We are very excited to announce our concert programme for this season.
Please check back here regularly for further updates.
Gloria!
Saturday 16 November 2024, 7.30pm
St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
Celebratory Baroque masterpieces from the greatest composers of their age: Handel’s youthful Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s ever-popular Gloria, plus Bach’s joyful motet Lobet den Herrn and his dazzling Concerto for Violin and Oboe. With Noxwode Baroque on period instruments.
Violin: Conor Gricmanis
Oboe: Grace Scott Deuchar
Conductor: David Thomas
A babe is born
Thursday 12 December 2024, 6.00pm
Bicton Church, Shrewsbury
Friday 13 December 2024, 6.00pm
St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury
The story of Christmas through six centuries of music, with audience carols. Including music by Gibbons, Handel, Cornelius, Rutter and Kerensa Briggs.
Organ: Tony Pinel
Conductor: David Thomas
Rise up, my love
Saturday 15 March 2025, 7.30pm
St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
Musical settings of texts from the Song of Songs (also called the Song of Solomon), celebrating both human and divine love, this concert also marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina. A selection from his Canticum Canticorum will feature alongside music by his contemporaries Lassus, Victoria and Clemens non Papa, and contrasted with composers from the 20th and 21st centuries, including René Clausen, Ola Gjeilo and Eleanor Daley. This very special concert will conclude with David Bednall's Rise up, my love.
Organ: Tony Pinel
Conductor: David Thomas
Sure on this shining night
Saturday 31 May 2025, 7.00pm
Shrewsbury United Reformed Church
A restful secular programme on the theme of evening, night and sleep. Featuring Morten Lauridsen’s Nocturnes, Ēriks Ešenvalds' Only in sleep, partsongs by Brahms, Coleridge-Taylor and Britten, and madrigals by Wilbye, Ward and Ramsey.
Conductor: David Thomas
