Previous concerts

At the moment the table below lists all the concerts Frodsham & District Choral Society has performed.
We would like to add a
brief history to each of the concerts , but this takes time and we are still updating this information.

 

Original Compilation by Margaret Rogerson

Edited by Tilly Patel

First Published December 2005

Last Updated  June 2010

Year

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

2010

Come and Sing—Stainer’s Crucifixion
&
40th anniversary concert -Crowning Glories: Parry—I was Glad, Handel Zadok the priest, Elgar Coronation Ode, Rutter Gloria, Matt Baker’s Anthem Frodsham 800

 

 

 

2009

Celebrating Haydn: Nelson Mass, Te Deum, Excerpts from Creation

Curtain Up:
Opera Choruses and Songs from the Shows

Handel:
 Dettingen Te Deum

Mendelssohn:
 Hymn of Praise

& premiere
Anthem Frodsham 800  - We Live Here Still
 
by
Matt Baker & Andrew Rudd

Carol Concert 
Including Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah

See BBC website for more details

Click here to see the  poster

2008

Puccini:
Messa di Gloria,
Elgar:
Rossini:
 Stabat Mater

Feel the Spirit: Vaughan Willams: 5 English Folk Songs, Linden Lea, Virgin Cradle Song, Silent Noon. 6 studies in English Folk Song. John Rutter: Feel the Spirit. Gershwin: Preludes

French Choral Classics: Gounod: St Cecilia Mass, Ave Maria, Ave Verum:Saint- Saens:Ave Maria, Ave Verum: Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine

Handel:
Messiah

2007

Bach:
St Matthew Passion

Classical Jazz: Gloria: Vivaldi, Birthday Madrigals: Rutter, A Little Jazz Mass: Chilcott

Britten:
Rejoice in the Lamb
Vivaldi:
Gloria
 Kodaly:
 Missa Brevis

Carol Concert:
Christmas Pudding: Jonathan Willcocks

2006

Mozart@250
Schubert:
 Mass in G,
Mozart:
Requiem
and
 second concert
 Come & Sing
 Orff:
Carmina Burana

My Spirit Sang All Day: A selection from European Sacred Music, Part Songs and Madrigals and Tudor Anthems

Rutter: Magnificat
Jenkins:
The Armed Man Choral Suite

Handel:
Messiah

2005

Haydn:
Paukenmesse
 Handel:
 Dettingen te Deum

Choral Classics - Bogoroditsye Dyevo, Exulstate Justi,
Cantate Domino, The Bluebird, Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Vivaldi Stabat Mater

Te Deum: Andrew Carter, Mass of the Children;
John Rutter with Cantores Roboriensis

Carol Concert with St Laurence's Junior Choir

2004

Orff:
Carmina Burana
 2 pianos and percussion

Dvorak: Mass in D, Rutter Requiem

Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle

Handel:
Messiah

2003

Stainer's Crucifixion - Come and Sing day

Songs for a Summer Evening  Rutter:The Sprig of Thyme, Locus Iste, If Ye Love Me, Il est bel et Bon, The Silver Swan

Mendelssohn: Elijah - 100th Concert

Carols for Christmas

2002

Handel: Coronation Anthems, Bach: Jesu Meine Freude,
Vaughn Williams: Five Mystical Songs

 

Verdi: Requiem

Handel: Messiah

2001

Mozart: Requiem, Faure: Requiem

 

Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces: Andrew Carter: Benedicite

Carol Concert

2000

Vivaldi:Magnificat,Gloria  Rutter:  Gloria

Songs for a Summer Evening  Rutter:Folk Songs

 

Handel: Messiah

1999

Rutter: Magnificat, Bach: Magnificat,
Finzi: Lo the Full Final Sacrifice

 

Rossini: Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn: Hymn of Praise

Carol Concert with Solo instrumentals and Readings

1998

Haydn: Creation

 

Handel: Samson

Handel: Messiah

1997

Songs: Scarlatti, Beethoven, Mascagni,  Elgar, Moeran
 Gilbert and Sullivan,, Vaughn-Williams. Hiawatha (Excerpt)

 

Puccini: Messa di Gloria, Elgar: The Music Makers

Carol Concert

1996

Verdi: Nabucco - Silver Jubilee Concert

 

