Quires and places where they sing
Choral concerts, opera and singing events in 2006

2007

Elgar     Sea pictures
The concert also includes Tchaikovsky's Symphony no.5

Panufnik      Song to the Virgin Mary
Handel        Dixit Dominus
the programme also includes Haydn's Symphonie concertante. and E J Moeran's Sinfonietta.

The Genius of Mozart: Prague 1791
Mozart     Requiem K.626
this concert, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of Mozart's baptism, takes works from the final year of Mozart's life. The concert also includes the overture to La Clemenza di Tito, and the Piano Concerto no.27   K.595 with Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

and in Eastbourne on 12 February

Johann Strauss Gala
the best of Viennese song and dance with waltzes, polkas, marches, and The Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus.

Mozart      Credo Mass in C, K.257
during the High Mass

Stephen Sondheim     Sweeney Todd
a musical thriller set in darkest London - an entertaining mix of comedy, murderous pasion and young love. The story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is regarded as Sondheim's greatest musical.

Lionel Bart's Oliver !
the Broadway musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, the story of an orphan boy sucked into the dark world of 18th century London streets.

Elgar      The Dream of Gerontius

The Dreaming
the hit musical specially written for the National Youth Music Theatre - hailed by Time Out as the 'best British musical by a mile".

Concert
the programme has a variety of works by Handel (Ombra mai fu), J S Bach (Air on the G string), Vivaldi, Gluck (Che faro senza Eurydice) and Mozart (Eine kleine Nachtmusik).

Concert

Mozart in the theatre
part of a BPO season celebrating the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with highlights from his four greatest operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte and The Magic Flute.

Johann Strauss Gala
the best of Viennese song and dance with waltzes, polkas, marches, and The Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus.

Copacabana
it's 1947 at the famous Cpoacana night club - the war is over, the boys are back, everybody ready to fall in love. The musical tells the story of Tony and Lola and the dastardly Rico.

Music by Ian White, words by Trevor Harvey and Ian White
Clippings
a musical set in and around a barbershop in the late 1960s. Clippings deals with many topics - love, marriage, alcoholism and gambling, whilst showing the power of friendship over all.

Both sides of Phil Collins
recreating the music of Phil Collins from Genesis through to his solo career.

Melodies for you

Cole Porter     Anything goes
one of the best-loved Broadway musical comedies - it's a shipboard romance full of mistaken identities and hilarious confusion, not to mention favourite songs like You're the top, I get a kick out of you and It's de-lovely . . . .

Lerner & Loewe     My Fair Lady
the sumptuous and romantic musical classic based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Stars of the future
a rich selection of arias, duets and scenes from opera

The National Opera Studio provides master courses for exceptionally talented young singers and repetiteurs from the six main UK opera companies.

Sketches of Spain
the concert will include the Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Naval Academy Girls' Choir
their varied repertoire includes sacred music, folk songs, patriotic numbers, popular songs and Broadway tunes

a 20th anniversary concert, including

Vivaldi      Gloria

St David's Day concert
a fund-raising concert for St Peters & St James Hospice

Sunday Serenade
an afternoon of all your favourite songs

Concert
100 strong ladies choir with an enjoyable mix of music - a concert given in aid of St Barnabas Hospice.

Workshop on Monteverdi's Vespers
a workshop directed by Nigel Perrin, followed at 5 pm by an informal concert.

From Rome to Madrid
the programme will include the Requiem by Victoria, works by Palestrina, and Allegri's Miserere

Concert

J S Bach     St John Passion

Lunchtime concert

School 4 lovers
a hip h'opera
an innovative adaptation of Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte. 18th century opera blends with 21st century hip-hop to create a new cultural fusion. The setting has changed too - no longer Naples, but an inner city estate. But the guys are still asking the same fundamental question - will she remain faithful while I'm away?

Sunday 19 March at 3 pm
Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne
tickets: 01323 412000 (Box office)

Mozart's Messiah
part of a BPO season celebrating the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - this is Mozart's arrangement of Handel's Messiah.

