Spring Concert
Date: Sunday 21 March 2010
Music: Gounod: Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile
Elgar: Great is the Lord
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Summer Concert
Date: Saturday 10 July 2010
Music: Bizet: Carmen Suite
My Fair Lady choral selections
English Folksongs
Christmas Concert
Date: Saturday, 11 December 2010
(to be confirmed)
Spring Concert
Date: Sunday 21 March 2010
Music:
Date: Sunday 21 March 2010
Music:
Gounod: Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile
Elgar: Great is the Lord
Vaughan Williams: Towards the Unknown Region
Elgar: Great is the Lord
Vaughan Williams: Towards the Unknown Region
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Christmas Concert 2009
Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Music: Handel - Coronation Anthems
including Zadok the Priest
Holst - Christmas Day
Carols for Choir & Audience
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Date: Saturday, 4 July 2009
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Music: American Music incl.
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
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Date: Saturday, 4 April 2009
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Music: Mozart Requiem
Mozart Vespers
Orchestra: West Forest Sinfonia
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Date: Sunday, 7 December 2008
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Orchestra: West Forest Sinfonia
Music by: Bach Christmas Oratorio
Carols for choir and audience
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Date: Saturday July 5, 2008
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Programme: A Night at the Opera
Arias and choruses by Bizet, Mozart,
Puccini, Verdi and more
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Date: Saturday, 5 April 2008
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Music by: Durufle: Requiem
Grieg: Four Psalms
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Date: Saturday December 15, 2007
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Music by: Choruses from Messiah, Handel
Carols for choir and audience
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Date: Saturday October 27, 2007
Centenary Chorus Concert
Venue: Guildford Cathedral
Programme: Requiem, Verdi
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Date: Saturday June 30, 2007
Summer Concert with
Chorale Saint Martin from Sucy-en-Brie
Venue: High Cross Church, Camberley
Programme: Give unto the Lord, Elgar
Cantique de Jean Racine, Fauré
Mass in G, Schubert
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Date: Saturday March 31, 2007
Spring Concert
Venue: High Cross Church, Knoll Rd, Camberley
Programme: Nelson Mass - Haydn
The Funeral Music for Queen Mary - Purcell
Ode on St. Cecilia's Day - Purcell
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Date: Saturday December 16th 2006
Venue: High Cross Church, Knoll Rd, Camberley
Programme: Dixit Dominus, Handel
Hodie Christus Natus Est, Sweelinck
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, arr. Sandstrom
Selection of Carols for choir and audience
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20th Anniversary Concert
Date: Saturday June 24th 2006
Venue: High Cross Church, Knoll Road, Camberley
With members of West Forest Sinfonia
Part one: Requiem - John Rutter
Part two: I Was Glad, Hubert Parry
Five English Folk Songs, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Blest Pair of Sirens, Hubert Parry
Conductor Sofi Jeannin
Soloists Emma Mabin, Soprano
Organist Peter Beaven
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Date: Friday April 14th 2006 (Good Friday)
Venue: Royal Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst.
A joint presentation with Yateley Choral Society and West Forest Sinfonia
Part one: Choral Suite from The Armed Man, Karl Jenkins
Conducted by Rufus Frowde
Part two: German Requiem, Johannes Brahms
Conducted by Ron Ferris
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Date: Saturday December 10th 2005
Venue: High Cross Church, Knoll Road, Camberley
With West Forest Sinfonia and
Harry Macey - organ.
Part one: Christmas Oratorio, Saint Saëns
Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Vaughan Williams.
Soloists Alex Jupp, Sophie Elliot, Ellie Major, Jonelle Daniels.
Part two: Selection of carols for choir and audience.
Conductor: Ron Ferris
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Date: Saturday October 15th 2005
Venue: High Cross Church, Knoll Road, Camberley
Part one: Cantique de Jean Racine, Fauré
O divine redeemer, Gounod
(Solo Sarah Deane-Cutler)
A Song of Peace, Stanford
(Solo Sally Harrison)
Ave Verum, Mozart
Ave Maria, Mascagni
(Solo Sarah Deane-Cutler)
Little Organ Mass, Haydn
(Benedictus solo Sally Harrison)
Part two: Gloria, Vivaldi
(Soloists Sarah Deane-Cutler and Sally Harrison)
Conductor: Ron Ferris
Organist: Tim Uglow
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June 18th 2005
Members of Surrey Heath Choral Society travelled to Surrey Heath's twin town of Sucy-en-Brie (outside Paris) to join with Chorale Saint Martin in a concert in the church of Saint Martin which dates from the 12th century.
