(A complete history of concerts performed since the foundation of the Choir in 1871 is held by the Secretary. The
following are details of concerts performed over the past 20 years which we hope you will find of interest. Orchestral or
instrumental works performed in concerts and the items in carol concerts are not shown.)
2010
June
- Vaughan Williams 'A Sea Symphony', Dyson 'Four songs for sailors', G&S 'HMS Pinafore' extracts,
H Wood 'Fantasia on British sea songs', Elgar 'Pomp & Circs No 1', Parry 'Jerusalem' (Two performances
with North Devon Choral Society including one in Barnstaple Pannier Market)
March - Faure 'Cantique de Jean Racine' & 'Requiem', Rossini 'Stabat Mater'
2009
December - Rutter 'Mass of the Children', 'When Icicles Hang', 'Feel the Spirit'
June - Handel 'Acis & Galatea'
March - Mozart 'Mass in C Minor', Haydn 'Nelson
Imperial Mass'
2008
November - Bizet 'Te Deum', Charpentier 'Messe
de Minuit pour Noel', Saint-Saens 'Christmas Oratorio'
July - Parry
'Pied Piper of Hamelin', Elgar 'Songs from the Bavarian Highlands', Coleridge Taylor 'Hiawatha's
Wedding Feast'
March
- Cherubini 'Requiem', Puccini 'Messa di Gloria'
2007
December -
Bach 'Christmas Oratorio'
May -
Orff 'Carmina Burana', Mendelssohn ' Die Erste Walpurgsinacht' (Two perfomances with North Devon Choral
Society & Stanborough Chorus including one in Barnstaple Pannier Market )
March
- Handel 'Messiah'
2006
November - Brahms 'Requiem' (sung in German)
July - Selection of choral classics plus Dvorak 'Mass
in D'
April - Elgar 'Dream
of Gerontius'
2005
November - Selection of opera choruses plus Puccini 'Messa di Gloria'
June - Selection of choral classics plus
Schubert 'Mass in G'
April/May
- V Williams 'Sea Symphony' (Two peformances with North Yorkshire Chorus including one
in Ripon Cathedral)
March -
Handel 'Messiah' (part II), Stainer 'Crucifixion'
2004
November - Poulenc 'Gloria',
Britten 'St Nicolas'
June
- Selection of choral classics
March
- Verdi 'Requiem' (Two performances with North Devon Choral Society & Stanborough Chorus including one in Barnstaple
Pannier Market)
2003
November - Schubert 'Mass in F' and setting of the 23rd Psalm
May - Selection of choral classics plus Vivaldi
'Gloria in D major'
March
- Selection of Rutter music plus Rutter 'Requiem'
2002
November - Mendelssohn 'Elijah'
June - Selection of choral classics (music appropriate
for the Royal Golden Jubilee celebrations)
March - Dvorak 'Stabat Mater'
2001
November - Haydn 'Creation'
July - Selection of choral classics plus Carter
'Benedicite' (with a large chldren's choir)
March
- Elgar 'Music Makers'
2000
December - Mozart 'Requiem in D minor'
October/July - Berlioz 'Te Deum' (Two performances
with Croque Note from St Nazaire, France, including one in St Nazaire Church)
April - Faure
'Requiem', 'Cantique de Jean Racine' & Edwards 'Immortality'
1999
December
- 'Sing Noel' Carol concert
November - Brahms 'Requiem' (sung in German) plus a selection of opera choruses
June - V
Williams 'A Cotswold Romance'
May/March -
Vivaldi 'Gloria', Pitoni 'Cantate Domino', Correa 'O Vos Omnes', Rutter 'Praise ye the Lord'
(Three performances with the 'Gloria' performed twice in Caen, France)
1998
December -
'Sing Noel' Carol concert
November -
Beethoven 'Mass in C' plus 'A Calm Sea'
July
- Orff 'Carmina Burana' (performance with Truro Choral Society in Truro)
May - Elgar 'Dream of Gerontius' (with
Plymouth Philharmonic Choir)
April -
Stainer 'Crucifixion'
1997
December - 'Sing Noel' Carol concert
June - Dyson 'Canterbury Pilgrims'
March - Puccini 'Messa di Gloria', Skempton 'Two
poems of Edward Thomas'
1996
November - Handel 'Messiah'
June - Verdi 'Requiem' (with Plymouth Philharmonic Choir,
Trtue Choral Society and Harborne Singers)
March - Rutter 'Requiem', Wood 'Hail Gladdening Light', Tschesnokoff 'Let Thy Holy Spirit
come upon us'
1995
November - Mendelssohn 'Elijah'
June - Walton 'Belshazzar's Feast' (with Plymouth
Philharmonic Choir and Gloucester Choral Society)
March
- Bach 'St John Passion'
1994
December - 'Sing Noel' Carol concert
(with Devon Youth Orchestra)
November - Hydn 'The Creation'
June
- 'Midsummer Music' (excerpts from works by V Williams, Borodin, Gilbert & Sullivan'
& 'Les Miserables' - two performances in the area)
March - Brahms 'Requiem' (sung in German)
1993
December - 'The Magic of Christmas' (Carol concert with the Band of HM Royal
Marines Commandos, Lympstone)
November - Haydn 'Nelson Mass', Britten 'St Nicolas'
June - 'Music for a Summer's Evening'
(various choral classics - two performances in the area)
March - 'Pomp & Circumstance' (Music for Royal occasions - celebrating
the Anniversary of the Queen's Accession to the Throne)
1992
December - 'The Torbay Christmas Cracker'
(Carol concert with children from local primary schools)
November - Elgar 'The Dream of Gerontius'
June - Orff 'Carmina Burana' (with chorus
excerpts from opera and operetta works)
March
- Stainer 'The Crucifixion', Faure 'Requiem'
1991
December -
'The Torbay Christmas Cracker' (Carol concer with children from local primary schools)
November - Beethoven 'Missa Solemnis Mass in
D'
June -
Verdi 'Requiem'
May -
Twining concert (Choral classics jointly with Helvoets Dameskoor Choir from Holland)
March - Vivaldi 'Gloria in D'