Wadham College Chapel Choir presents a sparkling programme of music for Epiphanytide. This concert will raise money to support the choir’s summer tour to Northern Ireland.

Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/wadham-college-chapel-choir

Programme:
Peter Warlock, Benedicamus Domino
Peter Warlock, Bethlehem Down
Luca Marenzio, Tribus Miraculis
Herbert Howells, Here is the Little Door
William Byrd, Reges Tharsis
John Eccard, When Mary to the Temple Went
Charles Marie Widor, Organ Symphony No. 7 in A minor: I. Moderato
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vidi Aquam
Richard Allain, Cana's Guest
Charles Wood, Nunc Dimittis
Herbert Sumsion, Fear not, O land
Philip Stopford, Do not be afriad
Henry Balfour Gardiner, Evening Hymn

Director: Hannah Zaki
Organ: Julian Littlewood

Wantage Choral Society’s annual Christmas concert, featuring Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols with a selection of traditional festive favourites.

Programme:
Britten, A Ceremony of Carols
i. Hodie Christus natus est
ii. Wolcum yole
iii. There is no rose
iva. That yongë child
ivb. Balulalow
v. As dew in Aprille
vi. This little babe
vii. Interlude
viii. In freezing winter night
ix. Spring Carol
x. Deo gracias
xi. Hodie Christus natus est
Percy Aldridge Grainger arr. David Stanhope, Shepherds’ Hey
Daniel Norcombe, arr. Jeff Atlas, With angel’s face and brightness
Leroy Anderson arr. David Kayser, Sleigh Ride
Arr. Willcocks, Unto us is born a son
Anon. Riu riu chiu
Arr. Willcocks, See amid the winter’s snow
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Arr. Willcocks, O come, all ye faithful
Gardner, Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Arr. Willcocks, Hark! The Herald Angels sing
Arr. Wilberg, Ding dong merrily on high

Director: Hannah Zaki
Organist: Sebastian Thomson
Harpist: Aoife Miralles
Soprano: Ciara Williams
Soprano: Jessica Edgar
Baritone: Jack Redman
With a quintet of players from the Wantage Silver Band

The Reading Lunchtime Choir’s annual lunchtime Christmas concert, featuring festive favourites traditional and modern.

Programme:
Trad. Gaudete
Trad. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Trad. The holly and the ivy
Arr. Emerson, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Arr. Willcocks, God rest ue merry, gentlemen
Arr. Willcocks, Sussex Carol
Arr. DeCesare, Rockin’ around the Christmas tree
Trad. French, Il est né, le Divin Enfant
Trad. I saw three ships
Shakin’ Stevens, Merry Christmas, everyone
Arr. Sims, The Twelve Days of Christmas
Arr. Willcocks, O come, all ye faithful
Trad. We wish you a Merry Christmas

Director: Hannah Zaki
Accompanist: Carlos Li

Glass Ensemble presents its annual Christmas concert, featuring Malcolm Archer’s “Nowell! Nowell!”, a dynamic carol sequence for upper voices which combines ethereal Gregorian chant and charming folk melodies with a fresh, modern feel. Featured alongside a stunning selection of seasonal music by Rutter and Palestrina, with a sprinkling of well-loved traditional Christmas carols.

Programme:

Trad. Gaudete
Morales, O Magnum Mysterium
J. S. Bach, “Prepare thyself, Zion” from teh Christmas Oratorio
Trad. O Little Town of Bethlehem
Trad. Angels we have heard on high
Archer, Nowell! Nowell! A Carol Sequence for Upper Voices
i. Puer natus est nobis
ii. The Song of the Ship
iii. The blessed Son of God
iv. Out of your sleep
v. Gabriel’s Message does away
vi. Sion’s Daughter
vii. The Cherry Tree Carol
viii. The Endris Night
ix. Balulalow
x. Nowell! (Ben Jonson’s Carol)
xi. Puer natus est nobis
Trad. We three kings of Orient are
Palestrina, Alma redemptoris mater
Lieut. Colonel-Skinner, Stars are shining
Trad. O come, all ye faithful
Rutter, Angel’s Carol
Trad. O holy night
Monteverdi, Ave Maria
Rutter, Candlelight Carol
Trad. Hark! The Herald Angels sing
Trad. Joy to the world
Trad. We wish you a Merry Christmas

Director: Hannah Zaki
Accompanist: Carlos Li

Antiphon presents its annual Christmas concert, with sparkling festive music from across the centuries.

