Next Concert
The Best of Baroque, 26 April 2025
For its next concert, the choir will be teaming up with The Constanza Choir to sing baroque music on Saturday, 26 April at 7:30pm in Cadogan Hall just off Sloane Square. We will be supported by the London Baroque Sinfonia.
Prepare for the roof to be raised by these combined forces in rousing performances of Handel's Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest and Vivaldi's setting of Dixit Dominus for double choir and orchestra.
The rhythmic energy and vibrancy of Isabella Leonarda's short setting of Dixit Dominus is reminiscent of Monteverdi. Born in Italy in 1620, Leonarda was a prolific composer who joined a convent at 16 and remained there for the rest of her life where it is likely she wrote most of the sacred music for all performances while maintaining her duties as nun and eventually, Mother Superior.
Written on a grand scale for a large baroque orchestra, chorus and five soloists, Bach‘s Magnificat in D major is one of the best-loved choral works.
Join Whitehall Choir
Sing with one of London’s leading amateur choirs
The Whitehall Choir is always looking for talented singers. We meet during the academic year on Tuesdays, from 6.30 to 9pm, in the Parish Hall of St Peter’s Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL. If you’d like to try us, come to the first or second rehearsal of term. Next term starts on Tuesday, 7 January, when we will start working on a programme of baroque music, including Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Zadok the Priest, for a concert in Cadogan Hall on 26 April.
The choir is friendly, ambitious and energetic – do contact us if you’d like to come along to try out a session, we’d love to meet you.
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Laugh, Sing, Rejoice!
The choir’s latest recording, Laugh, Sing, Rejoice! was released on 7 June. It includes the first recordings of Cecilia McDowall’s Psalm 65, and of William Mathias’s O Clap your Hands. There are also three Shakespeare madrigals set to music by Emma Lou Diemer, and KaTeKiTa by Reena Esmail.
You can listen to the recording on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and other services.