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Past Concerts

(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'

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