(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.)
2011
November - Mendelssohn - 'Hymn of Praise' plus 5 Choral Classics (Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Elgar &
Parry)
July - German - 'Tom Jones'
April - Mozart - 'Requiem in D minor', 'Solemn Vespers',
'Ave Verum Corpus'
2010
November -
Durufle 'Requiem' & Gounod 'St Cecilia Mass
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, Truro 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'