J S Bach     St John Passion
a sublime setting of the Passion story in a sequence of arias, chorales and dramatic crowd scenes. First performed on Good Friday in 1724 the St John Passion is a profound expression of Christian belief.

Concert
100 strong ladies choir with an enjoyable mix of music

Vivaldi     Gloria
Haydn       Mass in Time of War

Splendours of Portugal
ceremonial music of mourning and celebration

a concert of rich and sonorous Portuguese renaissance music for voices, organ and violone, including the Requiem by Frei Manuel Cardoso and polychoral motets by Joăo Lourenco Rebelo.

Handel      Israel in Egypt

Jazz Evening

Music for Passiontide
by candlelight

Rupert Holmes    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
first produced in 1986 when it won 5 Tony awards - The Mystery of Edwin Drood has been billed as "The Solve-It-Yourself Broadway Musical" it comes with a surprise ending.

Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson and Chris Parkinson
Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been leading figures in the folk revival since the early 1960s. Carthy's remarkable and influential career has been celebrated with an MBE and various BBC Radio 2 music awards including Folk singer of the Year 2005. He is one of the most admired and best loved figures in the movement and was the subject of a BBC documentary.  Norma, also awarded an MBE for services to English music and fellow recipient of BBC Radio 2 Awards, is one of the country's finest, most emotive singers.  Chris Parkinson plays traditional folk music of UK, Europe and beyond, also blues, rock & roll, and even a bit of jazz.

Spring concert

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Celebrity fund-raising concert
the evening will include a performance of Mozart's Requiem by the BREMF Singers and a sneak preview of the 2006 Early Music Festival, including an appearance by members of Red Priest.

A Musical Extravaganza
an evening of musical entertainment from Sussex based singers. Sarah Carpenter will sing songs from the first half of the 20th century and there will be the music from Amici Choir.

celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Mozart's birth

Eastern European Music
including

Handel      Messiah
the version in this concert will be the 1788 revision by Mozart.

Walton     Belshazzar's Feast

Puccini      Tosca
Julie Unwin takes the role of Tosca in Puccini's moving opera combining selfless love, a monstrous villain and dramatic deaths.

Concert

pre-performance talk in the Spotlight Room at 6.30 pm
(free, but reserve tickets in advance)

Janáček      Jenůfa
subtle layers of meaning in this tragedy bring the story of a rejected lover and murdered baby to a moving and optimistic ending.  Anne Mason plays the demanding role of the Kostelnička.

book & lyrics A P Herbert, music Vivian Ellis
Bless the Bride
It's 1870, on the eve of the Franco-Prussian war.  Lucy is about to be married, but her parents' plans are dashed by the arrival of French actor Pierre, as they fall in love at first sight and elope. The war intervenes, and there is much drama before they are re-united.  The musical brings back well-known songs This is my lovely day, I was never kissed before and Ma belle Marguerite.

Judy Cook
Living in Maryland, Judy has been on the road since the early 1990s, making her own the songs and ballads of traditional Americana and the British Isles. She   is respected on both sides of the Atlantic as both a singer and interpreter of traditional songs. Her repertoire has resulted in an array of entertaining and informative themed programmes welcomed by universities, historical societies, festivals, and folks wherever she goes.

Mozart    Requiem

Britten     War Requiem

J S Bach     St John Passion
to be sung in English and accompanied by Baroque instruments

Stainer      The Crucifixion
the audience is encouraged to join in the hymns, including God so loved the world and Fling wide the gates.

Elgar     The Music Makers
the programme will also include well-known opera choruses.  This is the Diamond Jubilee concert of the Mid Sussex Choir.

Spring concert
the concert will include J S Bach's Jesu, meine freude, Brahms' Geistliches lied and music by Monteverdi and others.

