Saturday 28th June 2025
St John's Church
Loughton
Essex IG10 1PD
at 7:30pm

Tickets £12.50 in advance via Ticketsource (£15 on the door). Children & full-time students under 25: FREE.

What sweeter music

In this lighter programme for our summer concert, music will feature sacred and secular works including Britten's Five Flower Songs, Rutter's Five Childhood lyrics and William Harris' setting of Faire is the heaven.

Programme also to include sacred and secular works by Purcell, Byrd, Harris and Percy Grainger as well as some madrigals and partsongs.

Saturday 6th December 2025
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey
Essex EN9 1DG
at 7:30pm

Programme t.b.c.

Saturday 21st March 2026
St. John's Church
Epping
Essex CM16 5DN
time t.b.c.

Friday 19th June 2026
Waltham Forest Music Society
Highams Park
London E4 9QZ
at 7:30pm

Saturday 27th June 2026
Harlow Arts & Recreation Centre
Harlow
Essex CM17 0AJ
time t.b.c.

Saturday 5th December 2026
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey
Essex EN9 1DG
at 7:30pm

Saturday 22nd March 2025
St john's Church
Epping

Gloria!

Organ: Roger Bluff
with brass ensemble

Lamentations I - Tallis
Five Spirituals from Child of our time - Tippett
Hymn to St Cecilia - Britten
Funeral Sentences - Purcell
Gloria - Rutter

Saturday 7th December 2024
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey

For unto us... Messiah & more!

Messiah (Choruses from Part 1) - Handel
Make we joy - Anon
Ave Maria & Os justi - Bruckner
My Lord has come & Christ is the morning star - Will Todd
Hodie - James Whitbourn
De Vergine Maria - Carl Rütti
Lully, lulla, lullay & Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - Phillip Stopford
Sing lullaby & Here is the little door - Howells
Gabriel's message Trad. arr. Rathbone

Saturday 29th June 2024
St John's Church
Epping

Music in Essex

Mass in G minor - Vaugham Williams
Laudibus in sanctis - William Byrd
Sanctus from Missa Puer natus est - Thomas Tallis
Love is enough - Gustav Holst
Draw on sweet night & Flora gave me fairest flowers - John Wilbye
I it am - Geoffrey Winters
Bushes and Briars - Vaughan Williams
As she fills his dreams - Pam Slatter
Peace (My soul, there is a country) - John Garner
Magnificat - Jonathan Rathbone
My song (This song of mine) - Alan Bullard
O sing joyfully - Simon Winters

Saturday 16th March 2024
St Mary's Church
Woodford

Organ: Roger Bluff

Motet: Fürchte dich nicht – J.S. Bach
Missa Brevis – Zoltán Kodály
Missa pro defunctis – Duarte Lobo
Seek him that maketh the seven stars – Jonathan Dove

Saturday 9th December 2023
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey
Essex

Organ: Roger Bluff

Magnificat a 12 – Andrea Gabrieli
Magnificat I a 8 – Claudio Monteverdi
Deutches Magnificat (1671) – Heinrich Schütz
This have I done for my true love – Gustav Holst
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – John Gardner
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – Philip Stopford
Three Carols – Carl Rütti
Nova! Nova! – Iain Farrington
In the stillness – Sally Beamish
Noel: Verbum caro factum est – Tamsin Jones