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AT THE CROSS OF JESUS
The Crucifixion John Stainer The Saviour William Lloyd Webber Saturday 14 March 2020 at 7.30pm Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR A combined choir will sing Stainer’s Crucifixion regarded as one of the nation’s favourite choral works and contains rich chromatic harmony and considerable expressive power. This is coupled with The Saviour, magnificent yet rarely heard with familiar hymns for audience in the tradition of Stainer’s work. Featuring...
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COME SING MESSIAH
in Dr Denis Wright’s edition with Brass Band accompaniment Saturday 30 November 2019 at 5.30pm (rehearsal/sing through from 1.30pm) Doncaster Minster, 9 Church Street, Doncaster, DN1 1RD Love to sing Messiah? Come and join us in a special celebration of Handel’s masterpiece with brass accompaniment in the magnificent setting of Doncaster Minster. Featuring... Doncaster Choral Society The Choir of Sheffield Bach Society Rothwell Temperance Band Music Director: David Roberts Soloists:
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ST PAUL Mendelssohn Saturday 9 November 2019 at 7pm Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR Frequently performed in his lifetime, Mendelssohn’s St Paul tells the story of Saul/Paul through some of the most beautiful and dramatic choral music ever written, full of drama, action, intrigue, murderous plots and miracles. The text of the oratorio is based very largely on the Acts of the Apostles. After a lengthy overture, Part I opens with the martyrdom of Stephen and Saul’s persecution of the Christians. This is followed by the conversion of Paul, his baptism and ordination as a minister by Ananias. Part II finds Paul and Barnabas becoming the ambassadors of the Church. Their duet is followed by one of the oratorio’s best-loved choruses, ‘How lovely are the messengers’. We then hear of the Jews’ attempted entrapment of Paul and the miraculous healing at Lystra of a crippled man. The work ends with Paul leaving his church at Ephesus and sailing for Jerusalem, and new challenges. Featuring...
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SUMMER FESTIVAL CONCERT
Saturday 18 May 2019 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
Requiem - Christopher Wood
Requiem - John Rutter
Christopher Wood's Requiem was written in response to the mixture of emotions generated by the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
If the people filing past her coffin had been a choir, what music would they have sung?" This beautiful work is a fitting accompaniment to John Rutter's Requiem, written in memory of his father.
Plus special guests:
- Soprano - Kirsty Hopkins
- Mezzo Soprano - Marie Elizabeth Seager
- Tenor - Thomas Elwin
- Baritone - David Guest
- National Festival Orchestra - leader Sally Robinson
- We will also be joined by Members of Sheffield Bach Choir
This concert is presented in association with L'Inviti Music Management Ltd
BLESS THE LORD!
Saturday 16 March 2019 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
Benedicite - Andrew Carter
Feel the Spirit - John Rutter
York-based Composer Andrew Carter's Benedicite incorporates Bless the Lord, a set of three cheerful and merry movements for children's choir.
Feel the Spirit, another firm favourite, brings a special magic - new life even- to such well loved titles as Steal Away and Deep River.
Plus special guests:
Saturday 16 March 2019 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
Benedicite - Andrew Carter
Feel the Spirit - John Rutter
York-based Composer Andrew Carter's Benedicite incorporates Bless the Lord, a set of three cheerful and merry movements for children's choir.
Feel the Spirit, another firm favourite, brings a special magic - new life even- to such well loved titles as Steal Away and Deep River.
Plus special guests:
- Margaret McDonald - mezzo-soprano
- Childrens choirs from Bessacarr and Town Fields Primary Schools and Doncaster Minster
- National Festival Orchestra - leader Sally Robinson
COME AND SING CHRISTMAS
Saturday 8 December 2018 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
A Gala Concert of Seasonal Music
Plus special guests:
Saturday 8 December 2018 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
A Gala Concert of Seasonal Music
Plus special guests:
- Clifton Handbell Ringers
- Elli-Mae McGlone - Organ Soloist
- David Houlder - Organ
- Conductor - Simon Lindley
LEST WE FORGET
Saturday 10 November 2018 at 7.30pm
CAST Theatre, Doncaster DN1 3BU
The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace: Karl Jenkins
The Spirit of England - Elgar
Plus special guests:
In a season devoted to music by British composers, we commemorate the 1918 Armistice with music of remembrance including Karl Jenkins most performed work - music incorporating every style and mood in a courageous and challenging examination of war and peace. Elgar's Spirit of England war-time trilogy captures the magic of Laurence Binyons's texts.