Vaughan Williams    Sinfonia Antartica
a majestic portrait of the Antarctic, with the chilling sound of wordless voices, developed from music originally written for the film Scott of the Antarctic.   The concert also features Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Foulds' Dynamic Triptych for piano and orchestra (with Howard Shelley, piano)

Haydn      Nelson Mass
Karl Jenkins     Requiem

Guys and Dolls
the musical

Mozart    Requiem

Annie
the musical tells the story of 11 year-old Annie, who has a miserable childhood in an orphanage until a millionaire businessman decides to offer a $50,000 reward to find Annie's real parents.  With classic songs including Tomorrow and You're never fully dressed without a smile.

The Magic of Broadway
songs from Cabaret, Blood brothers, Les Miserables, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and West Side Story.

In aid of the Nigel Porter unit for breast care at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

Feather Boy - the musical
family entertainment based on the award-winning novel by Nicky Singer and commissioned by the National Theatre, Feather Boy is the inspiring story of a young boy from a broken home who soars when he overcomes his classroom bully.  All the action is set in Brighton & Hove.

Puccini      Tosca
Julie Unwin takes the role of Tosca in Puccini's moving opera combining selfless love, a monstrous villain and dramatic deaths.

Stainer      Crucifixion

Mendelssohn      Elijah

Janáček      Jenůfa
subtle layers of meaning in this tragedy bring the story of a rejected lover and murdered baby to a moving and optimistic ending.  Anne Mason plays the demanding role of the Kostelnička.

Sir Arthur Somervell     The Passion of Christ

Rehearsal on Monday 10 April 7.15pm-9.15pm
Cradle Hill School, Lexden Road, Seaford

Run-through on 14 April at 5 pm
St Leonard's Church, Church Road, Seaford

An "almost instant"
Gounod     Messe Solennelle de S^te Cecile
come and sing, or come and listen - open to anyone who enjoys singing

All proceeds to Pakistan earthquake victims

Mostly Mozart
a concert to celebrate Mozart's 250th anniversary, including
Mozart     Mass in C minor KV427
a new edition of the Mass, completed by Robert D Levin and first performed at the Carnegie Hall, New York in January 2005.
The programme will also include Allegri's Miserere, Byrd's Ave Verum, Mozart's Ave Verum and his Vespers (KV 339)

Handel      Messiah

J S Bach     St John Passion

Bernstein      Chichester Psalms

Gounod      St Cecilia Mass

during the High Mass for Easter Day

Russian Sacred Hymns & Folk Songs
a professional a cappella male choir from St Petersburg

Gilbert & Sullivan     The Pirates of Penzance

An evening with 'Flanders & Swann'
amusing songs and monologues in a nostalgic revival of the wit of Michael Flanders and the music of Donald Swann - including sucg classic favourites as The Hippopotamus, The Income Tax Collector and The Gnu.

Spring concert
W A Mozart     Requiem
Gabriel Fauré    Requiem

Cole Porter     Kiss me Kate
musical based around a performance of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with well known numbers such as "Another opening, another show", "Too darned hot", "Wunderbar" and "Brush up your Shakespeare".

Sweet Charity
music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields
this bright and sophisticated musical follows the misadventures of guileless Charity Hope Valentine, as she tries to find true love.

Songs by Sullivan, and Barrack room ballads

Haydn     Maria Theresa Mass
Fauré      Requiem

The orchestra will also play Elgar's overture Cockaigne, and his setting of the National Anthem.

Encore! encore!
songs from productions over the last 10 years, including Oliver! Sweet Charity, Bugsy Malone and Copacabana ...

Concert

Sweet Charity
Cy Coleman’s musical is set in the 1960s, the story of Charity Hope Valentine, an eternal optimist and the unluckiest romantic in New York City. Songs include ‘If They Could See Me Now’, ‘Hey Big Spender’ and ‘Rhythm of Life’.

Choral Workshop
on Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle

The day includes vocal techniques and fun ideas to energise your voice, with vocal coach Margaret Humphrey Clark. Improve your singing and broaden your knowledge of one of Rossini's most popular choral works in the repertoire.

