Concerts

Following the success of our sequence of choral polyphony, chant and organ improvisation at the same venue in December 2012, we offer you another chance for spiritual reflection in the season of Candlemas. To include choral music by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Gustav Holst, Johannes Eccard, plainchant and organ improvisation. Details Saturday 1 February 2014, […]

J.S. Bach’s setting of the Passion according to St John has become one of the most widely performed musical settings of the Passion text in the history of modern Christendom. A brutally direct and gripping work; yet with a refined beauty and heart-rending emotion; it is perhaps the most approachable of the composer’s large-scale oratorios. […]

Thomas Weelkes epic madrigal Oft did I marle sets the tone for this sequence of words and music with its line ‘But fire and water there may mell, where love and hate together dwell’. This programme of opposing moods and texts will include music by Morten Lauridsen (from his Madrigali – Fire Madrigals), Tomas Luis […]

Leicestershire Chorale, returning to the beautiful Cathedral of St David's, welcome the chance to present Choral Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer (1662). Preces and responses Clucas Psalm 71 Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A Stanford Like as the hart Howells

The friends of Leicestershire Chorale are delighted to welcome you to listen to Leicestershire Chorale's short summer concert followed by a delicious summer buffet in beautiful surroundings. This year the concert will be in the splendid Holy Cross Church in Burley in Rutland. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building, […]