Concerts in 2017

The Best of Bath Music

Saturday 4th March 2017, St Swithin's Church, Bath

A half-hour programme of music in a charity concert arranged by Bathavon Rotary Club.

• Madrigals including Fair Phyllis, Weep, O Mine Eyes and The Silver Swan
• In Stiller Nacht - Johannes Brahms
• The Prince of Sleep - Edward Elgar
• The Long Day Closes - Arthur Sullivan
• Popular songs including Moon River, Blue Moon and Goodnight Sweetheart

Also performing in the event were Colerne Military Wives Choir and the Band of Avon Fire and Rescue Service.

Draw On, Sweet Night

Saturday 25th March 2017, Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon

• Draw on, Sweet Night - John Wilbye

• Calme des Nuits - Camille Saint-Saëns

• The Prince of Sleep - Edward Elgar

• The Long Day Closes - Arthur Sullivan

• In Stiller Nacht - Johannes Brahms

• Abendlied - Joseph Rheinberger

• Sure on this Shining Night - Samuel Barber

• Sleep - Eric Whitacre

• Birthday Madrigals - John Rutter

  • It was a Lover and His Lass

  • Draw on, Sweet Night

  • Come Live with Me

  • My True Love hath my Heart

  • When Daisies Pied

• Some Enchanted Evening - Rodgers & Hammerstein

• Blue Moon - Rodgers & Hart

• Goodnight Sweetheart - Calvin Carter & James Hudson

Charity concert in aid of Holy Trinity Church organ restoration fund.

Party in the City | Museums at Night

Friday 19th May 2017, The Roman Baths, Bath

A 25-minute selection from our repertoire, performed beside the Great Bath.

Music for a Summer Evening

Saturday 1st July 2017, St Swithin's Church, Bath

• Sumer is Icumen in – Anon

• A Summer Garland  - Alan Bullard

• As Torrents in Summer – Edward Elgar

• Draw on Sweet Night - John Wilbye

• Sure on the Shining Night – Samuel Barber

• Abendlied – Josef Rheinberger

• In Stiller Nacht – Johannes Brahms

• Sommerlied – Robert Schumann

• Summer is gone - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

• Some Enchanted Evening – Rodgers & Hammerstein

• Birthday Madrigals – John Rutter

Charity concert in aid of Bath and North East Somerset Carers' Centre 

Ikons - Music of the Russian Orthodox Liturgy

Saturday 28th October 2017, Prior Park College Chapel, Bath

• Sviati Bozhe opus 52 - Piotr I Tchaikovsky
• Tybe Poyem - Dmitri S Bortniansky
• Cherubic Hymn - Dmitri S Bortniansky
• Cherubic Hymn - Mikhail I Glinka
• Inclina Domine - Anton S Arensky
• Otche Nash - Anton S Arensky
• Otche Nash - Sergei V Rachmaninov
• Pater Noster - Igor F Stravinsky
• Ave Maria - Igor F Stravinsky
• Bogoroditsye Dyevo - Sergei V Rachmaninov
• The Beatitudes - Arvo Pärt
• From Nine Sacred Pieces - Piotr I Tchaikovsky
  • No 5 Dostoino Yest
  • No 1 Cherubic Hymn
• From The Liturgy of St John Chrystostum, opus 41- Piotr I Tchaikovsky
  • No 10 Tybe Poyem
  • No 11 Dostoino Yest
• Bogoroditsye Dyevo - Arvo Pärt
• Tybe Poyem - Dmitri S Bortniansky

Charity concert in aid of Prior Park College Chapel Appeal

A Celebration of Christmas

Thursday 21st December 2017, Church of Our Lady and St Alphege, Bath

• O Come, O Come Immanuel - arr John Rutter
• Adam Lay Ybounden - Philip Ledger
• The Angel Gabriel - arr Malcolm Archer
• Ave Maria - Igor Stravinsky
• Es ist ein Ros’ enstprungen - arr Donald Cashmore
• Bogoroditsye Dyevo - Arvo Pärt
• Mid-winter - Bob Chilcott
• The Lamb - John Tavener
• Ding Dong Merrily on High - arr Charles Wood
• My Guardian Angel - Judith Weir
• Four carols arr Ola Gjeilo
  • Away in a Manger
  • The Holly and the Ivy
  • Coventry Carol
  • The First Nowell
• Sir Christèmas* - Patrick Williams

* World premiere