Journey Songs
a 100 strong choir guides you on a vocal voyage of rhythm and revelry.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Verdi      Otello

the programme includes

Spring concert
a range of music in this concert for Friends of Montargis (Crowborough's twin town)

Tuvan singing
The Tuvans, a South Siberian Turkic people, preserve what are arguably some of the world's oldest forms of music-making.

The Russian Republic of Tuva is a sparsely settled region of grasslands, forests, and mountain ridges, at the geographical centre of Asia, north of Mongolia and some 2500 miles east of Moscow.

The best known genre of Tuvan music, xöömei  or throat-singing, uses mimicked natural sounds that transform into music.

Schubert      Mass in C
during the Festival Eucharist

Rutter      Requiem
Parry     Blest pair of Sirens
the concert will also uinclude movements from Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

a Brighton Festival event

Fiddler on the roof
set in the small Russian village of Anatevka, the musical tells the story of everyday life for a poor community of Jews. Tevye is a dairyman, Golda is his wife and they have five daughters. Tradition dictates that the daughters will marry according to papa's choice, with the assistance of a matchmaker. But the daughters decide to break tradition and choose their own husbands, with results that are both hilarious and sad.

Godspell
music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

a Brighton Festival event

Lunchtime concert
sacred duets and solos from the baroque era

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Benjamin Britten     Noye's Fludde
a musical setting of the Chester miracle play about Noah and the great flood.

Brighton
01273 709709 (Dome box office)
a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Verdi      Macbeth

a performance "in the round" and sung in English.

Joseph Haydn      The Seasons
concert information

Concert
a fund-raising concert for the Martletts Hospice in Brighton

Grand concert
uplifting traditional and contemporary gospel music.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Sounds of History
a unique collection of original songs take a journey through the social history of Britain and Ireland

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

A Chorus Line
combining their singing, dancing and acting talents, students from Newlands School recreate this colourful Broadway musical.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Karl Jenkins       The Armed Man
Johannes Brahms      Liebeslieder Walzer

a Brighton Festival event

Zoltán Kodály     Missa brevis
László Heltay returns to Brighton to direct the chorus he founded for the Brighton Festival in 1968.  The orchestra extends this Hungarian concert with Liszt's Les Préludes, Kodály's Dances of Galanta and Bartók's suite from the 'danced pantomime' The Miraculous Mandarin.

a Brighton Festival event

Lunchtime concert

Lucy Crowe won a Kathleen Ferrier Award - she performs here a song recital including early works by Morley, Arne and Purcell, songs by Schubert and William Walton's A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table.

a Brighton Festival event

House of the Gods
a new chamber opera by Lynne Plowman, libretto Martin Riley
displaced Celtic gods in a seedy Docklands pub - the setting for black comedy and Gothic horror

Lunchtime concert
a rare chance to hear Spanish folk songs by Lorca, and also songs by Rodrigo and Fernando Soar.

1000 years of choral music
including
Allegri    Miserere
Palestrina     Mass
and works by Hildegard of Bingen, Handel, Duruflé and Stravinsky.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Stephen Sondheim     Sweeney Todd
a musical thriller telling of an unjustly exiled barber who returns to London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him. Todd’s thirst for blood, coupled with pie shop proprietor Mrs Lovett’s wicked mind, has the people of London lining up in droves for her mysterious new meat pies! Drama mixes with moments of dark humour.

Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus
     Chess
the musical tells a story based around the World Chess Championship, with the American champion defending his title against a new Russian challenger, meeting first in the Italian Tyrol and then in Bangkok.  Still within the Cold War period, chess is also both about politics and a metaphor for the game of love played off-stage.

