Concerts

Music by Monteverdi and the Franco-Flemish School With David Cowen Organ We begin our concerts of 2019 with a lesser-known but rather glorious Parody Mass by Monteverdi, which draws its musical motivic inspiration from a six-part motet by the much earlier Franco-Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert. Whilst the mass ostensibly looks back to the stile antico […]

Dietrich Buxtehude and other Choral Music for Passiontide With Leicester Cathedral Choir (Dir. Chris Ouvry-Johns) Leicestershire Camerata, and David Cowen Organ April 2019 sees the renewal of our fruitful partnership with Leicester Cathedral, their Director of Music Christopher Ouvry-Johns and his talented singers. Following acclaimed performances of Bach’s St John Passion and Rosenmüller’s Vespers of […]

With Catherine Griffiths Mezzo-Soprano and David Cowen Piano. For our final concert of the season we are delighted to welcome back Mezzo-Soprano Catherine Griffiths, who has appeared as a regular visiting soloist with Chorale over the past few years. We present a programme of music from American and British Twentieth Century Greats, including Aaron Copland’s […]

Tom Williams Conductor David Cowen Organ Avishka Edirisinghe Piano Danushka Edirisinghe ‘Cello Leicestershire Chorale is joined by talented young ‘cellist Danushka Edirisinghe and his pianist brother Avishka (a fomer choral scholar) for ravishing music by German romantic masters Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. Our young Meisters will play music to include some of Brahms’ Sonata […]

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 […]