RLSBC 80TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 2019/20

Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (Manchester Performance)

To celebrate Altrincham Choral Society’s 75th anniversary, and coinciding with our own RLSBC 80th anniversary season, we will be performing Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius” at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, as a precursor to our own headline event at Coventry Cathedral (see below).

Conducted by Steven Roberts with the Manchester Sinfonia, we will be joined by members of:

Altrincham Choral Society
Chesterfield Philharmonic Choir
Congleton Choral Society
Sandbach Choral Society

This promises to be a truly memorable performance for choir members and audience alike.

Tickets are available from The Bridgewater Hall via their website or in person from the box office. Tickets purchased in person will be £15. Tickets purchased via the website will attract a £2.50 booking fee per ticket.

Sunday 12th July 2020 7.30pm

The Bridgewater Hall

Lower Mosley Street

Manchester

M2 3WS

www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (Coventry Cathedral)

The grand finale of this, the Bach Choir’s 80th anniversary season, is a spectacular joint performance of Elgar’s glorious “The Dream of Gerontius” in Coventry Cathedral, where we shall be joined by Congleton Choral Society and the Coventry Catherdral Singers, with the English Symphony Orchestra.

We are delighted to be able to round off the Choir’s anniversary season in this fitting and memorable way, and look forward to working with top soloists and with the ESO, together with our friends from Congleton CS and the Coventry Cathedral Singers to fill the cathedral with joyful sounds. This will surely be a high point on which to end an enjoyable and exciting season of singing under our inspirational leader, Christopher Cromar.

Soloists:

Christopher Bowen ¦ Tenor – Gerontius

Jessica Gillingwater ¦ Mezzo Soprano

Jamie W Hall ¦ Baritone

Tickets: £20 (Front) £18 (Rear); Students £10/£9

More details of this performance to follow

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Saturday 18th July 2020 7.00pm

Coventry Cathedral

1 Top Hill

COVENTRY

CV1 5AB

http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk

Past Events

Anniversary Concert – JS BACH Jesu, meine Freude; JS BACH Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 548); Bob CHILCOTT St John Passion;

Our Spring concert will be a performance of JS Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 the longest and most musically complex of Bach’s six motets, and Bob Chilcott’s St John Passion, setting words from St John’s Gospel in a dramatic retelling of the Passiontide story. The programme will also include JS Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 featuring Colin Druce on the organ.

Chilcott’s work combines 13th- and 17th-century English poetry with texts from the King James Bible and, as with Bach’s great Passion settings, the role of the Evangelist is taken by the tenor soloist. By including five well-known hymn texts set to new, original melodies, the work further confirms Chilcott’s status as one of the world’s most popular active choral composers.

Imogen Russell ¦ Soprano

Laurence Panter ¦ Tenor – Evangelist

William Haynes ¦ Baritone – Jesus

Ben Packer ¦ Baritone – Pilate

Please note: This concert will be led by Guest Conductor Paul Leddington Wright

4th April 2020 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

18th January 2020 10am-4pm

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

9 Beauchamp Ave

Leamington Spa

CV32 5RE

Come & Sing Mozart Coronation Mass

Come And Sing Mozart’s Coronation Mass with The Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir, conducted by Christopher Cromar and accompanied by Colin Druce on January 18th 2020 10.00am-4.00pm

Attendance for Singers is £20 including score hire.

Performance for family and friends at 3.30pm is £5.

Tea/coffee, cold drinks and cakes will be available, but please bring a packed lunch.

We wish to provide the best experience on the day, so if you require further information please email secretary@rlsbc.com

14th December 2019 3.00pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

A Bach Choir Christmas for All the Family

Get into the festive spirit with The Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and Kingsley School Choir as we perform a selection of heart-warming Christmas favourites, accompanied by a Brass Ensemble and Colin Druce on the organ.

This will be a family event, and we are delighted to welcome Children, Parents, Grandparents, Family and Friends to join us – and of course there will be plenty of opportunity to sing along with some of your favourite Christmas Carols.

ALL TICKETS £10 – CHILDREN FREE ADMITTANCE

Conducted by ¦ Christopher Cromar

Guest Choir ¦ Kingsley School Choir

Accompanied by ¦ Metropolitan Brass Ensemble

Organ ¦ Colin Druce

9th November 2019 7:30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Autumn Concert : Gabriel Fauré Requiem | Edward Elgar The Music Makers

The Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir will present two popular late 19th / early 20th century works in a concert sure to leave you with a dreamy feel of rest and consolation – Fauré Requiem in D Minor, Op.48 and Elgar’s The Music Makers, Op.69.

Conducted by Christopher Cromar

Soloists: Soprano ¦ Imogen Russell

Mezzo Soprano ¦ Hanna-Liisa Kirchin

Baritone ¦ Stuart Orme

Organ ¦ Colin Druce

14th September 2019 10.00am-5.00pm

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

9 Beauchamp Ave

Leamington Spa

CV32 5RE

Come and Sing event: Karl Jenkins ‘The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace’

September 14th Holy Trinity Church. Christopher Cromar directs Karl Jenkins, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.
10:00-5:00pm – Registration 9:30am – Tickets £20 including music hire.
Performance at 4:00pm for family & friends Tickets £5.