Me and Marlene
Patricia Hartshorne takes a haunting and humorous look at the colourful life and songs of marlene Dietrich.
"Gets under the skin of Marlene Dietrich" The Stage.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Noel Coward and Cole Porter revisted
Rosemary Lydford and musical director Mike Carver return with more Coward and Porter.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

this concert will also be given
on Saturday 10 June at 7.30 pm
in St John-sub-Castro Church, Lewes

The Triumphs of Maximilian
music from the court of Maximilian the Great, including works by the greatest pan-European of the time, Josquin des Prés, alongside more Germanic composers such as Heinrich Isaac, Ludwig Senfl and Jacob Handl. The singers will be joined by a few unusual instruments.

a Brighton Festival event

Shostakovich      The Nose
the story of a pompous government official who wakes up to find his nose missing - Shostakovich's opera was written when he was only 20.  The absurd tale was based on a short satirical story by Nikolai Gogol.  Nine singers share out about 80 cameo parts.  Sung in English.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival event

Simunye
Simunye - a Zulu word meaning "we are one".  This is a collaboration between an Oxford a capella ensemble and a Soweto gospel choir, with a repertoire running from western sacred music to South African chant.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Verdi      Macbeth

a performance "in the round" and sung in English.

a Brighton Festival event

Schubert      Songs from plays & novels
Vaughan Williams     Songs of travel

Christopher Maltman was Cardiff Singer of the Year in 1997.

Mozart       Così fan tutte
a new production to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, directed by Nicholas Hytner and conducted by Ivan Fischer, sung in Italian with English supertitles.  Subtitled 'The School for Lovers', the opera includes some of Mozart's most exquisite music to explore the difference between reality and appearance as four young lovers discover the nature of true love.

a Brighton Festival event

Henry Purcell      The Fairy Queen
baroque and bawdy, the story is based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - this production combines opera, puppetry, dance and aerial acrobatics.

a Brighton Festival event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Musical Feast
five hours of music amid sideshows, a children's playground and fun for all the family - singing includes Nessun Dorma, Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory and La Bohème.

Johann Strauss II     Die Fledermaus
a revival of the 2003 Glyndebourne production, directed by Stephen Lawless and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, sung in a new English translation.   Opulence and sexual hypocrisy in fin de siecle Vienna - through a series of disguises and false identities the evening degenerates into farce, only reaching resolution at dawn.

Thomas Rösner conducts on 6, 9 June and 6, 15, 21 July.

Music for Maytime

Moments between sound
community choir with a concert of innovative contemporary choral music.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Musical Showtime
favourite songs from the musicals

Puccini      La Bohème
for one of the greatest operas ever written Opus 1 presents a young professional cast on the brink of international careers. With fantastic sets and costumes, an exciting chorus joined by local children and an orchestra it's a recipe for a perfect evening.

John Rutter     Requiem
Karl Jenkins      The Armed Man
a mass for peace

a Brighton Festival event

The orchestra will also be performing Bernstein's overture to Candide, and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Nicola Benedetti (violin).

a Brighton Festival event

David Friedman's
Listen to my heart
songs from one of America's great songwriters performed in a sophisticated theatrical revue.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Lunchtime recital

Music for a summer's evening
beautiful, intimate and sensuous Englsh choral music

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival event

The orchestra will also be performing Pärt's Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Takemitsu's Death and Resurrection, and its arrangement of Schubert's String Quartet "Death and the Maiden".

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

The Maiden and the Shepherd
an exploration of love and infidelity through songs and dance rhythms of Renaissance France and Spain.

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

a Brighton Festival event

John Tavener     Veil of the Temple
a synthesis of eastern and western musical styles underlies this theatrical event, described as "a transcendent, sensual and celebratory experience", first composed in 2003 as an all-night vigil for the Temple Church in London

Grand Opera Gala
a journey through opera from the well known and loved to lesser known but equally memorable music.

all proceeds go to The Sussex Beacon

Brighton
tickets: 01273 709709 (Dome box office)
a Brighton Festival Fringe event

An English Tea Concert
Parry     Songs of Farewell
Vaughan Williams     Mass in G minor
Finzi     Seven poems of Robert Bridges
afternoon tea will be available after this concert of 20th century English choral music.

tickets: 01273 709709 (Dome box office)

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

The Cuckoo Sings
chorus and band collaborate in a moving, ethereal choral piece about individuality, family and inclusion.

tickets: 01273 709709 (Dome box office)

a Brighton Festival Fringe event

Lunchtime recital

Concert

More tea, Vicar?
John Betjeman's England in words and music, with songs of Noel Coward, Richard Addinsell and Ivor Novello, plus wit, satire and poetry.