Programme:

Byrd, Rorate Caeli
Byrd, Vigilate
Palestrina, Canite Tuba
Clemens non Papa, Pastores Quidnam Vidistis
Philips, O Beatum et Sacronsanctum Diem
Hassler, Hodie Christus Natus Est
Clements, Gabriel’s Message
Poulenc, Hodie Christus Natus Est
Walton, Make we Joy now in this Fest
Howells, Regina Caeli
Howells, Spotless Rose
Pott, Balulalow
Warlock, Bethlehem Down
Tabakova, Good-will to Men and Peace on Earth

Director: Hannah Zaki

Glass Ensemble’s spring concert, “Visions”, presents a varied programme of sacred and secular works.

Programme:
Bob Chilcott, A Little Jazz Mass
Ola Gjeilo, Norhtern Lights
Arvo Pärt, Peace upon you, Jerusalem
Franz Biebl, Ave Maria
Arr. Cecil Sharp, Green bushes
Arr. Cecil Sharp, Crystal Spring
Arr. Cecil Sharp, O Waly Waly
Arr. Cecil Sharp, The Bold Fisherman
Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Sicut Cervus
Tomas Luis de Victoria, O Sacrum Convivium
John Rutter, For the beauty of the earth

Director: Hannah Towndrow

Wantage Choral Society presents its spring concert, featuring two iconic choral-orchestral works with professional orchestra and soloists.

Programme:
Fauré, Requiem
Duruflé, Requiem

Director: Hannah Towndrow

Antiphon presents a striking programme of music on the theme of “Exodus & Exile”, featuring a variety of stunning music from Tallis, Handel, Tippett and others.

Programme:
Michael Tippett, Go down Moses
William Byrd, Domine tu jurasti
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, By the Waters of Babylon
Peter Philips, Gaude Maria virgo
Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I & II
Handel, Highlights from Israel in Egypt:
- Now there arose a new kind over Egypt
- And the children of Israel sighed
- He gave them hailstones for rain
- He sent a thick darkness over all the land
- He smote all the firstborn of Egypt
- Egypt was glad when they departed
- Moses and the children of Israel
- I will sing unto the Lord

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Organ: Dónal McCann

Antiphon Chamber Choir presents its annual Christmas concert “Let the Heavens Rejoice”. Join us as we welcome in the festive season with Renaissance and Modern choral Christmas compositions by Howells, Byrd and Rutter. Guaranteed to have you leaving with a spring in your step!

Programme:

Byrd, Vigilate
Weir, Drop down, ye heavens, from above
Byrd, Laetentur coeli
Vaughan Williams, The Truth from Above
Hassler, Dixit Maria
Rutter, There is a flower
Sweelinck, Ecce virgo concipiet
Clements, Gabriel's Message
Palestrina, Ave Maris Stella
Sweelinck, Ab Oriente
Howells, Sing Lullaby
Kenneth Leighton, Lully lulla
Whitacre, Lux Arumque
Tabakova, Good-will to Men and Peace on Earth

Director: Hannah Towndrow

Glass Ensemble presents its winter concert, “A Spotless Rose”.

Programme:

Josquin des Prez, Alma redemptoris mater
Guerrero, Sancta et immaculata
Duruflé, Tota pulchra es
Vivaldi, Magnificat
Imogen Holst, As I sat under a holly tree
Various, A Selection of Christmas Carols

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Organist: Simon Dinsdale

Reading Lunchtime Choir’s annual lunchtime Christmas concert, featuring a selection of festive favourites, followed by refreshments.

