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2024 CONCERTS

Friday, 22 March

Music to fill the soul

Music from Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied and Stabat Mater in G Minor
Caroline Charrière – Flowers
Ivo Antognini – Canticum Novum

Conductor: Joanna Tomlinson
Organ: Ian Tindale

Friday 22 March 2024, 7.30pm
St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

2023 CONCERTS

Friday, 15 December

Christmas Carols and Readings

St Gabriel’s Church Warwick Square, Pimlico, London SW1V 4QF

Thursday, 16 November

Hidden Gems

A concert of lesser-known masterpieces by major Baroque composers.

Conductor: Joanna Tomlinson
Organ: Ian Tindale
Bass Viol: Peter McCarthy
St Andrew’s Church, 5 St Andrew St, London EC4A 3AF

Thursday, 29 June

Sing joyfully!

A programme of uplifting music from Byrd to Whitacre

Conductor: Joanna Tomlinson
Organ, piano: Ian Tindale

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Thursday, 30 March

Bach – St John Passion –

With the London Baroque Sinfonia

Joanna Tomlinson – Conductor
Thomas Hobbs – Evangelist
Oliver Hunt – Christus
Philip Tebb – Pilate
Elizabeth Weisberg – Soprano
Cathy Bell – Alto
Sam Jenkins – Tenor

St John’s Smith Square, SW1P 3HA

2022 CONCERTS

Tuesday, 13 December

Christmas Carols and Readings 

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Thursday, 17 November

A Spiritual Path – Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

A programme of Psalms – including settings by Monteverdi, Parry and Cecilia McDowall – and spirituals including arrangements by Undine Smith Moore, Moses Hogan and Roland Carter.

Conductor – Joanna Tomlinson
Organ – Ian Tindale

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Thursday, 30 June

Ice and Fire

Conductor – Joanna Tomlinson
Organ – Richard Moore

A programme of choral music from the Baltic region, including works by Arvo Pärt,  Veljo Tormis and Galina Grigorjeva.

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Thursday, 31 March

Monteverdi Vespers

Conductor – Joanna Tomlinson

Soloists: Zoë Brookshaw, Rebecca Outram, Gareth Treseder, Greg Tassell, Colin Campbell and James Oldfield

Holy Trinity Sloane Square, SW1X 9BZ

2021 CONCERTS

Thursday, 18 November

Fauré – Requiem
Runestad – The Hope of Loving
Larsen – Alaska Spring

with the Dionysus Ensemble

Conductor – Joanna Tomlinson
Organ – Ian Tindale
Soprano – Jenny Bacon
Tenor – Stephen Anthony
Baritone – Colin Campbell

St Peter’s Eaton Square

2019 CONCERTS

Tuesday 17 December

Carol concert

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Joanna Tomlinson – conductor

Ian Tindale – organ

Thursday 28 November

Handel’s Messiah
With the London Baroque Sinfonia

Conductor: Joanna Tomlinson
Soprano: Rowan Pierce
Mezzo-soprano: Anna Harvey
Tenor: Nick Pritchard
Bass-baritone: Edward Grint

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA

Thursday 27 June

Songs and Sonnets: Shakespeare by Shearing, Rutter, Mathias and Diemer

Conductor: Joanna Tomlinson
Piano: Ian Tindale
Double Bass: Malcolm Creese

St Peterʼs Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL


Thursday, 28 March

Haydn The Creation

London Baroque Sinfonia
Joanna Tomlinson: Conductor

Miriam Allan: Soprano
Greg Tassell: Tenor
James Oldfield: Bass-Baritone

St John’s Smith Square, SW1P 3HA


2018 CONCERTS

Tuesday, 18 December

Whitehall Choir Carol concert

Music, carols and readings for Christmas

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Joanna Tomlinson – conductor

Ian Tindale – organ

Saturday, 24 November

A joint concert with Viennese choir Cantus Novus Wien celebrating 100 years of Women’s Suffrage with music by female composers such as: Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Fanny Mendelssohn, Alma Mahler, Elizabeth Poston and Roxanna Panufnik. Including from Cantus Novus a world première by Annamaria Kowalsky.

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna
Ives – Crossing the Bar
Gjeilo – Ubi Caritas
Runestad – Alleluia
Copland – Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (organ)

Ian Tindale – Organ
Roderick Morris – Countertenor

Joanna Tomlinson – conductor

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL

Thursday, 22 March

Brahms – Requiem
Brahms – Funf Gesänge (op104)
Schubert – Psalm 23
Schubert – Zum Sanctus

Ian Tindale – Piano
Michael Higgins – Piano

Joanna Tomlinson – conductor

St James’s Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL


2017 CONCERTS

Tuesday, 19 December

Christmas Concert

Joanna Tomlinson – conductor

Ian Tindale – organ

St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL


Friday, 17 November

Handel – Joshua

Flyer for Handel's JoshuaJoanna Tomlinson – conductor

Soloists:

Greg Tassell : JOSHUA
Joseph Bolger : OTHNIEL
James Oldfield : CALEB
Miriam Allan : ACHSAH

