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 5^th March 2022: 7.30 pm

Glossop Parish Church, SK13 7RU

The Pennine Singers at Gloucester Cathedral

Over the weekend of the 30^th to 31^st October 2021, The Pennine Singers visited Gloucester Cathedral, providing the choral element for Evensong on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons and Eucharist on Sunday morning.

It was a wonderful weekend; Gloucester was very welcoming – and appreciative of our singing!

The choir was directed by Liz Brocklehurst and Richard Brocklehurst was our accompanist.

A video recording of the Sunday Eucharist can be viewed on YouTube.

Music for Gloucester Cathedral

Saturday Evensong: 

Introit – Purcell: Thou knowest, Lord
Byrd: Preces and Responses
Gibbons: Short Service – Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Anthem – Victoria: O quam gloriosum

John Stanley: V...

Pastorale

A clebration of English song including music by
Rutter, Elgar, Finzi, Stanford, Vaughan Williams

Saturday, March 21^st – 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

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

Visiting choir, Tewkesbury Abbey, April 2019

The Pennine Singers will visit Tewkesbury Abbey to sing the services over the weekend of Low Sunday (27^th and 28^th 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

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, 2^nd March, 7.30pm
St. Elisabeth’s Church, Reddish, SK5 6DJ

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, 30^th 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.

Feel the Spi...

Visiting choir, Coventry Cathedral, 2017

The Pennine Singers visited Coventry Cathedral to sing the services over the weekend of Low Sunday (22^nd and 23^rd 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

• Purcell – Magnificat
• Purcell – Nunc Dimittis
• Philips – Surgens Jesus

Maurice Duruflé – Requiem

Maurice Duruflé – Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op.  1

Francis Poulenc – Quatre Petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise

Oliver Messiaen – Le Banquet Celeste

Leon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique

Musical Director – Elizabeth Brocklehurst
Accompanist – Richard Brocklehurst

Saturday November 26th, 2016

Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL66 6QQ