Accompanied by Colin Druce with Soprano Penny Homer

29th June 2019 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Classic FM presenter John Brunning’s Motets, Brunning ‘Amazing Day’ and Rutter ‘Feel The Spirit.’

We are joined for this performance by John Brunning, the composer of his ‘Amazing Day’ and 5 Motets. Also joining us is mezzo-soprano Melanie Marshall, who was John Rutter’s inspiration for his composition ‘Feel the Spirit’ and sang in the first performance at Carnegie Hall in 2001. Conducted by Christopher Cromar

30th March 2019 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Mozart‘s Requiem & Haydn’s Theresa Mass

The Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir will sing two masterworks from Mozart and Haydn with the Beauchamp Sinfonietta.
Conducted by Christopher Cromar and accompanied by Colin Druce.

Soloists:
Charlotte Richardson – Soprano
Felicity Buckland – Mezzosoprano
Christopher Bowen – Tenor
Miles Horner – Bass

19th January 2019 10.00am

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

9 Beauchamp Ave

Royal Leamington Spa

CV32 5RE

Mozart’s Requiem | Come and Sing

Come And Sing Mozart’s Requiem with The Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir, conducted by Christopher Cromar and accompanied by Colin Druce on January 19th 2019 10.00-4.00

Performance for family and friends at 3.30 with tickets at £3.

Participant bookings are £20 ( including score hire).

Teas and coffees will be available but please bring packed lunch.

Please email secretary@rlsbc.com to tell us which voice part you sing in and if you belong to a choir already, and also how many concert tickets you would like to reserve for friends and family. Or if you prefer to download the poster and fill it in to mail to the address on the poster, please feel free to do so.

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1st December 2018 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Christmas Concert

Bach: Christmas Oratorio

The Royal Leamington Bach Choir will perform parts 1, 2 & 3

accompanied by the Beauchamp Sinfonietta

Conductor – Nigel Stark

Soloists:

Soprano – Emily Dickens

Countertenor – Robert Cross

Tenor – William Wallace

Baritone – Julian Chou-Lambert

23rd June 2018 7.30pm

NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL

Sandy Ln, Blackdown,

Leamington Spa

CV32 6RD

Summer Concert

Opera Gala: Carmen & Faust choruses

The Royal Leamington Bach Choir perform with Soloists

Conductor – Nigel Stark

Alinka Kozari: soprano

Felicity Buckland: mezzo-soprano

Jonathan Cooke: tenor

Nicholas Morris: baritone

17th March 2018 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Spring Concert

Haydn | The Creation

The Royal Leamington Bach Choir perform with Beauchamp Sinfonietta & Solists

Conductor – Nigel Stark

Soprano – Emily Dickens

Tenor – Sam Dressel

Bass – Dingle Yandell

16th December 2017 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Christmas Concert

George Frideric Handel, The Messiah

The Royal Leamington Bach Choir & Solists

with orchestral ensemble and organ

Soprano – Wendy Whyte

Countertenor – Rob Cross

Tenor – Philip O’Connor

Bass – Jake Muffet

Organ – Colin Druce

Conductor – Nigel Stark

11th November 2017 7.30pm

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH

Priory Terrace

Royal Leamington Spa

CV31 1AA

Autumn Concert

Zoltán Kodály, Missa Brevis

Joseph Jongen, Mass for Choir and Organ

Antonín Tučapský, Five Lenten Motets

Organ – Colin Druce

Conductor – Nigel Stark

Soloists from the choir

Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (Manchester Performance)

Sunday 12th July 2020 7.30pm

Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (Coventry Cathedral)

Saturday 18th July 2020 7.00pm

Past Events

Anniversary Concert – JS BACH Jesu, meine Freude; JS BACH Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 548); Bob CHILCOTT St John Passion;

4th April 2020 7.30pm

18th January 2020 10am-4pm

Come & Sing Mozart Coronation Mass

14th December 2019 3.00pm

A Bach Choir Christmas for All the Family

9th November 2019 7:30pm

Autumn Concert : Gabriel Fauré Requiem | Edward Elgar The Music Makers

14th September 2019 10.00am-5.00pm

Come and Sing event: Karl Jenkins ‘The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace’

29th June 2019 7.30pm

Classic FM presenter John Brunning’s Motets, Brunning ‘Amazing Day’ and Rutter ‘Feel The Spirit.’

30th March 2019 7.30pm

Mozart‘s Requiem & Haydn’s Theresa Mass

19th January 2019 10.00am

Mozart’s Requiem | Come and Sing

1st December 2018 7.30pm

Christmas Concert

Bach: Christmas Oratorio

23rd June 2018 7.30pm

Summer Concert

Opera Gala: Carmen & Faust choruses

17th March 2018 7.30pm

Spring Concert

Haydn | The Creation

16th December 2017 7.30pm

Christmas Concert

11th November 2017 7.30pm

Autumn Concert

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