Pre-performance talk on Monday 5 June at 7 pm

Puccini    La Bohème
this moving and romantic opera tells the classic tale of love and loss in the streets of Paris.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Return to the Forbidden Planet
rock'n'roll musical comedy loosely bassed on Shakespeare's The Tempest.   The musical won the Olivier Award for Best Musical in 1990.

an Adur Festival event (information: 01273 263311)

Verdi    Rigoletto
set in the decadence of renaissance Italy, Verdi's opera weaves a web of seduction, intrigue and deceit.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

an Adur Festival event (information: 01273 263311)

an Adur Festival event (information: 01273 263311)

The Three Tenors of the Blues
an evening of blues and rhythm 'n' blues

Music at St Nicolas
choral and instrumental music from the mediæval period to the present day.

The Triumphs of Maximilian
music, both grand and ceremonial and more gently intimate, for voices and instruments, from the 16th century court of Maximilian the Great.

an Adur Festival event (information: 01273 263311)

Schola Cantorum
Christ's Hospital senior chamber choir joins forces with two children's choirs.

Britten     A Midsummer Night's Dream
a revival of the 2001 Glyndebourne production, directed by Sir Peter Hall and conducted by Ilan Volkov, sung in English.  Faithfully using Shakespeare's play, Benjamin Britten created lyrical music with a distinct musical personality for each of the three groups of characters - the fairies, the rustics and the Athenians.

Gala concert of popular classics
including
Vaughan Williams     Five Mystical Songs
and excerpts from Strauss      Die Fledermaus

Saturday Night Fever
the Bee Gees hit musical tells the story of a streetwise Brooklyn kid with a burning desire to make it big on the disco dance floor.

Lunchtime concert

Eine Kleine Summer Night Music
music and verse, and in celebration of Mozart's 250th anniversary a new choral arrangement of his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.   Other music includes Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Stephen Sondheim's Night Music.

Concert
of old, new, classic and popular songs

this choral concert is given to raise funds for the reconstruction of the 18th century Oldland Windmill, near Hassocks.

A Celebration of Music from the Movies
with Simon Callow and Sally Taylor as narrators, the evening brings highlights from films past and present.

A benefit concert for Macmillan Cancer Relief and the Royal Alexandra Hospital's Rockinghorse Appeal

Michael Finnissy     Favourite Poets (première)
Gabriel Fauré     Requiem
Michael Finnissy's new choral work has been commissioned by the Chanctonbury Chorus to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

a concert of Summer music

Songs from the shows
solo and choral arrangements of songs from West Side Story, Oliver, The Sound of Music and many more.  Bring a picnic from 7 pm, to enjoy before the concert.

a Candle-lit concert
the programme ranges from French song and spirituals toGreek dances

Mozart      Requiem
Aedan Kerney     A Life in Four Seasons (première)
Aedan Kerney's new piece has been specially commissioned by the Adur Festival for the gala concert.

Lionel Bart      Oliver!
the musical based on Dickens' Oliver Twist - unforgettable songs including Food, glorious food, As long as he needs me and Where is love.

Purcell     The Fairy Queen
a summer concert with chorus, soloists, orchestra, dancing, acting and a long picnic interval.

Haydn     The Creation

Vivaldi      Gloria

the opening concert of the 2006 Crawley Festival

Brahms     German Requiem
with Marie Vassiliou (soprano), Howard Wong (baritone)

the programme will also include Mozart's Symphony no.40 in G minor

Vaughan Williams     Cotswold Romance
John Rutter     Sprig of Thyme

Open air concert
a musical extravaganza which culminates in Tchaikovsky's rousing 1812 Overture, a Spitfire fly past and fireworks finale.

Rossini     Petit Messe Solennelle
first performed in Paris in 1864, Rossini's mass blends operatic grandeur and lyric beauty to create a noble contemplation of faith.
The concert will also include popular arias and choruses from the operas.