October 2019
Mendelssohn: The Young Master
With: David Cowen accompanying on the organ and with former LC Scholar Avishka Edirisinghe (piano) and his brother Danushka (cello) Programme: To include Mendelssohn’s Eight-voice Te Deum, some Brahms and Mendelssohn motets and for Danushka to play a Brahms ‘Cello Sonata, plus Mendelssohn’s Lied ohne worte. Tickets £15, £12 (Friends of Leicestershire Chorale), £1 (U19 and NUS) Click here to buy tickets
Find out more »December 2019
Shepherds, Kings and the Christ Child
Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Tom Williams Conductor, and David Cowen Organ. It is always a great pleasure to return to sing in the church of St James the Greater, with its arresting architecture and stunning acoustic. Our programme is of a slightly more esoteric and serious musical nature than that which we enjoyed bringing to the parish of Pickwell last December and will include some more contemporary compositions by Jonathan Dove, JudithWeir and Bob Chilcott, many written…
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Choral Evensong for Epiphany
We travel to the neighbouring county of Derbyshire for a brief away trip at the start of the new calendar year to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany in the beautiful surroundings of Derby Cathedral. The Cathedral has the perfect acoustic for choral music and we look forward to deputising for the Cathedral Choir and bringing some Festal joy to the season. We will include some of the music we performed in our previous concert at St James the Greater, plus…
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