London Baroque Sinfonia

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


Thursday, 6 July

Paul Spicer farewell concert

  • Walton – Jubilate Deo
  • Britten – Te Deum in C
  • Paul Spicer – How do I love thee?
  • Stanford – For lo I raise up
  • Howells – My eyes for beauty pine
  • Howells – A Hymn for St Cecilia
  • Joubert – This is the gate of the Lord
  • Finzi – God is gone up

Paul Spicer – conductor; Ian Tindale – organ

St Peters’s, Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL


Thursday, 6 April

  • Victoria – O vos omnes
  • Farrant – Call to Remembrance
  • Lotti – Crucifixus
  • John Sanders – Reproaches
  • Bruckner – Christus factus est
  • Duruflé – Requiem
  • Duruflé – Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain (Organ)

Paul Spicer – conductor; Ian Tindale – organ

St Margaret’s, Westminster, London SW1P 3JX


Saturday, 28 January

  • J S Bach – Magnificat
  • J S Bach – Cantata Ich hatte viel Bekummerniss

Paul Spicer – conductor; Brandenburg Baroque Soloists

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ


2016 CONCERTS

Tuesday, 13 December

  • Christmas Concert

The programme included Herbert Howells’ Magnificat, Rutter’s Nativity Carol and Sweelinck’s Hodie Christus Natus Est, as well as pieces by Paul Spicer.
The Choir’s accompanist Ian Tindale with soprano Katherine Crompton performed a selection of English song, German Lieder and French mélodie on the subject of Christmas.

St Peters’s, Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL


Tuesday, 22 November

  • Mozart – Coronation Mass C K317
  • Mozart – Divertimento in F K138
  • Richard Blackford – Mirror of Perfection

Conductor – Paul Spicer; Brandenburg Sinfonia

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


Thursday, 14 July

  • A programme of French music for Bastille Day, including works by Saint-Saëns, Debussy and Massenet

St James’s, Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL

Conductor – Paul Spicer; Piano – Michael Higgins

Thursday, 21 April

  • An English Choral Landscape

Including works by Purcell, Parry, Howells and Paul Spicer

Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London SW1X 9BZ


2015 CONCERTS

Monday, 14 December

Carol concert

St Peter’s, Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL


Tuesday, 17 November

  • Handel Athalia

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


Thursday, 9 July

Ralph Vaughan Williams

A programme of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams:

  • Five English Folk Songs
  • Valiant for Truth
  • Five Mystical Songs
  • Lord, thou hast been our refuge

St Peter’s Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL


Maundy Thursday, 2 April

  • Mozart Mass in C Minor, K427
  • Schubert Stabat Mater in F Minor, D383

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


2014 CONCERTS

Tuesday, 16 December

Carol concert

St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, London SW1P 1LE


Monday, 24 November

  • JS Bach Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243
  • JS Bach Cantata, BWV 50
  • JS Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041
  • JS Bach Fantasia in G, BWV 572 for solo organ

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


Friday, 4 July

  • Brahms Three Motets, op. 110
  • Rheinberger Cantus Missae, op. 109
  • Stanford Three Motets, op. 38
  • Elgar Give unto the Lord
  • Kodály Laudes Organi

Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London SW1X 9BZ


Friday, 4 April

  • Passiontide to Ascension

Including music by Gibbons, Purcell, Leighton and Vaughan Williams.
Also the première of Christ on the Cross by Samuel Parsons,
the winning piece from the Young Composer Competition

St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London EC1N 7RD


2013 CONCERTS

10 December: St Stephen’s, SW1

  • Carol concert

15 November

  • Handel Jephtha

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


1 July

Gloriana!

British secular music celebrating the Choir’s 70th anniversary

  • Britten Choral Dances from the opera Gloriana
  • Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs
  • Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Ireland: pieces from A Garland for the Queen
  • William Mathias Shakespeare Songs
  • George Shearing Music to Hear

Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ER

Paul Spicer – conductor; Ian Tindale – piano; James Opstad – double bass


28 March

  • Bach  B Minor Mass

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


2012 CONCERTS

11 December: St Stephen’s, SW1

  • Carol concert

23 November

  • Langlais Messe Solennelle
  • Poulenc Four Christmas Motets
  • Duruflé Requiem

St Margaret’s, Westminster, London SW1P 3JX


26 June

  • Rossini  Petite Messe Solennelle

St Peter’s, 119 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL


23 March 2012

  • Handel Israel in Egypt

St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA


9 March

  • Mozart  Requiem

Paul Spicer – conductor; The Brandenburg Sinfonia

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ


2011 CONCERTS

13 December: St Stephen’s, SW1

  • Carol concert

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24 November

Give Thanks: Renaissance and Modern Choral Music:
Tallis to Whitacre

  • Tallis O nata lux
  • Byrd Haec Dies and Great Service: Evening Canticles
  • Tomkins When David Heard
  • Weelkes Alleluia
  • Gibbons O clap your hands
  • Tavener Mother of God and Awed by the Beauty
  • Whitacre Nox Aurumque and Lux Aurumque

St Alban the Martyr, Brooke Street, Holborn, EC1N 7RD

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11 July

  • Dyson The Blacksmiths
  • Parry Lord let me know mine end
  • Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
  • Bax Moy Mell (piano duet)

Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A

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Review of concert by Lewis Foreman, biographer of Bax


15 April: Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, SW1

  • Parry I was glad; Blest pair of sirens; Songs of Farewell
  • Finzi Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice
  • Britten Rejoice in the Lamb

Paul Spicer – conductor; James Longford – organ

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7 April: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2

  • Mozart  Requiem

Paul Spicer – conductor; The Brandenburg Sinfonia

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2010 Concerts

14 December 2010: St Stephen’s, SW1

  • Carol concert

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Friday 26 November 2010: St John’s, Smith Square, SW1

  • Bach Missa Brevis in A
  • Bach Lobet den Herrn
  • Leighton Columba Mea
  • Bach Second Orchestral Suite

Paul Spicer and the Brandenburg Sinfonia

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3 July:St John’s, Smith Square, SW1

  • Haydn Paukenmesse
  • Weber Mass in E Flat

Conductor – Paul Spicer; The Brandenburg Sinfonia

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22 May:Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Ave, Clapham, SW4

  • Handel Coronation Anthems
  • Elgar The Music Makers

Conductor – Paul Spicer; accompanist – James Longford; mezzo-soprano – Victoria Gray


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22 March: Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A

  • Poulenc Chansons Francaises
  • Ravel Sonatine (piano solo)
  • Puccini Messa di Gloria

Paul Spicer – conductor; James Longford – piano

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15 January: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2

  • Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

Neil Ferris – conductor; The Brandenburg Sinfonia


2009 CONCERTS

15 December: St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, SW1

  • Carol concert

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27 November:St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1

  • Handel  Judas Maccabaeus

With the London Baroque Sinfonia

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10 July:St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1

  • Bach  Komm, Jesu, Komm, Lobet den Herrn, Der Geist hilft, Brandenberg Concerto No. 3
  • Vivaldi  Kyrie, Credo
  • Purcell  My Heart is Inditing

Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia

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6 April: The Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A

  • Brahms  Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • Brahms  Vier Quartetten

Paul Spicer – conductor; the longfordbrown piano duo

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19 March: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2

  • Fauré  Requiem
  • Fauré  Cantique de Jean Racine

Paul Spicer – conductor; The Brandenburg Sinfonia


2008 Concerts

16 December: St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, London, SW1

  • Carol concert

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4 December: St Marylebone Parish Church, NW1

  • Fairest Flower of Any Field – Music for the season of Christmas

Paul Spicer – conductor; Stephen Disley – organ

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1 November: Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Ave, Clapham, SW4

  • Haydn    Nelson Mass

Scratch performance with Paul Spicer, conductor, and Richard Pearce, piano

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7 July: The Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A

As the Tide was Flowing

(English secular music)

  • Vaughan Williams Five English Folk Songs
  • Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands
  • Britten Peter Grimes (extracts)
  • Chilcott songs

Paul Spicer – conductor; James Longford – piano

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10 April: Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, SW1

  • Monteverdi    1610 Vespers

Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia

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14 March: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2

  • Vivaldi   Gloria

Neil Ferris – conductor; Brandenburg Sinfonia


2007 Concerts

11 December: St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, London, SW1

  • Christmas music, including extracts from Handel’s Messiah

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16 November: St John’s, Smith Square, London, SW1

  • Handel   Saul

Paul Spicer – conductor; Brandenburg Baroque Soloists

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3 November: Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Ave, Clapham, SW4

  • Beethoven   Mass in C

Scratch performance with Paul Spicer, conductor, and James Longford, piano

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7 July: St John’s, Smith Square

  • Mozart   Mass in C minor K427 (Robert Levin completion)

Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia

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Whitehall Choir tour – Toulouse, France, 4-8 May

  • Bach    Jesu meine Freude
  • Fauré    Requiem
  • Elgar    Give unto the Lord
  • Parry    I was glad

6 May: Notre Dame de Jonquière, Lisle-sur-Tarn

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5 May: Basilique Notre Dame la Daurade, Toulouse

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30 March: St John’s, Smith Square

  • Bach  St Mark Passion

Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia

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2006 Concerts

12 December: St Stephen’s Church, Rochester Row

  • Christmas concert – a seasonal programme of music

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23 November: St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge

  • Bach    Jesu meine Freude
  • Elgar    Give unto the Lord
  • Mendelssohn    Psalm 2
  • Brahms    Two Motets
  • Parry    The Wanderer (organ); Hear My Words, Ye People

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4 November: Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Ave, Clapham, SW4

  • Mozart Requiem

Scratch performance with Paul Spicer, conductor


6 July: St John’s, Smith Square

  • Handel Dixit Dominus
  • Haydn Nelson Mass

Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia

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6 April: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square

  • Faure Requiem
  • Faure Cantique de Jean Racine

Paul Spicer – conductor; Brandenburg Sinfonia

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31 March: St John’s, Smith Square

  • Bruckner Mass in E Minor
  • Paul Spicer The Deciduous Cross(London premiere)
  • Dvorak Serenade for Wind

Paul Spicer – conductor; Brandenburg Sinfonia

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