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… The choir brought warmth and barely contained passion to it, evoking the beauty of the text exactly as it requires. Bath Chronicle, 10/2009

… Music to be remembered and treasured, performed by these gifted singers with style and artistry. Bath Chronicle

… a quite magnificent performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor.

… well nigh perfect … seamlessly, beautifully balanced and poised.

… a remarkable tour de force.

… The singers … slipped effortlessly between the centuries. Bath Chronicle

2008 Season

• Saturday 28 June St Peter’s Church, High Street, Marlborough • 7.30pm

  A Prospect of Marlborough

  Join us to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of a very special community venture. The programme is built around readings from and about Marlborough. The music will be mainly English and mainly secular: Sumer is i-cumen in (plus Ogden Nash’s inimitable parody Winter is i-cumen in), 16th-century madrigals, 19th-century art-songs and approachable contemporary works including Nicholas Brown’s Stillness, a highly imaginative reworking of John Wilbye’s Draw on sweet night. As a special tribute distributed through the programme will be contrasting settings of the Latin words Tu es Petrus, with music by Palestrina, Alessandro Scarlatti and Robert Pearsall – for lovers of Lay a garland this will be both familiar and a huge surprise!

  Free entry, retiring collection

• Friday 27 June St Nicholas Church, Winsley • 7.30pm

  A Prospect of Winsley

  A preview of the Marlborough concert, with different readings, in aid of Dorothy House and the Winsley Village Project.

  Tickets £6
  from 01225 721480 or 723090

• Saturday 11th October St John’s Church, South Parade, Bath • 7.30pm

  L’Homme Armé

  • Anon L’Homme armé
  • Guillaume Dufay Kyrie L’Homme armé
  • James MacMillan Invocations
  • Giacomo Carissimi Gloria L’Homme armé
  • GiovanniPerluigi da Palestrina Sanctus L’Homme armé
  • Nicholas Brown Four Marian Antiphons
  • Vic Nees Gloria
  • Josquin Desprez Agnus Dei L’Homme armé

  The medieval pop-song L’Homme armé has become well known as the inspiration behind Karl Jenkins’s popular The Armed Man. Explore with us the rich earlier heritage inspired by this tune from the period 1450-1700, when over 40 mass cycles were built on it. The concert includes movements from one of the earliest, one of the last, and two of the finest 16th-century examples. Also featured are three fascinating contemporary works by leading British choral composers of this century.

  Tickets £10, concessions £9
  from Bath Festivals Box Office • 01225 463362

• Saturday 13 December Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon • 7.30pm

  Christmas in Rio (… Bolivia, Mexico & Peru)

  In a truly sparkling beginning to the festive season, we continue our series of ever-popular Christmas concerts, this time exploring the exotic world of 17th-century South America. Think vibrant rhythms, colourful instrumentation and gorgeous tunes. The repertoire of colonial South America adapted the music of the Spanish and Portuguese baroque, and added its own special flavour. You will hear grand Venetian-style psalms, dancing villancicos and seductively simple songs, with striking instrumental colours and an array of exciting percussion. Glorious music to set the festive pulses racing!

  Faye Newton soprano, other soloists to be confirmed
  Bradford Baroque Band

  Tickets £16, concessions £15, subscriptions £14
  from Wiltshire Music Centre • 01225 860100