Sponsored by DCS Millennium Club
GLORIA - VIVALDI
MASS IN G - SHUBERT
Saturday 19 May 2018 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
The wonderfully sunny nature of the Gloria with its distinctive melodies and rhythms gives it immediate and universal appeal. Schubert's Mass in G is full of surprises and musical ideas.
Plus special guests:
Sponsored by: The Patrons and Friends of the Society
REQUIEM - RUTTER
MASS IN D - DVORAK
Saturday 17 March 2018 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
John Rutter unashamedly composes instantly memorable tunes and nowhere is this more evident than in his glorious Requiem. In His Mass in D Dvorak created an exquisite work rich in melodic and harmonic imagery.
Plus special guests:
Saturday 9th December 2017 at 7.30pm
Christmas Oratorio - J S Bach
Parts 1, 2, 3 & 6. Celebrate the festive season with Bach's rarely heard magnificent masterpiece
Debra Morley - Soprano
Margaret McDonald - Mezzo-Soprano
Stephen Lilley - Tenor
Terence Ayebare - Bass
David Houlder - Organ
National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
Sponsored by: Mr A E Andrews of Leeds
Venue: Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office Street DN1 1TR
Saturday 11th November 2017 7.30pm
The MAGIC of MOZART Requiem & Solemn Vespers
plus Clarinet Concerto in A (K622) & Overture: Marriage of Figaro (K492)
Priory Place Methodist Church DN1 1TR
Mozart's Requiem, his final work, is one of the most famous in the choral repertoire. Left unfinished at the time of his death, it contains hauntingly beautiful music.
His Solemn Vespers, written at a time of personal unhappiness, is remarkable for its joyous music expression - most notably the Laudate Dominum with its soaring soprano solo.
In addition the National Festival Orchestra will treat us to to the wonderful and very popular Overture from his opera The Marriage of Figaro and the sublime Clarinet Concerto in A, one of Mozart's final completed works, and his last purely instrumental work .
Philippa Hyde - Soprano
Hannah Mason - Contralto
Ben Thapa - Tenor
Quentin Brown - Bass
Helen Blamey - Clarinet
David Houlder - Organ
National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
Saturday 13th May 2017 7.30pm Favourite Choral Classics
Feast of classic favourites including "I Was Glad"; Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Zadok The Priest". Along with Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory the concert with have a "Last Night of the Proms" feel. Come prepared to do some singing!!
Soprano: Claire Wheat
Organ and Piano: Jonathan Gooing
Saturday 1st April 2017 7.30pm at CAST Theatre Doncaster
Messiah
A special celebration of Handel's great masterpiece to mark the 275th anniversary of the work's first performance in Dublin.
The National Festival Orchestra
Joanne Dexter - Soprano
Margaret McDonald - Mezzo-Soprano
Richard Rowe - Tenor
Alan Fairs - Bass
David Houlder - organ.
Saturday 10th December 2016 7.30pm
Come Sing Christmas
A Gala Concert of seasonal music - a celebration in words and music including carols for all to sing .
Featuring guest artiste: Carey Williams
Venue: Priory Place Methodist Church. Printing Office Street DN1 1TR
Saturday 5 November 2016 7.30pm Mendelssohn: ELIJAH
Soprano: Julie Cooper
Contralto: Alison Hudson
Tenor: Ben Thapa
Bass: Ben Davies
Treble: Andrew Farn
Organ: David Houlder
with
HARROGATE GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHAMBER CHOIR
and
The National Festival Orchestra - Leader Sally Robinson
Venue: Priory Place Methodist Church. Printing Office Street DN1 1TR
Saturday 10 November 2018 at 7.30pm
CAST Theatre, Doncaster DN1 3BU
The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace: Karl Jenkins
The Spirit of England - Elgar
Plus special guests:
- Debra Morley - Soprano
- Alison Hudson - Contralto
- Ranald McClusker - Tenor
- Alex Ashworth - Bass
- National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
In a season devoted to music by British composers, we commemorate the 1918 Armistice with music of remembrance including Karl Jenkins most performed work - music incorporating every style and mood in a courageous and challenging examination of war and peace. Elgar's Spirit of England war-time trilogy captures the magic of Laurence Binyons's texts.
