Friday evening sees the return of the children of St John’s school choir joining forces with Bel Canto in a Christmas spectacular with music to please everyone from the shimmering sounds of Lauridsen in O Magnum Mysterium to the pure simplicity of Chilcott’s Midwinter. With audience carols, mulled wine, mince pies … Christmas is here!
St Margaret’s Church, Swinton
Friday 20th December 7.15pm
Diamond Jubilee Concert
Wentworth Church Saturday 9th June
The concert was well-received and went well, though we had some placement difficulty owing to access to the venue being limited before the event.
A fine venue though, and the Rotherham Advertiser correspondent wrote…“PARISH CHURCH: The first visit by Bel Canto choir to Wentworth was a resounding success. More than 200 people filled the central nave and were treated to a . fine presentation of jubilee music. Britten dominated the first half, Sullivan and Parry provided the bulk of a second half, of rather more popular and well-known items, before a Proms finale of Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory. In the rich acoustics of Wentworth’s fine church the choir were tight and disciplined, yet bursting with musicality, including some fine solos, justifying the hard work put into relearsals by David Barnard (MD) and Jonathan Gooing (organ). The music was interspersed with proper and improper readings by choir members and associates. The income goes to subsidise the costs of the choir’s major concerts. “
Sat 10 Dec 2011
Wassail with Bel Canto
St Margarets Swinton
Programme
Part 1
Choir Mirabile Dictu (Manning)
Welcome an Canon Barley
1st Reading Robert Godber
Choir In The Bleak Mid Winter (Darke)
Congregation: Once In Royal Davids City
2nd Reading Janice Lyons
Congregation: Hark The Herald Angels Sing
3rd Reading Paul Clerehugh
Choir Blessed Be The God And Father (Wesley)
INTERVAL (Wassail with Mulled Wine and mince pies )
Part II
Choir Children Go Where I Send Thee! (arr. Cladwell & Ivory)
4th Reading Julie Wilkinson
Choir This Little Babe (Godward)
– This Little Babe
– Natus est e Virgine
– These Are The Signs
– How Still We See Thee Lie
– So Shan A Time
– Wassail!
Congregation: Silent Night
Guest Speaker Robert Godber
Choir The Little Road To Bethlehem
Congregation: 0 Come All Ye Faithful
Choir Betelehemu (Nigerian Carol arr. Barrington Brooks)
Choir 0 Holy Night (Adam arr. Barnard)
Sat 15 Oct 2011
Autumn Concert
St Margaret’s Church, Swinton
Part 1
Bel Canto
Cantique de Jean Racine Op. 11 (Faure)
Requiem in D Minor Gp. 48 (Faure)
Part 2
Love Divine (Howard Goodall)
Rejoice In The Lamb Op. 30 (Britten)
Roland Wood
Have Some Madeira, M’Dear (Flanders & Swann)
Sarah Fox
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man (Kern)
Where Is The Life That Late I Led? (Porter)
So In Love (Porter)
Bel Canto
We’ll Gather Lilacs (Novello)
The Way You Look Tonight (Kern au. Mitchell)
The Rhythm of Life (Coleman)
Sat 21 May 2011
Sacred & Secular Works by British Composers
St Margarets Swinton
I Was Glad (Parry)
Canon Barley: Psalm 122
The Armed Man: Choral Suite (Karl Jenkins)
Interval
Part II
Blest Pair Of Sirens (Parry)
Dorothy Weaver: Introducing Mátyás Seiber
Yugoslav Folk Songs (Seiber)
Dorothy Weaver: Shakespeare Sonnet No. 18
Shall I Compare Thee (J. Haydn Parry)
Orpheus With His Lute (SSA)(Sullivan)
The Lost Chord (Sullivan)
The Long Day Closes (Sullivan)
