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2024 CONCERTS
Britain and the Netherlands – 27 June
A programme of music from the Renaissance to the present day from Britain and the Netherlands, in celebration of the choir’s tour to Utrecht.
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 7:30pm
St Peter’s Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL
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
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
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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Review of concert from Planet Holborn
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
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
7 April: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2
- Mozart Requiem
Paul Spicer – conductor; The Brandenburg Sinfonia
2010 Concerts
14 December 2010: St Stephen’s, SW1
- Carol concert
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
3 July:St John’s, Smith Square, SW1
- Haydn Paukenmesse
- Weber Mass in E Flat
Conductor – Paul Spicer; The Brandenburg Sinfonia
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
22 March: Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A
- Poulenc Chansons Francaises
- Ravel Sonatine (piano solo)
- Puccini Messa di Gloria
Paul Spicer – conductor; James Longford – piano
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
27 November:St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1
- Handel Judas Maccabaeus
With the London Baroque Sinfonia
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
6 April: The Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A
- Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
- Brahms Vier Quartetten
Paul Spicer – conductor; the longfordbrown piano duo
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
4 December: St Marylebone Parish Church, NW1
- Fairest Flower of Any Field – Music for the season of Christmas
Paul Spicer – conductor; Stephen Disley – organ
A CD of music from this concert is available.
1 November: Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Ave, Clapham, SW4
- Haydn Nelson Mass
Scratch performance with Paul Spicer, conductor, and Richard Pearce, piano
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
10 April: Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, SW1
- Monteverdi 1610 Vespers
Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia
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
16 November: St John’s, Smith Square, London, SW1
- Handel Saul
Paul Spicer – conductor; Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
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
7 July: St John’s, Smith Square
- Mozart Mass in C minor K427 (Robert Levin completion)
Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia
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
5 May: Basilique Notre Dame la Daurade, Toulouse
30 March: St John’s, Smith Square
- Bach St Mark Passion
Paul Spicer – conductor; London Baroque Sinfonia
2006 Concerts
12 December: St Stephen’s Church, Rochester Row
- Christmas concert – a seasonal programme of music
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
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
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