Past Performances

1946-Present

2026
Spring – Mendelssohn Elijah
Summer  – An Evening at the Opera.  Opera choruses from Handel to Puccini.

2025
Spring – Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, Puccini Messa di Gloria
Summer – Rutter Birthday Madrigals, Shearing Songs and Sonnets
Autumn – Rutter Requiem, Elgar The Spirit of England, Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

2024
Autumn – Haydn Nelson Mass, Cecilia McDowall Ave Maris Stella, Samuel Coleridge Taylor Lee Shore
Spring – Mozart Requiem, Caldara Magnificat, Wainwright-Johnston A Glimpse of the Light
Summer – Holst Choral Folksongs, Festival Choruses. Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs

2023
Autumn – Will Todd Mass in Blue
Spring – Haydn Creation
Summer – Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo + Ethan Mitchell Become Spring

2022
Verdi Requiem at Lichfield Cathedral
Fauré Requiem & Cantique and music by Lili Boulanger and César Franck

2021
Vivaldi Gloria
Ola Gjeilo Sunrise Mass

2020 -concerts cancelled due to Covid pandemic

2019
Dvorak Stabat Mater
Vaughan Williams: In Windsor Forest & various items (English Landscapes)
Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands & The Music Makers

2018
Mozart Mass in C minor
Summer concert: Copland ‘Old American Songs’, Rutter ‘Sprig of Thyme’ , Shearing ‘Songs & Sonnets’
Haydn Mass in Time of War + Remembrance Songs

2017
Mass in C – Beethoven (Joint concert 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. Beatusvir, Gardner’s 5 Hymns in popular style, Joubert’sThere 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 MesseSolonelle – 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 MesseSolonelle – 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
InEcclesiis – 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