Programme TBC.

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Accompanist: Carlos Li

“A Royal Celebration”, brought to you by Wantage Choral Society.

Programme:

Handel, Zadok the Priest
Handel, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Mozart, Coronation Mass

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Organist: Sebastian Thomson
Soprano: Helena Moore
Alto: Mia Serracino-Inglott
Tenor: Toshi Ogita
Bass: Jack Redman

Antiphon Chamber Choir presents A Voice from Heaven, our first tribute for Remembrance, featuring some of the very best Sixteenth and Twentieth Century choral music for the occasion. It is a varied and compelling programme which we hope you will find both moving and uplifting.

Programme:

Ramsey, How are the Mighty Fallen
Morley, Funeral Sentences
Bax, This Worldes Joie
Bach, Der Geist Hilft
Howells, Requiem
Bairstow, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Vaughan Williams, Valiant for Truth

Director: Hannah Towndrow

A double celebration: A commemoration of the Coronation of HM King Charles III and the 400th anniversary of the death of prolific 16th Century English composer, William Byrd.

Programme:

Handel, Zadok the Priest
Byrd, Mass for Five Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Paul Mealor, Coronation Kyrie
Howells, Gloria (Collegium Regale)
Panufnik, Coronation Sanctus
O'Regan, Coronation Agnus Dei
Byrd, O Lord, make thy Servant Charles
McDowall, O Lord, make thy Servant Elizabeth
Purcell, I Was Glad
Parry, I Was Glad

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Organist: Daniel Mathieson
Harpist: Aoife Miralles

Reading Lunchtime Choir present their summer concert at St Andrew’s Church, Sonning. Programme:

Macbeth Bain, Brother James’ Air
Howells, My eyes for beauty pine
Ouseley, From the rising of the sun
Vaughan Williams, Just as the tide was flowing
Rutter, Look at the world
Wood, Never weather-beaten sail
Morley, April is in my mistress’ face
Wood, View me, Lord
Vaughan Williams, The Call
Chilcott, Irish Blessing
Campion, Never weather-beaten sail

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Organist: Carlos Li

A choral journey from Lent to Ascension.

Programme:
Purcell, Hear my Prayer
Gibbons, Out of the Deep
Howells, Like as the Hart
Weelkes, Hosanna to the Son of David
Victoria, Tenebrae Responsories (Excerpts)
Leighton, Solus ad Victimam
Byrd, Haec Dies
Wood, This Joyful Eastertide
Stanford, Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
Scheidt, Surrexit Christus Hodie
Philips, Surgens Jesus
Sweelinck, Viri Galilaei
Vaughan Williams, O Clap your Hands
Philips, Ascendit Deus
Finzi, God is Gone Up

Director: Hannah Towndrow
Organist; Bartosz Thiede

Antiphon Chamber Choir presents an evening of sublime seasonal choral music.

Programme:
Macmillan, O Radiant Dawn
Sweelinck, Ab Oriente
Byrd, Rorate Caeli
Howells, Long, Long Ago
Palestrina, Canite Tuba
Howells, A Spotless Rose
Tallis, O Nata Lux
Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
Viadana, Exsultate Justi
Bednall, Alma Redemptoris Mater
arr. Pearsall, In Dulci Jubilo
Sweelinck, Hodie Christus Natus Est

Director: Hannah Towndrow

Putney Choral Society presents an evening of beautiful choral music, featuring Fauré’s Requiem, accompanied by organ and orchestra.

Programme:
Duruflé, Ubi caritas
Brahms, Geistliches Leid
Balfour Gardiner, Evening Hymn
Boulanger, Hymne au Soleil
Ravel, Trois Oiseaux du Paradis
Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine
Fauré, Requiem

Director: Jamie Powe
Organist: Hannah Towndrow

Newbury Chamber Choir presents Jommelli’s Requiem alongside a selection of beautiful choral music for Advent.

