Past Performances

Thu, 18 Dec 2025

Programme

Gabriel’s Message (Trad.)
JOY TO THE WORLD (Handel)
A Brighter Light (Christopher Wood) 
Mary’s Lullaby (John Rutter)
Noel (Chris Tomlin)
Poulenc:  Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
            O Magnum Mysterium
            Quem Pastores
            Videntes Stellam
            Hodie Christus Natus Est
Prayer - Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
DECK THE HALL (Trad.)
Here we come a-Wassailing (Trad.)

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Pola and Wyle)
IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER (Holst)
Angels Singing Gloria (Bailey, Herbert, Redman and Upton)
Ding-Dong (Steve Lowe, ed. Rathbone)
Dormi dormi, bel bambini (Trad.)
Joy, Joy from Every Steeple (Jonathan Rathbone)
Orchestra: Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day
A Spaceman Came Travelling (Chris de Burgh)
Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson)
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)

Arrangements for Choir and Orchestra by Jonathan Rathbone
Audience carols in capitals

 

Sat, 1 Nov 2025

Conducted by Jonathan Rathbone
Accompanied by Leo Nicholson

Programme:
Thriller
Oh Death
Cold Blows the Wind
Bad Moon Rising
Moon over Bourbon Street
Blood Froze for a Penny
Dust to Dust
Soal Cake
All Souls' Night
For All the Saints
Give us the Wings of Faith
Remember Remember
Fyer Fyer my Hart
Firework
Rocket Man

Sun, 6 Jul 2025

Programme:
Jonathan Rathbone A Day at the Fair

Sat, 17 May 2025

Programme:
Dvorak Stabat Mater

Sat, 1 Mar 2025

Programme:
Purcell Music for a While
Handel Silent Worship
Handel Where'er you walk
Beethoven Adelaide
Schubert An die Musik
Schubert Ständchen
Fauré Après un rêve
Brahms Feldinsamkeit
Brahms O kühler Wald
Finzi Fear no more the heat of the sun
Quilter Weep you no more
Thiman Path to the Moon
Vaughan Williams Silent Noon
Grieg Sechs Sange (op48):  Gruß; Dereinst, Gedanke mein; Lauf der Welt; Die verschwiegene Nachtigall; Zur Rosenzeit; Ein Traum.

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

Baughan & Dudley Smith    Holy Child
Berlin    White Christmas
Bruckner    Ecce Sacerdos Magnus
Cohen, Leonard    Hallelujah (with Christmas words)
Herman    We Need a Little Christmas 
Piae cantiones    Gaudete
Jonathan Rathbone    Night of Wonder
[Dominican Republic carol]    Cantemos a Maria
[English traditional]    The Twelve Days of Christmas
[Traditional]    Down in Yon Forest
[Ukrainian Traditional]    Clear Stars Covered the Sky
[Ukrainian carol]    Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells)

Audience carols:
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Unto Us a Boy is Born
O Come All Ye Faithful 
 

Sat, 9 Nov 2024

 

Sat, 6 Jul 2024

Åhlén    Sommarpsalm
Earl Brown    If I Can Dream
Fauré    Cantique de Jean Racine
Mendelssohn    Be Not Afraid (Elijah)
Mendelssohn    O Come Everyone That Thirsteth (Elijah)
Jonathan Rathbone    A Better World is Possible
Sullivan (& Gilbert)    He is Ukrainian (adapted from HMS Pinafore)
[Spiritual]    Down by the Riverside
[Ukrainian National Anthem]    Shche ne vmerla Ukraina
 

Sat, 18 May 2024

 

Sat, 9 Mar 2024