The musical fare on offer was Haydn's Little Organ Mass, Gounod's Mass in G and Saint Saëns' Oratorio de Noel (Christmas Oratorio).
Some of our members stayed in the homes of the French choir members and we all enjoyed a super meal together after the concert and a weekend of hospitality with Chorale St Martin.
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May 7th 2005
Surrey Heath Choral Society joined with Fleet and District Choral Society, Bracknell Choral Society, Yateley Choral Society and Ashford Choral Society to perform Berlioz' monumental Grande Messe des Morts in Guildford Cathedral.
Around 300 singers and an orchestra with four independent brass groups filled the building with sound and a packed cathedral witnessed a stunning performance of this rarely performed work.
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Saturday 11th December 2004
We were joined by Chaconne Brass and part one of the concert included both John Rutter's Te Deum and his Gloria. Chaccone Brass also entertained us with four pieces, all immaculately played.
Part two was our now usual selection of carols for choir and audience. We had another full house for this concert and ran out of chairs. Audience members sat on steps and spare piano stools.
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Saturday 17th July 2004
A Choral Showcase at High Cross Church, Camberley.
Music performed included:
* Alleluia - Randall Thompson
* Choose something like a star - Randall Thompson
* Thou O Jehovah - Aaron Copland
* Sing we praises - Aaron Copland
* Down by the riverside - John Rutter
* The heavens are telling - Haydn
* How lovely are thy dwellings fair - Brahms
* Hear my words ye people - Parry
* Three songs of praise - Dyson
* There shall a star - Mendelssohn
* Evening hymn - Balfour Gardiner
* Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - Stanford
* Someday I'll find you - Noel Coward
* London Pride - Noel Coward
* West Side Story medley - Bernstein
* The rhythm of life
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Good Friday, April 9th 2004
In the Royal Memorial Chapel, the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Part one of the concert included Vaughn William's Five Mystical Songs and Mendelssohn's Hear my Prayer.
Part two was Mendelssoh's Hymn of Praise Lobgesang sung in English. West Forest Sinfonia also joined us for this concert.
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Saturday December 13th 2003
High Cross Church Camberley: We offered our usual Christmas Concert, this time to a capacity audience of around 400. In part one of the concert we performed Finzi's In Terra Pax, a very beautiful but quite short work and Charpentiers Messe de Minuit (Midnight Mass).
Part two was our usual mix of carols for the audience and choir. We included John Rutter's I saw three ships, David Willcocks' Ding dong merrily on high and Malcolm Archer's A child is born in Bethlehem.
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Saturday October 4th 2003
In combinations with Yateley Choral Society and the Collingwood Singers, Handel's Messiah was performed in Churchill Hall, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; by kind permission of the Commandant.
This concert was under the banner of "Voices for Hospices" All Singers paid £10 to sing and the audience paid the same, we raised just a little short of £4000 for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice at Farnham.
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Saturday June 28th 2003
We played host to a choir from our French twin town of Sucy-en-Brie. In Part of the concert SHCS sang Schubert's Mass in G and Chorale St Martin sang a selection of short pieces. We joined forces in part two to sing Cantique de Jean Racine and Requiem both by Gabriel Fauré. West Forest Sinfonia were in attendance. After the concert we hosted a meal for our French visitors.
Saturday April 5th 2003
Part one of the Concert was four Handel Coronation Anthems and part two was Mozart's Solemn Vespers, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius
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Saturday 14th December 2002
Was unusual as we performed a work which had been hidden away for many years. The Holy Birth by F W Wadley is a musical nativity play and it took some work to discover he orchestra parts hidden in the basement of Novello/Chester music - not having been used for over 30 years. The audience loved it! Part two was the usual mix of carols for the choir and audience