Category Past Concerts
28 June 2023
Past Concerts
A selection of sung music through the ages
20 January 2022
Past Concerts
Pastorale
A celebration of English song
including music by
Rutter, Elgar, Finzi, Stanford,
Gibbons, Chilcott, Vaughan Williams
Musical Director: Elizabeth Brocklehurst
Accompanist: Richard Brocklehurst
Saturday 5th March 2022: 7.30 pm
Glossop Parish Church, SK13 7RU
1 September 2021
Past Concerts
15 January 2020
Past Concerts
Pastorale
A clebration of English song including music by
Rutter, Elgar, Finzi, Stanford, Vaughan Williams
Saturday, March 21st – 7.30 pm, Christ Church, Friezland,OL3 7LQ
Tickets £8 – proceeds to be shared between
Oshandi Trust and Christ Church, Friezland
Image of Ruskin’s view from Kirkby Lonsdale
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3 May 2019
Past Concerts
Summer Concert: Night & Day
Accompanist / organist: Richard Brocklehurst
Musical Director: Elizabeth Brocklehurst
Music including choral pieces by Lauridsen, Dove, Whitacre & Porter,
and organ works by Messiaen & Vierne.
Saturday June 29th, 7.30 pm
Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6QH
Interval refreshments Tickets on sale at the door
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29 January 2019
Cathedral Visits, Past Concerts
Visiting choir, Tewkesbury Abbey, April 2019
The Pennine Singers will visit Tewkesbury Abbey to sing the services over the weekend of Low Sunday (27th and 28th April), including Saturday Evensong, Sunday Sung Eucharist and Sunday Evensong.
Saturday Evensong
Setting: Dyson in D
Responses: Rose
Anthem: Sing ye to the Lord – Bairstow
Sunday Morning
Communion Setting: Darke in F
Motet: Surgens Jesu – Philips
Sunday Evensong
Introit: Abendleid – Rheinberger
Setting: Kelly in C Responses: Leighton
Anthem: Christ is Risen – Joubert
29 January 2019
Past Concerts
Britten and Bernstein
Celebrating the centenary of Bernstein’s birth, a concert of music by these contemporary composers.
Programme:
Te Deum in C Benjamin Britten
Jubilate in C Benjamin Britten
Rejoice in the Lamb Benjamin Britten
Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein
Choral Medley from ‘West Side Story’ Leonard Bernstein
arr. Len Thomas
Harp: Alice Kirwan Organist: JohnLeGrove
Musical Director: Elizabeth Brocklehurst
Saturday, 2nd March, 7.30pm
St. Elisabeth’s Church, Reddish, SK5 6DJ
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3 June 2017
Past Concerts
Feel the Spirit
Gospel, Folk and Swing
including
“Feel the Spirit” by John Rutter
featuring
The Pennine Singers, Richard Brocklehurst
Oldham Music Centre Adult Windband
Saturday, 30th September, 2017, 7.30 pm
Christ Church Friezland, OL3 7LQ
The heritage of the African-American spiritual has fired the imagination of composers, performers, and audiences for more than a hundred years. Each generation has produced interpretations of many kinds, yet, curiously, rather few composers have combined the resources of soloist, choir, and orchestra. John Rutter was inspired by the vocal artistry of Melanie Marshall to build a set of spirituals crafted to her personal style, partnered by choir, with the orchestra to supply an extra dimension of colour and emotional depth.
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11 January 2017
Cathedral Visits, Past Concerts
Visiting choir, Coventry Cathedral, 2017
The Pennine Singers visited Coventry Cathedral to sing the services over the weekend of Low Sunday (22nd and 23rd April), including Saturday Evensong, Sunday Sung Eucharist and Sunday Evensong.
Saturday Evensong
Introit: Haec Dies – Byrd
Responses: Smith (5 part)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Purcell in A minor
Anthem: Surgens Jesus – Philips
Sunday Sung Eucharist
Mass setting: Darke in E
Anthem: Ubi Caritas – Gjeilo
Sunday Evensong
Introit: Oculi omnium – Matthew Martin
Responses: Rose
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Howells St Paul’s Service
Anthem: Antiphon – Vaughan Williams
Recordings
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3 October 2016
Past Concerts