The Rushmoor Choir

 

Registered Charity No.: 276448

Concerts over the years—2000 and onwards

Rushmoor Choir - Concerts in the new millennium 

DATE

WORKS / CONCERTS

CONDUCTOR

OTHER NOTABLES

25/03/2000

Handel: Messiah (a charity concert in aid of the NSPCC and the Samantha Dickson Research Trust)

Nicholas Houghton

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

06/05/2000

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610.  Part of the Rushmoor Festival of Art and Local history

 
 James McKeon
 

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot, with period instruments

20/05/2000

A Proms Extravaganza

Nicholas Houghton

Charity Concert with various musical groups

28/05/2000 to 04/06/2000

 

Swedish Tour - Faure: Requiem, miscellaneous English church and light music

Nicholas Houghton / Mike Ford

Alvesta, Sweden

28/10/2000

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Britten: Ceremony of Carols

Nicholas Houghton

Organ - James Hearn

16/12/2000

Christmas Cracker Concert

Mike Ford

with Velmead Junior School Choir.  All Saints Garrison Church, Aldershot 

24/03/2001

Mozart: Mass in C minor, Ave Verum, Symphony nr. 29

Nicholas Houghton

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

16/06/2001

English Cathedral Music & European Folk Music 

Mike Ford 

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

17/11/2001

Faure - Requiem, Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine, Pergolesi - Magnificat

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

15/12/2001

Christmas Cracker Concert

Matthew Swann, Mike Ford

with Velmead Junior School Choir.  All Saints Garrison Church, Aldershot 

16/03/2002

 Haydn: Nelson Mass, Bruckner Motets, Bach – Double Violin Concerto

Matthew Swann

 St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

22/06/2002

Music influenced by Scotland

Celebration of 75 years of St Andrew's Church of Scotland

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

16/11/2002

Durufle - Requiem, Copland - In the beginning, Howells - Collegium Regale (Evening Service)

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

21/12/2002

Christmas Cracker Concert

Matthew Swann

All Saints Garrison Church, Aldershot 

08/03/2003

 Handel - Solomon

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

07/06/2003

Tallis - 0 Nata Lux; Byrd - Ave Verum Corpus; Gibbons - This is the Record of John; Purcell - Hear My Prayer; Handel - The King Shall Rejoice; Wesley -Blessed be the God and Father; Stanford - Beati Quorum Via; Bainton   - And I Saw a New Heaven;

Elgar -     Ave Verum Corpus; Howells - Collegium Regale - Evening Service; Britten -Festival te deum; Tavener - As One Who Has Slept

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

22/11/2003

Duruflé - Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens

Parry - Songs of Farewell

Vaughan Williams - Mass in G minor

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

20/12/2003

Christmas Cracker Concert

Mike Ford

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

27/03/2004

Mozart:  Requiem K 626

              Ave Verum Corpus K 618
              Laudate Dominum from Vesperea solennes de confessor K 339
              Tantum Ergo K 197 D Major

Matthew Swann

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

09/07/2004

International Festival Anniversary Concert, with our friends:

Sångkören Rösträtt from Alvesta, Sweden, Chór Cantabile from Sulechow, Poland and Musica Fortuna from Turnov, Czech Republic

 

Bernard Grupa, Sten-Roger Elmgren, Vita Capek, Mike Ford

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

20/11/2004

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, Ceremony of Carols; Monteverdi - Cantate Domino; Victoria - Ave Maria; Hassler - Dixit Maria; Brahms - Geistliches Lied; Bruckner - Ave  Maria, Locus Iste, Os Justi; Rachmaninov - Bogoroditse Dyevo

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

18/12/2004

Christmas Cracker Concert

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

12/03/2005

Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, Vivaldi - Magnificat

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

25/06/2005

Mayenziwe (South African Traditional),

Six Sephardic Folksongs - Ben-Haim ,

Geographical Fugue - Ernst Toch, The Lost Chord - Sullivan, The Goslings - Bridge,

Summer Time - Gershwin, Ain't Misbehaving - Fatz Waller, Blue Moon - Rodgers,

The Continental - Con Conrad, I Got Rhythm -  Gershwin, Let's Do It - Cole Porter, Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

19/11/2005

John Tavener – The Lamb,  Song for Athene

Charles Hubert Parry – Songs of Farewell (1 - 5)

César Franck – Prélude, Fugue and Variation – Organ

Beethoven – Ah Perfido, Scene and Aria - Soprano Solo

Home, Sweet Home – Henry Bishop, arr.Bob Chilcott

Londonderry Air – arr.Bob Chilcott

Irish Blessing – Bob Chilcott

Quick! We have but a second – arr. Charles V.Stanford

Bizet - Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante - Soprano Solo

Mozart - Ach ich liebte  - Soprano Solo

Francis Poulenc  – Gloria

 

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot.