Dvorak: Mass in D, Faure: Requiem

Handel: Messiah

1995

Handel: Chandos Anthems 8 & 9,
Purcell: O Sing unto the Lord, Rejoice in the Lord Always

 

Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha

Carol Concert

1994

Mendelssohn: Elijah

 

Mendelssohn: Hymn of Praise, Vivaldi: Gloria,
Parry: Blest pair of Sirens

Handel: Messiah

1993

Dvorak: Stabat Mater, Handel: The King Shall Rejoice,
De Vittoria: O Quam Gloriosa,
Thiman: Sing Aloud with Gladness

 

Rossini:
Petite Messe Solennelle

Carol Concert with the choir of Frodsham C of E School
 conducted by Nigel James

1992

Beethoven: Mass in C, Brahms: Requiem

 

Rutter:
 Requiem,
 Magnificat,
 For the Beauty of the Earth,
The Lord Bless you and Keep You.

Handel: Messiah

1991

Elgar: Dream of Gerontius

 

Mozart Celebration :
 Requiem,
 Solemn Vespers,
Ave Verum,
 Alleluia

Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Excerpts), Carols

1990

Haydn: Creation

 

Bach:
 Magnificat,
 Faure:
 Requiem,
Finzi:
 Lo the Full Final Sacrifice

Handel: Messiah

1989

Bach: St John Passion

 

Mendelssohn:
Hymn of Praise,
Vivaldi:
Gloria

Carol Concert

1988

Verdi: Requiem

 

Rutter: Requiem,
Mozart: Ave Verum,
Mascagni:
 Rejoice that the Lord has Arisen,
Handel:
 The King Shall Rejoice

Handel: Messiah

1987

Verdi: Nabucco

 

Dvorak: Stabat Mater

Carol Concert

1986

Handel:
Judas Maccabeus

 

Coleridge-Taylor:
 Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
,Handel :
 Coronation Anthems,
 Parry: Blest pair of Sirens

Handel: Messiah

1985

Bach:
 St. Matthew Passion

 

Elgar:
The Music Makers,
 Faure:
Requiem

Carol Concert
with the choir of Frodsham C of E School
conducted by Sandra Green

1984

Mendelssohn:
 Elijah

 

Haydn:
Creation

Handel: Messiah

1983

Mendelssohn:
Hymn of Praise,
 Rossini:
Stabat Mater

 

Mozart:
Requiem,
 Faure:
 Requiem

Carol Concert

1982

Elgar:
Dream of Gerontius

 

Handel:
Messiah

Carol Concert with Overton C of E School

1981

Elgar:
The Kingdom

 

Vivaldi:
Gloria

Carol Concert

1980

Verdi:
 Requiem
with Wrexham Maelor Choir

 

Music to Remember

Handel: Messiah

1979

Verdi:
 Aida
with Wrexham Maelor Choir

 

Haydn:
 Creation - 1st Concert in St Laurence's Church

Carol Concert

1978

Mendelssohn:
Elijah

 

Elgar - The Music Makers;  Faure: Requiem;
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens

Carol Concert

1977

Elgar:
 Dream of Gerontius

 

Jubilee Concert: Mozart: Coronation Mass;
Handel: Zadok the Priest ;Parry: I Was Glad,
 Jerusalem; Vivaldi: Gloria

Carol Concert

1976

Mendelssohn:
Hymn of Praise,
Haydn:
 Nelson Mass

 

Handel: Messiah

Carol Concert

1975

Elgar: Bavarian Highlands, Seiber:Yugoslav Folk Songs,
Shanty Sequence, etc.

 

Autumn Concert of Sacred Music

Carol Concert

1974

Light Music:
Works by
 Aaron Copland,Purcell,
Binge, Foster,Stephan & The Pirates of Penzance

 

Handel: Messiah

Christmas Concert

1973

Spring Concert:
Music through the Ages

 

 

Mozart:
12th Mass,
 Haydn:
The Seasons,
Brahms, Elgar. Excerpts

Handel:
Messiah
& Carol Concert

1972

Songs: Merrie England & Spring Concert

 

 

Carol Concert

1971

Music Thro' the Ages

 

 

Christmas Concert

1970

 

 

 

Music for Christmas