Programme:
arr. Willcocks, O come, o come, Emmanuel
arr. Vaughan Williams, The Truth from Above
arr. Willcocks, Angelus ad Virginem
arr. Andrew Carter, A Maiden most Gentle
arr. Willcocks, Gabriel’s Messge
Praetorius, Lo, how a Rose e’re Blooming
Ord, Adam lay Ybounden
arr. Willcocks, The Cherry Tree Carol
Poston, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Darke, In the Bleak Midwinter
Jommelli, Requiem

Director: Ben de Souza
Organist: Hannah Towndrow

Antiphon presents an evening of glorious music from the two Elizabethan ages.

Programme:
McKie, We wait for thy loving kindness
Gibbons, O clap your hands
Harris, Let my prayer come up
’The Triumps of Oriana’ - Selections:
- East, Hence stars to dim of light
- Wilbye, The Lady Oriana
- E. Gibbons, Long live fair Oriana
- Norcome, With Angel’s face and brightness
- Weelkes, As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending
Howells, Behold, O God our defender
Byrd, O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen
Tallis, Absterge Domine
Byrd, Non vos relinquam orphanos
Parry, I was glad

Director: Hannah Towndrow

Hannah’s MA Choral Conducting final recital, with singers from the Royal Academy of Music.

An evening of English choral music coupled with Vivaldi’s “Gloria” to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II.

Director: Aaron King
Organist: Hannah Towndrow

An evening of gorgeous choral music dedicated to the Virgin Mary, sung by Antiphon Chamber Choir.

Programme:
Victoria, Regina Caeli
Howells, Salve Regina
Rachmaninov, Bogoroditsye Devo
Philips, Gaude Maria Virgo
Ešenvalds, Magnificat
Pärt, “Ode II” from Triodion
Palestrina, Ave Maris Stella
Heredia, Magnificat Octavi Toni
Bednall, Ave Regina Caelorum

Conductor: Hannah Towndrow

A masterclass with Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers with MA Choral Conducting Students from the Royal Academy of Music.

A concert of music from the Italian convents of the Sixteenth Century with singers from the Royal Academy of Music.

Programme:
Rafaella Aleotti, Exurgat Deus
Claudia Rusca, Adoramus Te
Isabella Leonarda, Laetatus Sum
Maria Xaveria Perucona, Gaude, Plaude
Isabella Leonarda, Nisi Dominus
Rafaella Aleotti, Congregati Sunt Inimici Nostri
Caterina Assandra, Salve Regina
Claudia Rusca, Magnificat

Conductor: Olivia Shotton
Organist: Hannah Towndrow

A concert of music for upper voices, featuring a variety of biblical texts.

Programme:
Hildegard von Bingen, O Eterne Deus
Anon. Iam Nubes
Attr. Leonora d’Este, Tribulationes Civitatum Audivimus
McDowall, Ave Maria
Attr. Leonora d’Este, Sicut Lilium
Duruflé, Tota Pulchra Es
Attr. Leonora d’Este, Anguistie Mihi Sunt Undique
Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
Sulpitia Cesis, O Crux
Tavener, The Lord’s Prayer
Isabelle Leonarda, Ave Regina Caelorum
Gustav Holst, Ave Maria
Sulpitia Cesis, O Domine Jesu Christe
McDowall, Regina Caeli
Attr. Leonora d’Este, Haec Dies

Conductor: Jamie Powe
Organist: Hannah Towndrow

Antiphon returns to perform its first concert since the easing of lockdown restrictions, featuring a selection of stunning choral music.

Programme:
Harris, Bring Us, O Lord God
Gibbons, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Short Service)
Palestrina, Sicut Cervus
Purcell, Hear My Prayer, O Lord
Harris, Faire is the Heaven
Sumsion, One Thing Have I Desired of the Lord
Vaughan Williams, The Turtle Dove
Mendelssohn, Denn Er hat Seinen Engeln
Biebl, Ave Maria
Vaughan Williams, Valiant-For-Truth

Conductor: Hannah Towndrow