Concerts

The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. Elgar disapproved of […]

Come and enjoy a cabaret-style atmosphere with mulled wine, mince pies and Leicestershire Chorale offering music in a lighter style to kick off the Christmas season. Including music from “Mr Christmas” himself John Rutter, arrangements by masters of their craft Peter Gritton and Keith Roberts and some less well-known gems from the pen of Richard […]

Chorale makes its second visit to St Aidan’s bringing a reflective and devotional programme of choral and organ music, plainsong chant and soothing words, all inspired by the ancient monastic office of compline. This is a rich seam of music to mine, which is often overlooked in favour of that written for more important religious […]

The stunning and thought-provoking surroundings of Holy Cross Priory Church in the centre of Leicester’s New Walk provide an apposite setting for this programme of music for Lent and Passiontide. At the centre of our sequence is James Weeks startling work Orlando Tenebrae, written between 2006 and 2010, which highlights man’s capacity for inhumanity towards […]

Sunday 28 May 2017, Come and support us in our annual efforts to raise money for our work with young singers, both those who come to join our choir as Choral Scholars and those we work with as part of our YouthFindaVoice scheme. A 5pm concert filled with madrigals, part songs, solos from our existing […]