Sponsored by DCS Millennium Club
GLORIA - VIVALDI
MASS IN G - SHUBERT
Saturday 19 May 2018 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
The wonderfully sunny nature of the Gloria with its distinctive melodies and rhythms gives it immediate and universal appeal. Schubert's Mass in G is full of surprises and musical ideas.
Plus special guests:
- Joanne Dexter - Soprano
- David Allsopp - Counter-tenor
- Jeremy Dawson - Tenor
- Quentin Brown - Bass
- David Houlder - Organ
- National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
Sponsored by: The Patrons and Friends of the Society
REQUIEM - RUTTER
MASS IN D - DVORAK
Saturday 17 March 2018 at 7.30pm
Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office St, DN1 1TR
John Rutter unashamedly composes instantly memorable tunes and nowhere is this more evident than in his glorious Requiem. In His Mass in D Dvorak created an exquisite work rich in melodic and harmonic imagery.
Plus special guests:
- Kirsty Hopkins - Soprano
- Laura Lamph - Contralto
- Ruairi Bowen - Tenor
- Tom Asher - Bass
- David Houlder - Organ
- Principals of the National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
Saturday 9th December 2017 at 7.30pm
Christmas Oratorio - J S Bach
Parts 1, 2, 3 & 6. Celebrate the festive season with Bach's rarely heard magnificent masterpiece
Debra Morley - Soprano
Margaret McDonald - Mezzo-Soprano
Stephen Lilley - Tenor
Terence Ayebare - Bass
David Houlder - Organ
National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
Sponsored by: Mr A E Andrews of Leeds
Venue: Priory Place Methodist Church, Printing Office Street DN1 1TR
Saturday 11th November 2017 7.30pm
The MAGIC of MOZART Requiem & Solemn Vespers
plus Clarinet Concerto in A (K622) & Overture: Marriage of Figaro (K492)
Priory Place Methodist Church DN1 1TR
Mozart's Requiem, his final work, is one of the most famous in the choral repertoire. Left unfinished at the time of his death, it contains hauntingly beautiful music.
His Solemn Vespers, written at a time of personal unhappiness, is remarkable for its joyous music expression - most notably the Laudate Dominum with its soaring soprano solo.
In addition the National Festival Orchestra will treat us to to the wonderful and very popular Overture from his opera The Marriage of Figaro and the sublime Clarinet Concerto in A, one of Mozart's final completed works, and his last purely instrumental work .
Philippa Hyde - Soprano
Hannah Mason - Contralto
Ben Thapa - Tenor
Quentin Brown - Bass
Helen Blamey - Clarinet
David Houlder - Organ
National Festival Orchestra - Sally Robinson (Leader)
Saturday 13th May 2017 7.30pm Favourite Choral Classics
Feast of classic favourites including "I Was Glad"; Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Zadok The Priest". Along with Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory the concert with have a "Last Night of the Proms" feel. Come prepared to do some singing!!
Soprano: Claire Wheat
Organ and Piano: Jonathan Gooing
Saturday 1st April 2017 7.30pm at CAST Theatre Doncaster
Messiah
A special celebration of Handel's great masterpiece to mark the 275th anniversary of the work's first performance in Dublin.
The National Festival Orchestra
Joanne Dexter - Soprano
Margaret McDonald - Mezzo-Soprano
Richard Rowe - Tenor
Alan Fairs - Bass
David Houlder - organ.
Saturday 10th December 2016 7.30pm
Come Sing Christmas
A Gala Concert of seasonal music - a celebration in words and music including carols for all to sing .
Featuring guest artiste: Carey Williams
Venue: Priory Place Methodist Church. Printing Office Street DN1 1TR
Saturday 5 November 2016 7.30pm Mendelssohn: ELIJAH
Soprano: Julie Cooper
Contralto: Alison Hudson
Tenor: Ben Thapa
Bass: Ben Davies
Treble: Andrew Farn
Organ: David Houlder
with
HARROGATE GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHAMBER CHOIR
and
The National Festival Orchestra - Leader Sally Robinson
Venue: Priory Place Methodist Church. Printing Office Street DN1 1TR
Saturday May 14th 2016 ENGLISH GLORY
James Walker: Night Songs & John Rutter: Psalmfest
Walker’s Night Songs were commissioned for the centenary of choral singing in the town by Doncaster Choral Society in 1998. The songs have been performed elsewhere by Sheffield Bach Choir and was previously revived in the Doncaster choir’s 125th anniversary in 2013, a project generously supported by the Friends and Patrons of DCS.
