Past Concerts

We list here our past concert performances over the past thirty years or more.

2023 – 2024 

June 2024 :  "Summer in France" French music by Fauré etc including Duruflé's Requiem.

March 2024 : Angus Ross concert - Karl Jenkins "The Armed Man"  

December 2023 :  Christmas Concert

November 2023 when we performed Rossini's 'Petite Messe Solonnelle' in St.Mary's church, Horsham, a highly successful and appreciated concert.

2022 - 2023

June 2023 : 'The King's Music'.  A concert of music known to be liked by the new King Charles lll , and pieces performed at his Coronation, including Handel's Coronation Anthems "Zadok the Priest" and "My heart is inditing", and various pieces by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Elgar and Ireland.

March 2023 : Angus Ross Concert - Mozart's Requiem

December 2022 :  Christmas Concert

November 2022 :  Haydn’s Harmoniemesse and Vivaldi’s Gloria

2022

March :  Angus Ross Concert - Fauré's Requiem

April :  "HAPPY & GLORIOUS!"   A concert in honour of Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee, including Parry "I Was Glad", Stanford's "Coronation Gloria" and Handel's Coronation Anthems "Zadok the Priest" and pieces by Vaughan Williams.

2021 

No concerts were held in the 2020 - 2021 season because of the Covid pandemic.  Performances resumed in the autumn of 2021 with a Christmas Concert in Big School, Christ's Hospital.

2020

Angus Ross - Concert cancelled because of the Covid pandemic and no other performances took place that year

2019
November  "Music of Freedom and Destiny"
                        Brahms' "Schicksalslied"
                        John Rutter's "Feel the Spirit"
                        "Va, pensiero" or the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Verdi's Nabucco

Summer       "Songs of Town and Countryside"
                         Vaughan Williams ‘Five Mystical Songs’ 
                         Bob Chilcott ‘Songs and Cries of London Town’
                         Mae ‘nghariadd I’n Fenws’, arranged by Gustav Holst

Angus Ross  Messiah - Handel

2018
November  Remembrance theme -
                        For the Fallen - Edward Elgar
                         Funeral Sentences for the funeral of Queen Mary
Summer      Five Mystical Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
                        Songs - Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst
                        The Songs and Cries of London Town - Bob Chilcott

Angus Ross   Magnificat - Rutter

2017    
November    Petite Messe Solonnelle - Rossini

Summer        Music for a Summer’s Evening
                          Sprig of Thyme – Rutter
                          From the Bavarian Highlands – Elgar
                          Madrigals

Angus Ross   Requiem - Rutter

2016 
November    Music from the Royal Fireworks
                          The King Shall Rejoice, Handel
                         Gloria – Vivaldi
Summer      Music for a Royal Occasion: inc  Zadok the Priest , Ave Verum etc.
Spring       Requiem – Rutter, Give Unto the Lord – Elgar, Cantique de Jean Racine – Faure, Motet Jesu Meine Freude – Bach
Angus Ross          Requiem – Faure

2015
November        Nelson Mass – Haydn
Summer        Music for a Summer’s Evening: Mendelssohn, 
Vaughan Williams, Michael Tippett
Angus Ross        Carmina Burana - Orff

2014
November        Requiem – Faure, The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins
Summer    Music for a Summer’s Evening: – Gilbert & Sullivan, My Fair Lady
Angus Ross    The Creation – Haydn

2013
November    Beethoven’s  9th Symphony with Horsham Symphony Orchestra at the Capitol, Song of Destiny – Brahms.
Summer    Madrigals to Musicals
Angus Ross    St Nicolas – Benjamin Britten, Zimbe – Alexander L’Estrange

2012
November    Messiah – Handel
Summer    Music for a Royal Celebration: Zadok the Priest, Festival Te Deum, O Taste & See, I Was Glad..
Angus Ross    Requiem - Verdi

2011
November    Music for Remembrance:  Eternal Light – Howard Goodall, Little Organ Mass – Haydn
Summer    The Gondoliers – G&S at Shipley Church
Angus Ross    I was Glad – Parry, Belshazzar’s Feast – Walton

2010
November    Remembrance Concert: Mass in D – Dvorak, For the Fallen – Douglas Guest, Beatitudes – Arvo Part
Summer    Summer Songs:  Folk, Gospel & Spirituals inc. A Sprig of Thyme – Rutter
Angus Ross    Dream of Gerontius – Elgar

2009    
November    Solemn Vespers – Mozart, Requiem – Durufle
Summer    Trills & Tiaras:   Opera extracts
Angus Ross    Nelson Mass – Haydn,  Gloria – Vivaldi

2008
November    Messe Solonnelle de Saint Cecile – Gounod, Te Deum – Bizet
Summer    HMS Pinafore – G&S  including reprise at Wisborough Green Church
Angus Ross    Ein Deutsches Requiem – Brahms

2007
November    Messe de Minuit and Te Deum – Charpentier
Summer    ??
Angus Ross    Chichester Psalms,  Copland Appalachian Spring

2006
November    Requiem – Rutter,   Requiem – Faure
Angus Ross    Messiah – Handel

2005
Angus Ross    Carmina Burana – Orff,  Gloria – Poulenc

2004
November    The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins
Angus Ross    Requiem – Haydn,  Laudate Dominum – Mozart

2003
Angus Ross    Alexander Nevsky – Prokofiev

2002    
November    Magnificat – Vivaldi, Nelson Mass – Haydn
Angus Ross    Requiem – Verdi

2001    
Angus Ross    St Matthew Passion – Bach

2000
Angus Ross    Belshazzar’s Feast – Walton

1999

1998
Angus Ross    Mass in C Minor – Mozart

1997
Angus Ross    The Creation – Haydn

1996
Angus Ross    Requiem – Verdi

1995
November - Baroque Music, including two settings of Psalm 112, Beatus Vir by Monteverdi and Vivaldi and two chorales by Bach.
Angus Ross    St Matthew Passion – Bach

1994
Angus Ross    Requiem – Mozart

1993
Angus Ross    A German Requiem – Brahms

1992
Angus Ross    Mass in B Minor – Bach

1991
Angus Ross    Messiah – Handel

1990
Angus Ross    Boris Gudunov – Mussorgsky

1989
Angus Ross    Requiem – Faure

1988
Angus Ross    Dream of Gerontius – Elgar

1987
Angus Ross    Carmina Burana – Orff