Richard Hills, Organ

Alice Woodbridge  –  Soprano

 

17/12/2005

Christmas Carol Concert

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

Richard Hills, Organ

 25/03/2006

 Vivaldi – Credo; Schubert – Mass in C Major; Handel – Dixit Dominus

 Benjamin Wolf

 St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

 Philippa Murray (Soprano); Leah Jackson (Mezzo Soprano); Anne Jones - (Contralto); Marc Finer (Tenor); Benjamin Seifert, (Baritone)

27/05/2006

“A magnificent musical mélange”

Le Chœur de Meudon presented extracts from Offenbach’s Operettas:

La Vie Parisienne, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, La Belle Hélène.

 

The Rushmoor Choir presented a selection of lighter music:

 

The Teddy Bears’ Picnic; I do like to be beside the seaside;

Home, Sweet home; The Goslings; Tequila Samba; Blue Moon;

The Continental; I got Rhythm; Let’s Do It; Summer Time;

Over the Rainbow

 

The combined choirs presented:

 

Faure’s ‘Cantique de Jean Racine’ and

from ‘Orphée aux Enfers’ - ‘Gloire à Jupiter’

 

 

Benjamin Wolf / André Robert

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot, with Le Choeur de Meudon.

 

Rachel GUILLOUX - Soprano

Florent DOMINGUEZ - Tenor

Rūta Lenčiauskaitė - Accompanist

 

 01/07/2006

 “The Light Transatlantic”

Four Madrigals:

Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis, John Wilbye Faire Phyllis I saw,  John Farmer

I love, alas & My bonny lass she smileth, Thomas Morley

I do like to be beside the seaside

The Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Tequila Samba, Blue Moon

Tea for Two, Let’s Do It                     

I got Rhythm, Summer TimeLong Time Ago, Ching-a-Ring Chaw

Sing ye Praises to Our King Four American Folksongs:

Yankee Doodle, Shenandoah, Shortnin’ Bread/Pick a bale o’ cotton

The streets of Laredo

Choral Medley from West Side Story                                                  

 Benjamin Wolf

 St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

Richard Hills, Organ

 25/11/2006

 “Music for Monarchs”

A selection of Madrigals

Hard by a Crystal Fountain

Hence Stars

Come, Blessed Bird

As Vesta Was

All Creatures Now

Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis

Faire Phyllis

I love, alas, I love thee

My bonny lass she smileth

 

Stanford – Three Latin Motets

Handel – Zadok the Priest

Elgar – Four Latin Motets

Britten – Choral Dances from Gloriana

Walton – Coronation Te Deum

 

 Benjamin Wolf

 St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

Richard Hills, Organ

17/12/2006

Christmas Carol Concert

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

 

24/03/2007

Including music by: Victoria, Monteverdi (Cantate Domino),

Palestrina, Schubert (Ave Maria),  Mendelssohn (Hear My Prayer),

Mozart (Ave Verum), Bach (Jesu, Joy of man’s Desiring),

Faure (excerpts from Requiem), and Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

 

09/06/2007

Joining in the celebration concert for the live of  Peter Mound, in aid of the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Parish Church, Farnham

 

20/06/2007

“Summer Light”; lighter music for the summer evening

Benjamin Wolf

St Andrew's Church of Scotland, Aldershot

 

02/07/2007 to

08/07/2007

Tour to Czech Republic

Benjamin Wolf

Prague and Turnov, Cz

 

17/11/2007

The Story of Oratorio

J S Bach : from Christmas Oratorio

Wie soll ich dich empfangen?, Brich an, o schönes,  Morgenlicht

 

Mendelssohn : Richte mich, Gott

Verleih uns Frieden, Sechs Sprüche, On Wings of Song,

choruses from  St Paul & Elijah

 

Sullivan: from Golden Legend, Evening Hymn, God sent his messenger, the rain              

Benjamin Wolf

 

15/12/2007

Christmas Carol Concert

Mike Ford

With St Peter’s CE (Aided) Junior School Choir

15/03/2008

Handel’s Messiah

Benjamin Wolf

 

28/06/2008

“Summer Rhapsody”; lighter music for the summer evening

Benjamin Wolf