Carols by Candlelight
Each year our well attended and supported Carols by Candlelight marks for many the beginning of the Christmas celebrations. Carols and other pieces of Christmas music performed by the choir are interspersed with readings, sometimes humorous, and favourite carols in which the audiences enthusiastically joins in with the choir.
Listed below are the many musical pieces the choir has perfomed over the last ten years or so.
June 2010
Jenkins’ Jubilate Deo
Salzedo’s Divertimento
Allegri’s Miserere
Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and Magnificat
Mozart’s Requiem Mass K626
May 2012
Messe Solennelle (‘Petite Messe Solennelle’) Gioacchino Rossini
May 2013
Brahms – A German Requiem,
Four Serious Songs
Wednesday June 11th 2014
Hereford Cathedral at 5.30 pm.
The choir sang the Evensong Service in the cathedral.
John Sanders: Preces and Responses, with the Lord’s Prayer.
Stanford: Magnificat in C; Nunc Dimittis in C; Psalm 147.
Brahms: How lovely are Thy dwellings
May 2016
Haydn’s Creation
November 2016
Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F,
Haydn’s Little Organ Mass,
Mozart’s Ave Verum, and Laudate Dominum, and Haydn’s Insanae et Vanae Curae.
June 2017
Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man, and John Rutter’s Gloria.
November 2017
Dvorak Mass in D
Faure’s Requiem
June 2018
A Coronation Celebration including music by Handel, Elgar, Parry, Stanford and Vaughan Williams
May 2019
‘An evening at the opera.’
October 2010
An Evening of Operatic Favourites
June 2011
Palestrina’s Exsultate Deo
Holst’s The Hymn of Jesus
Dvorak’s Te Deum
Jenkins’ Stabat Mater
November 2012
An Evening of English Music
November 2013
Rutter’s Requiem
Fauré’s Requiem
November 2014
A full performance of Handel’s Messiah (omitting sections 47 – 51 of part three)
May 2015
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
November 2015
An evening of cathedral music featuring the music of Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry including
Stanford:
Te Deum and Jubilate.
O for a closer walk with God
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Bb
How beauteous are their feet
Parry:
I was glad
My Soul there is a country
Never weather beaten sail
Jerusalem (audience participate)
Long since in Egypt’s Plenteous Land
Blest pair of Sirens
November 2018
Handel’s Messiah
April 2019
Stainer’s Crucifixion at St. Michael’s church, Tenbury Wells
November 2019
Haydn’s St Nicholas Mass and Te Deum
Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D Major
All concerts were cancelled in 2020 as a consequence of the Coronavirus pandemic
On 20th November 2021 we re-opened with a very successful performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Faure’s Requiem. There followed a performance of Stainer’s the Crucifixion at the Priory Church Leominster on Good Friday, 15th April 2022.
June 2022
Brahms’ Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Hear my prayer and O for the wings of a dove.
November 2022
Work by CHH Parry and Puccini’s wonderful Messa di Gloria.
June 2023
A Coronation Celebration including Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems and music by Mozart and Purcel.
November 2023
Handel’s Messiah.
April 2024
Rossini, Petite Messe Solennelle
June 2024
Haydn : The Creation