2 December 2023

• Haydn – ‘Maria Theresa’ Mass
• Manfredini – Concerto for two trumpets
• Christmas carols by Darke, Rutter and Godfrey as well as carols with audience participation

25 March 2023

• Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
• Mozart – Ave Verum
• Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine

3 December 2022

• Vivaldi – Magnificat
• Bach – Cantata 62 Num Komm der Heiden Heiland
• Purcell – Coronation Anthem ‘O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song‘
• Handel – Concerto Grosso Op 3, No 1
• Festive music and carols with audience participation

21 May 2022

• Fauré – Requiem
• Vaughan Williams – Five Mystical Songs (Antiphon)
• Handel – Zadok the Priest
• Music by Purcell, Rutter, Britten and Goodall

4 December 2022

• Vivaldi – Gloria
• Corelli – Christmas Concerto
• Carols by Rutter, Mathias and Walford Davies, plus some seasonal favourites with audience participation

14 December 2019

• Handel – Coronation Anthems
• Bach – Wachet Auf (Sleepers, Awake!)
• Holst – Christmas Day
• O Holy Night, arranged by John Rutter, and Christmas carols with audience participation

23 March 2019

• Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle

8 December 2018

• Handel – Messiah Part I
• Zelenka – Magnificat
• The Christmas Song (chestnuts roasting on an open fire)
• Rutter – Nativity Carol
• Gardner – Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, plus Christmas carols with audience participation
• Congregational Christmas carols

17 March 2018

• Fauré – Requiem
• Leos Janacek – Our Father
• John Ireland – Greater Love Hath No Man
• Brahms – Requiem, How lovely are thy dwellings

9 December 2017

• Mozart – Coronation Mass
• JS Bach – Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
• Christmas carols by John Rutter and Philip Godfrey

16 June 2017 – Summer social event

• Popular and folk music arranged for soprano, alto, tenor and bass (SATB) voices

1 April 2017

• Dvorák – Mass in D
• Mascagni – Easter Hymn
• Mendelssohn – Hear My Prayer

17 December 2016

• Vivaldi – Gloria
• Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
• Carols from the choir and for audience participation

Summer 2016 – Summer social event

• Elbow – One Day Like This
• A couple of songs from the show Les Miserables
• Sondheim – Send in the Clowns
• Eric Idle (of Monty Python) – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

19 March 2016

• Mendelssohn – Elijah

5 December 2015

• Britten – St Nicolas
• Handel – Let Thy Hand be Strengthened
• Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
• Carols from the choir and for audience participation

5 June 2015 – Summer social event

• Tallis – If ye love me
• Bernstein/Sondheim – Maria: song from West Side Story
• George and Ira Gershwyn, arranged by Christopher Clapham – I got rhythm: jazz standard
• Rodgers & Hammerstein – Climb ev’ry mountain: from The Sound of Music
• Thomas Aquinas – Angelicus: words set by Cesar FranckPanis
• Frank Lambert – She is far from the land: 1920s Irish republican ballad, arranged by Philip Godfrey
• The Best of Bond: choral medley of James Bond theme songs arranged by Ned Ginsburg

28 March 2015

• Handel – Messiah (parts 2 and 3)

6 December 2014

• Puccini – Messa di Gloria
• Borodin’s Prince Igor – Polovtsian Dances
• Verdi – opera Il forza del destino, performed by orchestra

13 June 2014 – Summer social event

• Abba – The Winner Takes it All
• Bill Withers – Lean on Me
• Bob Chilcott – Like a singing bird
• Robert Burn – My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose to a well-known tune is mashed up with an original setting of A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
• Morten Lauridsen – Sure on This Shining Night: poem by James Agee
• Ralph McTell – Streets of London

29 March 2014

• Mozart- Requiem
• Haydn – Insanae et Vanae Curae

14 December 2013

• Rutter – Feel The Spirit
• Finzi – In Terra Pax

Summer 2013 – Summer social event

• Rutter – For the Beauty of the Earth
• Samuel Palmer- Sure on this Shining Night
• Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat
• Funiculi, Funicula
• Dynamite

23 March 2013

• Bach – St John Passion accompanied by the Linden Baroque orchestra

15 December 2012

• Poulenc – Gloria
• Bruckner – Te Deum
• Christmas carols

Summer 2012 – Summer social event

• The Bear Necessities, What a Wonderful World, Shenandoah, an Oklahoma! medley and
• I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside

17 March 2012

• Vaughan William – Toward the Unknown Region, a setting of a poem from Walt Whitman’s poetry sequence Leaves of Grass
• Felix Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise, originally his choral 2nd Symphony, but here performed in a shortened, purely vocal version

10 December 2011

• Haydn – “Nelson” Mass
• Philip Godfrey – Song of the Ship

Summer 2011 – Summer social event

• Fauré –  Cantique de Jean Racine
• George Shearing – Come Live With me and Be My Love
• Mark Denza – Neighbours
• Bacharach and David – Close to You by

26 March 2011

• Fauré – Requiem
• Pergolesi – Magnificat
• Percy Grainger – The Gipsy’s Wedding Day and Seventeen Come Sunday

4 December 2010

• Bob Chilcott – Jubilate
• John Rutter – Te Deum
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Hodie christus natus est
• Bruckner – Ecce Sacerdos
• Carols and Christmas songs

Summer 2010 Summer social event

• The Panther and The Firefly – poems by Ogden Nash set to music by Eric Whitacre
• Yo Le Canto Todo El Dia: (“I sing to him all day”) – written by David L Brunner
• Bohemian Rhapsody – Freddie Mercury’s song shortened into an SATB arrangement
• Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen’s
• Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen

Spring 2010

• Brahms – German Requiem

Autumn 2009

• Elgar – Spirit of England
• Philip Godfrey – Christmas Cantata

Summer 2009

• Pastyme With Good Companye (c 1510) – a part song composed by Henry VIII
• Now is the Month of Maying (1595) – a five-part madrigal by Thomas Morley
• The Blue Bird (c 1900)- composed part song by Charles Stanford to words from Mary Coleridge
• Blue Moon (1934) – Rodgers and Hart standard, in a choral arrangement
• Siya Hamba (c. 1950) – arrangement of a gospel song in the Zulu language Xhosa
• Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight (1954) – Carter and Hudson
• Mamma Mia (1975) – Abba

Spring 2009

• Orff – Carmina Burana

Autumn 2008

• Haydn – Te Deum
• Vaughn Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
• Górecki – Totus Tuus
• Carols

Summer 2008

• mix of short pieces from an Elizabethan motet to a King’s Singers version of a pop song

Spring 2008

• Finzi – Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice
• Mark Denza – directed Rutter’s song cycle Psalmfest

Autumn 2007

• Handel – Messiah (part 1)
• Buxtehude – Das Neugeborne Kindelein

Summer 2007

• Verdi Triumphal Scene from Aida
• setting of the Gershwins’ S’Wonderful
• Gilbert & Sullivan A British Tar from HMS Pinafore
• folksong setting, The Waters of Tyne

Spring 2007

• Vivaldi – Gloria

Autumn 2005

• Michael Tippett – “Five Spirituals” from Child of our Time
• Duruflé – Requiem.

Spring 2005

• Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
• Purcell – Come Ye Sons of Art

Autumn 2006

• Mozart – Requiem.

Spring 2006

• Vaughn Williams – Five Mystical Songs
• a Bach cantata

Autumn 2004

• Rutter – Gloria
• Vaughn Williams – Four folk songs

Spring 2004

• Handel – Messiah

Autumn 2003

• Schubert – Mass in C
• Christmas songs by Rutter, Warlock and others

Spring 2003

• Mozart – Coronation Mass and Ave Verum Corpus
• Mascagni – the Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana
• unaccompanied part songs by Elgar and Finzi

Autumn 2002

• Britten – St Nicholas
• Fauré – Cantique du Jean Racine
• Christmas music by John Taverner, including The Lamb

Spring 2002

• Handel – Zadok the Priest
• Poulenc – Gloria

Autumn 2001

• Charpentier – Messe de Minuit pour Noel
• Rutter – Five Childhood Lyrics

Spring 2001

• Janacek – Our Father
• Haydn – Little Organ Mass
• Brahms – Lieberslieder Waltzes

Autumn 2000

• Vivaldi – Magnificat
• Britten – A Ceremony of Christmas Carols

Spring 2000

• Bach – St Matthew Passion

Autumn 1999

• Britten – Choral Dances (from Gloriana)
• Haydn – Te Deum

Spring 1999

• Fauré – Requiem

Autumn 1998

• Handel – Ode On St Cecilia’s Day
• Poulenc – Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite Hodie Christus Natus Est

Summer 1998

• Haydn – The Creation

Autumn 1997

• Purcell – Ode To St Cecilia
• Finzi – In Terra Pax

Spring 1997

• Mozart – Requiem

Autumn 1996

• Handel – My Heart Is Indicting, Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
• Vaughn Williams – Fantasia On Christmas Carols

Spring 1996

• Orff – Carmina Burana

Autumn 1995

• Britten – Saint Nicolas

Spring 1995

• Purcell –  King Arthur

Autumn 1994

• Vivaldi – Gloria
• Carols

Spring 1994

• Phyllis
• Bateson – Farewell
• Rutter – Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind
• Finzi – My Spirit Sang All Day
• I Will Give My Love An Apple
• Shenandoah

Autumn 1993

• Bach –  Christmas Oratorio (Excerpts)
• Carols

Spring 1993

• Poulenc – Gloria

Autumn 1991

• Handel – Messiah (Excerpts)
• Carols

Summer 1990

• Purcell – Come Ye Sons Of Art
• Britten – Rejoice In The Lamb
• Handel = The King Shall Rejoice

Spring 1990

• Alis & Galatea

Autumn 1989

• Vivaldi – Gloria
• Carols

Summer 1989

• Summer Is Icumen In
• Morley – Sing We And Chant It
• Gibbons – The Silver Swan
• Morley – Now Is The Month Of Maying
• Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus
• Verdi – Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves
• Shenandoah
• Come To The Fair

Spring 1989

• Rutter – Requiem
• Gardner – Five Hymns In Popular Style

Summer 1988

• Vaughn Williams – Five Mystical Songs
• Bernstein – Chichester Psalms

Spring 1988

• Faure – Requiem

Autumn 1987

• The Way You Look Tonight
• Over The Rainbow
• Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
• Oh Why
• I’m On My Way
• Summertime
• I Can’t Sit Down

Autumn 1987

• Rutter/Grant- The Wind In The Willows
• Carols

Summer 1987

• Orff – Carmina Burana

Spring 1987

• Bizet – Carmen

Autumn 1986

• Handel – Messiah (Part 1)
• Britten – A Ceremony Of Carols

Summer 1986

•  Rossini – Petit Messe Solemnelle

Spring 1986

• Bach – St John Passion

Spring 1985

• Vivaldi – Magnificat

Spring 1984

• Durufle – Requiem
• Britten – Rejoice In The Lamb

Autumn 1983

• Handel –  Zadok The Priest,
• Handel – The King Shall Rejoice
• Handel – Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened

Spring 1983

• Monteverdi –  Beatus Vi
• Faure – Requiem

Autumn 1982

• Fanshawe – African Sanctus

Spring 1982

• Mozart – Coronation Mass

Autumn 1981

• Britten – Saint Nicolas