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2023

28 June 2023
A Rousing end to the 2022/23 Season with Viva Italia!
9 June 2023
Cathedral Visits - Summer 2023
12 May 2023
Simon Toyne appointed as our new Musical Director
20 March 2023
Dame Ethel Smyth Mass in D - A resounding success!
13 February 2023
The Ethel Smyth full score has arrived

2022

13 December 2022
Christmas 2022 Concert & Fundraising
1 October 2022
New Accompanist Announced
1 September 2022
2022/23 Season Launched
31 August 2022
2022/23 Season : Our Conductors
1 August 2022
2021/22 Season - Done!
30 July 2022
Another (!) Special Evensong
13 June 2022
Jubilee Proms - Staggering Success
30 May 2022
MD steps down after 15 years
29 May 2022
A Special Evensong
2 April 2022
Carmina in Style
1 March 2022
Song for Ukraine
21 February 2022
#22for22 Update
7 February 2022
The Armed Man

2021

16 December 2021
#22for22 is launched
4 December 2021
Christmas is Back! with a brassy bang!
6 November 2021
714 Days... Back in Concert
27 October 2021
660 Days... We're Back
4 October 2021
Annual General Meeting
1 August 2021
2021/22 Season Launched
7 June 2021
Expanding the Canon
18 May 2021
Live Singing started ... stopped
17 May 2021
Fridays and the Future
14 April 2021
Virtual Video
12 April 2021
Summer in the Alps
26 March 2021
Fridays at Four - Spring Done
9 March 2021
International Women's Day
22 February 2021
Cooking up a Feast
12 February 2021
Centenary Classics
11 January 2021
Classical Classics

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Concerto for Ten

2 November 2020

Following our summer recess social media success with #choralalphabet (see news item here), our Musical Director Lee put together a similar, though shorter, listening selection for last week’s half-term break.

In the concert hall (at least in “normal” times) almost all of the concerto performances that are heard are orchestra with either solo violin, solo cello, or solo piano, but there are huge numbers of superb concertos for all instruments. Our exploration of composers including Corelli and Vivaldi have brought forward a huge number of interesting works from that period, but Lee’s selection had an equal number of composers from the past and present, and an equal number of men and women represented, and even one which has a local connection for us in Northampton.

The list was called #concertoforten, to cover the ten days between the final Home Choir rehearsal with our friends at the Wellingborough Singers (Thursday 22 October) and our rehearsal tonight (Monday 2 November), though he did sneak a cheeky eleventh number in to give us something to give cheer.

Concerto for Ten

Day 1 : Bluegrass Trio
- Jennifer Higdon (b.1962)
Concerto 4-3

Day 2 : Flute - Kevin Puts (b.1972)
Flute Concerto

Day 3 : Harp - Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Harp Concertino

Day 4 : Trombone - George Walker (1922-2018)
Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra

Day 5 : Basset Clarinet - Elena Kats-Chernin (b.1957)
Ornamental Air

Day 6 : Double Bass - Gavin Bryars (b.1943)
Double Bass Concerto "Farewell to St Petersburg"

Day 7 : French Horn - Ruth Gipps (1921-99)
Horn Concerto

Day 8 : Harmonica - Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Harmonia Concerto

Day 9 : Marimba - Libby Larsen (b.1950)
Marimba Concerto: After Hampton

Day 10 : Viola - Toru Takemitsu (1930-96)
A String Around Autumn

Bonus Track : Bassoon - Maxime Goulet (b.1980)
A Bassoon Circus

Lee is putting together a new list for the Christmas break, a selection of Christmas works which are off the beaten-track, but should be much better known.