The Concert also included John Rutter’s Psalmfest contains some of Rutter’s most attractive music with its mix of rhythmic vitality and melodic beauty.
Soprano: Phillippa Hyde
Tenor: Stephen Liley
Bass: Terence Ayebare
The National Festival Orchestra
James Walker: Night Songs & John Rutter: Psalmfest
Walker’s Night Songs were commissioned for the centenary of choral singing in the town by Doncaster Choral Society in 1998. The songs have been performed elsewhere by Sheffield Bach Choir and was previously revived in the Doncaster choir’s 125th anniversary in 2013, a project generously supported by the Friends and Patrons of DCS.
The Concert also included John Rutter’s Psalmfest contains some of Rutter’s most attractive music with its mix of rhythmic vitality and melodic beauty.
Soprano: Phillippa Hyde
Tenor: Stephen Liley
Bass: Terence Ayebare
The National Festival Orchestra
March 12th 2016 Rossini - Stabat Mater & Dvorak - Te Deum
Considered a masterpiece by many, the Stabat Mater, a gigantic success at its first performance, Is a wonderfully melodic work veering rather more towards the operatic than the religious, whilst in the Te Deum Dvorak was inspired to write his finest music, suitably festive and appealing to his deeply felt religious convictions.
Stabat Mater Soloists:
Sop Kristina James
Alto Kathryn Woodruff
Tenor Stephen Liley
Bass Quentin Brown
Organ David Houlder
Stabat Mater Soloists:
Sop Kristina James
Alto Kathryn Woodruff
Tenor Stephen Liley
Bass Quentin Brown
Organ David Houlder
December 12th 2015 Handle - Messiah
The Choral Society perform Handle's Messiah bi-annually, normally at Priory Place Methodist Church, Doncaster.A complete performance “ cover to cover ” with an international line-up of soloists directed by our conductor from the harpsichord following the tradition of the composer himself
Messiah Soloists:
Soprano Debra Morley
Alto Margaret McDonald
Tenor Ben Thapa
Bass Alex Ashworth
Organ David Houlder
National Festival Orchestra
Messiah Soloists:
Soprano Debra Morley
Alto Margaret McDonald
Tenor Ben Thapa
Bass Alex Ashworth
Organ David Houlder
National Festival Orchestra
Lesley Garrett sings with Doncaster Choral Society - November 14th 2015
VENUE: CAST Theatre Doncaster
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
LESLEY, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Mozart – Laudate Dominum*
Stanford – Magnificat in G
Rutter – Gaelic Blessing
LESLEY, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Mozart – Coronation Mass** – Kyrie – Gloria – Sanctus/Benedictus/Agnus Dei
All Around my Hat
LESLEY AND ORCHESTRA
A North Country Lass
The Bold Grenadier
CHOIR
The Ripon Sword Dance
ORCHESTRA
Warlock – Capriol Suite
LESLEY AND FRIENDS with ORCHESTRA
Vivaldi – Laudamus Te [Gloria]
Mozart – La Ci Darem La Mano
with the CHOIR
Verdi – Brindisi [La Traviata]
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Verdi – Va Pensiero [Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves]
LESLEY AND ORCHESTRA
Rodgers – Lover [Love me Tonight]
Theile/Weiss – What a Wonderful World
LESLEY, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Mancini – Moon River [Breakfast at Tiffany’s]
Rodgers – Some Enchanted Evening [South Pacific]
encore: You'll Never Walk Alone
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
LESLEY, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Mozart – Laudate Dominum*
Stanford – Magnificat in G
Rutter – Gaelic Blessing
LESLEY, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Mozart – Coronation Mass** – Kyrie – Gloria – Sanctus/Benedictus/Agnus Dei
All Around my Hat
LESLEY AND ORCHESTRA
A North Country Lass
The Bold Grenadier
CHOIR
The Ripon Sword Dance
ORCHESTRA
Warlock – Capriol Suite
LESLEY AND FRIENDS with ORCHESTRA
Vivaldi – Laudamus Te [Gloria]
Mozart – La Ci Darem La Mano
with the CHOIR
Verdi – Brindisi [La Traviata]
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Verdi – Va Pensiero [Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves]
LESLEY AND ORCHESTRA
Rodgers – Lover [Love me Tonight]
Theile/Weiss – What a Wonderful World
LESLEY, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Mancini – Moon River [Breakfast at Tiffany’s]
Rodgers – Some Enchanted Evening [South Pacific]
encore: You'll Never Walk Alone
