Please note: Handel’s ‘Messiah’ is performed annually the week before Christmas
2024
Mozart’s Requiem, Antonio Caldara’s Magnificat and Rory Wainwright-Johnston’s A glimpse of the Light
Summer concert – Holst: Choral Folksongs; Festival Choruses. Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
2023
Will Todd’s Mass in Blue & Bob Chilcott’s Singing by Numbers
Haydn Creation
Summer Concert Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo by Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz and Become Spring by Ethan Mitchell
2022
Verdi Requiem at Lichfield Cathedral
Fauré Requiem and Cantique & music by Lili Boulanger and César Franck
2021
Vivaldi: Gloria and Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
2020
All concerts cancelled due to the Covid pandemic
2019
Elgar: from the Bavarian Highlands(6 Songs) & The Music Makers
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Summer Concert – ENGLISH LANDSCAPES: Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest’ and miscellaneous traditional songs
2018
Haydn: Mass in Time of War + songs of Remembrance from Parry, Ireland, Elgar
Mozart Mass in C Minor
Summer Concert: Shearing Songs & Sonnets;Copland Old American Songs; Rutter Sprig of Thyme
2017
Mass in C – Beethoven (with Stafford Sinfonia)
70th Anniversary concert – Lichfield Cathedral:
Dream of Gerontius – Elgar
2016
Mass in Blue – Will Todd
Requiem – Duruflé
2015
The Manchester Carols – Music by Sasha Johnson Manning, (Words by Carol Ann Duffy – Poet Laureate)
Elijah – Mendelssohn
2014
Popular Opera choruses
Feel the Spirit – Rutter
Requiem – Fauré
Magnificat – Rutter
2013
A selection of Choral works on the theme of ‘Voices & Brass’ with the Vision Brass Group (including. Beatus vir, Gardner’s 5 Hymns in popular style, Joubert’s There is no Rose & many more)
A section from Completus—Kerry Milan (local composer)
Coronation Mass—Mozart
Nelson Mass—Haydn
2012
Programme of advent music
A Christmas Cantata—Geoffrey Bush
Music from the Shows – West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof & Les Miserables
2011
Requiem Mass in C minor—Cherubini
Crucifixion – Stainer
English & European Choral Music
2010
Gloria – Vivaldi
Requiem – Mozart
Orchestra – Serenade for Strings – Elgar
Spring Concert of Renaissance Music
2009
Organ Concerto – Poulenc
5 Hymns in Popular Style – Gardner
St Nicholas Cantata – Britten
In the Mood – classic popular songs & opera choruses
2008
Creation Mass – Haydn
Coronation Anthems – Handel
A Spring in the Step – an evening of music & poetry
relating to Spring, with St Patrick’s Primary School choir
2007
Mass in Time of War – Haydn
Requiem – Rutter
Diamond Jubilee Concert in Lichfield Cathedral:
The Music Makers – Elgar
A Sea Symphony – Vaughan Williams
2006
An Evening of Music for all Tastes
Magnificats – J S Bach, J C Bach, C P E Bach
2005
Petite Messe Solonelle – Rossini
Rio Grande – Constant Lambert
European Sacred Music & Songs from the Shows
2004
St Cecilia Mass – Gounod
Te Deum Laudamus – Purcell
Rejoice in the Lamb – Britten
2003
The Creation – Haydn
Requiem – Duruflé
2002
St. John Passion – Bach
The Music Makers – Elgar
Feel the Spirit – Rutter
2001
Symphony Hall, Birmingham with British Police Symphony Orchestra:
Polovtzian Dances – Borodin: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco – Verdi: Rule Britannia arr. Henry Wood: Jerusalem – Hubert Parry: Land of Hope & Glory – Elgar.
