of German/Venetian choral music structured around the Catholic Liturgy of a Marian Vespers, including pieces of an Advent and Christmas flavour. This is a large-scale project working with instrumentalists from the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, one of Europe’s leading early music groups and we hope to use the glorious space and splendour of St Andrew’s Church…
Find out more »February 2023
I gaze upon you
I gaze upon you – an eclectic mix of choral music, solo song, piano and organ solo with spoken word in celebration of love to honour St Valentine A musical and poetical celebration of all good that binds us together, omnia vincit amor. To include an eclectic mix of music by Gabriel Jackson, Thomas Tallis, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Burns, Tomas Luis de Victoria, JS Bach and in recognition of his 70th Birthday Chorale’s own composer and founding member David Fisher.…
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