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17 December 2024
A Rose has Sprung
A Christmas Celebration

25 January 2025
Come Sing With Us – Workshop Day
Chapel Royal Masters of the 17th Century

1 April 2025
Howells
Howells – An English Mass

8 July 2025
Gibbons 400
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Current Season of Events
2024-2025

Stephen Jones | conductor

Ivan Linford | organ

Tickets on the door | £15 
Student | £10, Under-12s free

A Rose has Sprung

A Christmas Celebration

Tuesday 17 December 2024

6:00pm Wine & Mince Pies
6:30pm Concert
St Mary-at-Hill, Lovat Lane, London ECR 8EE

Our programme this year centres around Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, set by Praetorius, and explores other composers’ settings on a similar theme. These gentle items are interspersed with celebratory and joyful pieces across the ages by Sweelinck, Mendelssohn, Bob Chilcott, Leighton, and even antiphonal music by Handl (without an ‘e’) across the church! The audience will need their singing hats on for Carols and we are delighted to be premiering a new piece by Samuel Wilson.

Guaranteed to get you into the Christmas spirit!

Praetorius | Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Handl | Resonet in laudibus
McDowall | There is no rose
Leighton | Lully lulla
Sweelinck | Hodie Christus natus est
Gibbons | Song 46 ‘Christmas Day’
Briggs | A tender shoot
Bullard | Scots nativity
Chilcott | Gaudete
Stanford | A carol for Christmas
Wilson | Westward leading
Mendelssohn | Frohlocket, ihr
 Völker auf Erden

 There will be a charity collection for Veterans’ Growth ‘improving veterans’ mental health through horticulture.   veteransgrowth.org 

Saturday 25 January 2025

Come and Sing With Us Workshop

Chapel Royal Masters of the 17th Century

10am-5pm 
Saturday 25 January 2025
St Mary-at-Hill, Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EE

Stephen Jones Workshop leader and director of City Chamber Choir
 
Works by Gibbons, Ramsey, Dering and Purcell
 
Are you an amateur singer: who would like to explore choral masterpieces? learn about their historical and musical contexts? brush up on singing technique with a vocal expert? have a fun day with a friendly group of singers in a beautiful Wren church? Then this is for you!

Ticket + Printed music booklet | £38.50
Ticket  | £35 
Under-12s free

Spring Concert: Howells – An English Mass

7:30pm Tuesday 1 April 2025

Holy Sepulchre London, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DQ

Tickets on the door | £25 
Early Bird until 10-March-25 | £22
Student | £10
Under-12s free

Summer Concert: Gibbons 400

7pm Tuesday 8 July 2025

St Vedast alias Foster, 6 Foster Lane, London EC2V 6HH

Tickets on the door | £20 
Early Bird until 24-June-25 | £17
Student | £10
Under-12s free

Recent Events

Tickets on the door | £20 
Early Bird Discount until 25-Oct-24 | £17
Student | £10
Under-12s free

Edwardian Splendour

Stanford | Eight Partsongs Op.119
Brahms | Fünf Gesänge Op.104
Parry | Dear Lord and Father 
Whitlock | Be still, my soul
Stanford | Fantasia & Toccata Op.57 
Ethel Smyth | Komm, süsser Tod
Stanford | For lo, I raise up Op.145

 City Chamber Choir commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the Irish composer, Charles Villiers Stanford, with a programme that is half secular, half sacred. There is plenty of Stanford, as you would expect, plus music by his great friend and colleague Parry, Brahms, by whom he was immensely influenced, and Percy Whitlock, one of his pupils, plus music by his contemporary, Ethel Smyth.


The Eight Partsongs op. 119 include Stanford’s famous The Blue Bird, the Brahms pieces are his last partsongs. Stanford’s op. 145 is a remarkable tour-de-force with a glorious organ part.

 

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