Stabat Mater – Rossini
Serenade to Music – Vaughan Williams
2000
Millennium Concert performed in Lichfield Cathedral:
Elijah – Mendelssohn
German Requiem – Brahms
Toward the Unknown Region – Vaughan Williams
1999
Mass in D – Dvořák
Requiem – Rutter
1998
The Creation – Haydn
1997
Golden Jubilee Concert performed in Lichfield Cathedral:
Requiem – Verdi
1996
Advent Music
1995
Requiem – Cherubini
Messa di Gloria – Puccini
Hiawatha’s Wedding – Coleridge Taylor
1994
Nelson Mass – Haydn
Coronation Mass – Mozart
Petite Messe Solonelle – Rossini
1993
Messiah – Handel
Purcell with Live Brass
1992
Gloria – Poulenc
Tempus Gratiae – Mike Revel (local composer)
1991
Te Deum – Dvořák
Mass in C – Beethoven
1990
The Dream of Gerontius – Elgar
Sleepers Wake – Bach
Mass in G – Schubert
Rejoice in the Lamb – Britten
1989
Mass in Time of War – Haydn
1988
Magnificat – Bach
St. Nicolas – Britten
1987
German Requiem – Brahms
Chichester Psalms – Bernstein
1986
Elijah – Mendelssohn
1985
Five Mystical Songs – Vaughan Williams
Sea Symphony – Vaughan Williams
1984
Requiem – Mozart
Messa di Gloria – Puccini
1983
Requiem – Fauré
The Kingdom – Elgar
1982
Mass in F minor – Bruckner
Sacred Pieces – Verdi
1981
Mass of Christ the King – Williamson
Serenade to Music – Vaughan Williams
1980
Benedicite – Vaughan Williams
Christmas Cantata – Bush
1979
Requiem – Verdi
1978
Dream of Gerontius – Elgar
1977
Elijah – Mendelssohn
1976
Missa Brevis – Kodály
Song of Destiny – Brahms
Stabat Mater – Rossini
1975
Christmas Oratorio – Bach
1974
Hodie – Vaughan Williams
Dies Natalis – Finzi
1973
Childhood of Christ – Berlioz
Dixit Dominus – Handel
In Ecclesiis – Gabrieli
Chichester Psalms – Bernstein
1972
Mass in C minor. – Mozart
King David- Honegger
Belshazzar’s Feast – Walton
1971
Mass in B minor – Bach
Carmina Burana – Orff
Matra Pictures – Kodály
1970
Requiem – Verdi
Utrecht Jubilate – Handel
David – Christopher Brown
1969
Samson – Handel
Gloria – Vivaldi
Symphony of Psalms – Stravinsky
1968
Creation – Haydn
The Music Makers – Elgar
Spring Symphony – Britten
1967
Nabucco – Verdi
Damnation of Faust – Berlioz
1966
Mass in C minor – Mozart
Messiah – Handel
1965
Pastoral – Bliss
Carmina Burana – Orff
Canterbury Pilgrims – Dyson
1964
Christmas Story – Schutz
Gloria – Poulenc
Elijah – Mendelssohn
1963
Messiah – Handel
Hymn of Jesus – Holst
Belshazzar’s Feast – Walton
1962
Te Deum – Dvořák
King David – Honegger
Hiawatha – Coleridge Taylor
1961
Bartered Bride – Smetana
Mass in B minor – Bach
1960
Requiem – Verdi
Seasons – Haydn
1959
Jephtha – Handel
From the Bavarian Highlands – Elgar
Sea Symphony – Vaughan Williams
1958
Messiah – Handel
Nabucco – Verdi
1957
In Terra Pax – Finzi
Magnificat – Bach
Samson – Handel
1956
Christmas Oratorio – Bach
Christmas Cantata – Bush
King Olaf – Elgar
1955
Hodie – Vaughan Williams
St. Nicholas – Britten
Elijah – Mendelssohn
1954
Messiah – Handel
Canterbury Pilgrims – Dyson
1953
Come Redeemer – Bach
St. Nicholas – Britten
Christ lay in Death’s Dark Prison – Bach
Hymn of Praise – Mendelssohn
1952
Messiah – Handel
Hymn to St. Cecilia – Britten
Five Tudor Portraits – Vaughan Williams
1951
Christmas Oratorio – Bach
Creation – Haydn
1950
Messiah – Handel
King Arthur – Purcell
Five Tudor Portraits – Vaughan Williams
1949
Messiah – Handel
Pastoral – Bliss
In Windsor Forest – Vaughan Williams
1948
Elijah – Mendelssohn
1947
Messiah – Handel
Elijah – Mendelssohn
1946
Messiah – Handel.
Creation – Haydn