PORTSMOUTH FE FESTIVAL CHOIR 1971 - 2017 THE WORKS SUNG, CONDUCTORS & VENUES 28-Apr-71 Britten Britten Tallis Byrd Tippett Tippett Tippett A Ceremony of C Carols Choral Dances ffrom Gloriana Salvator Mundi Non Vos Relinqu uam Orphanos Plebs Angelica Dance, Clarion, Air Spirituals Portsmouth Guildhall Raymond Calcraft .. Apr 72 Handel JS Bach Faure Concerto Grosso o in B flat, opus 6, no. 7 Cantata no. 159, 'Sehet, wir geh'n hinauf gen Jerusalem' Requiem Wesley Central Hall Portsmouth Raymond Calcraft Palestrina Schutz Bruckner with Havant Choral Society Missa Brevis Magnificat Mass in E minor Arundel Cathedral Raymond Calcraft 04-May-73 Bruckner RVW Mass in E minor Dona Nobis Pace cem Portsmouth Guildhall Raymond Calcraft 08-May-74 Brahms Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall Raymond Calcraft 22-May-74 23-May-74 Bruckner RVW Mass in E minor Dona Nobis Pace cem Mercator Halle Duisburg Raymond Calcraft 14-Jun-75 Handel Haydn Zadok the Priesst Nelson Mass Portsmouth Guildhall John Eliot Gardiner 13-Jul-75 Jacob Handl Tippett Adoramus Te Spirituals Canons and Roun unds Romsey Abbey John Eliot Gardiner 30-Apr-76 Bruckner Mozart Te Deum Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall John Eliot Gardiner 04-Jul-76 Byrd Britten Bach Four part Mass Hymn to St Ceciilia Komm Jesu Kom mm Romsey Abbey Jonathan Rees-Williams 31-Oct-76 Byrd Britten Bach Four part Mass Hymn to St Ceciilia Komm Jesu Kom mm St Phillip's Church Cosham Jonathan Rees-Williams Mass in B minor Royal Festival Hall John Eliot Gardiner Portsmouth Guildhall John Eliot Gardiner 29-Apr-73 JS Bach 09-Feb-77 with the Monteverdi Choir 29-May-77 Walton Balshazzar's Feast ast with P'mouth Choral Union & Polytechnic Choral Soc ociety 09-Jun-77 Holst The Planets (ladies only) Portsmouth Guildhall Sir Charles Groves 27-May-78 Rachmaninov Choral Symphon ny The Bells Portsmouth Guildhall John Eliot Gardiner 26-May-79 Elgar The Music Makers Portsmouth Guildhall Sir Charles Groves 20-Oct-79 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 15-Mar-80 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle St Mary's Church Portsea David Gibson 21-Jun-80 Beethoven Stanford Symphony No 9 Songs of the Sea Portsmouth Guildhall Sir David Willcocks 25-Oct-80 Handel Monteverdi Carissimi Dixit Dominus Beatus Vir Jephte Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 07-Jun-81 Beethoven Missa Solemnis Porstmouth Guildhall Norman del Mar 13-Jun-81 RVW Orff Serenade to Music Carmina Burana Porstmouth Guildhall John Lubbock 31-Oct-81 Vivaldi Haydn Gloria Nelson Mass Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 02-Apr-82 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Porstmouth Guildhall Sir Charles Groves 26-Jun-82 Palestrina Stabat Mater and works by Bruckner Stanford & madrigals Oaklands School Waterlooville David Gibson 04-Jun-83 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky Portsmouth Guildhall Tomasz Bugaj 30-Oct-82 Faure Rossini Pavane Stabat Mater Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 18-Jun-83 19-Jun-83 Gershwin Porgy and Bess Wintergardens Bournemouth & Portsmouth Cathedral Harold Farberman 29-Oct-83 06-Nov-83 JS Bach Handel Handel Jesu Meine Freude Silete Venti Coronation Anthems Portsmouth & Chichester Cathedrals David Gibson 02-Jun-84 Britten with Guildford Choral Society War Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall Richard Hickox 27-Oct-84 Mozart Mozart Solemn Vespers Mass in C Minor Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 27-Apr-85 Tippett Spirituals Walton Three Sitwell Songs and works by Bruckner & Gabrieli Church of the Holy Spirit Southsea David Gibson 01-Jun-85 Rossini Stabat Mater St Mary's Church Portsea David Gibson 26-Oct-85 Haydn Handel Missa Sancti Nicolai Ode on St Cecilia's Day Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 08-Mar-86 Verdi with Basingstoke Choral Society Requiem Park Prewett Hall Basingstoke David Gibson 15-Jun-86 The Trojans Portsmouth Guildhall Roger Norrington Berlioz 25-Oct-86 Faure Finzi Requiem In Terra Pax Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 21-May-87 RVW Flos Campi Portsmouth Guildhall Roger Norrington 31-May-87 Delius Sea Drift Portsmouth Guildhall Bryden Thompson 17-Oct-87 Handel Messiah Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 19-May-88 Bruckner Beethoven Te Deum Symphony No 9 Portsmouth Guildhall Roger Norrington 25-Jun-88 Monteverdi Britten Kodaly Dixit Dominus Hymn to St Cecilia Missa Brevis Church of the Holy Spirit Southsea David Gibson 15-Oct-88 Poulenc Gloria Chichester Cathedral David Gibson Grande Messe des Morts Winchester Cathedral David Gibson 15-Jul-89 Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts with 1500 voices from throughout the UK Royal Albert Hall Brian Wright 21-Oct-89 Thersa Mass The Phoenix and the Turtle Chichester Cathedral David Gibson A Child of Our Time Winchester Cathedral David Gibson .. May 90 Beethoven Symphony No 9 with Bournemouth Symphony Chorus Berne (2 concerts) Eliahu Inval Orff 27-Jul-90 with Portsmouth Choral Union Carmina Burana Portsmouth Guildhall David Gibson 18-Sep-90 Alexander Nevsky Portsmouth Guildhall Alexander Lazarev 10-Oct-90 Prokofiev 11-Oct-90 with City of Duisburg Choir Alexander Nevsky Mercator Halle Duisburg Alexander Lazarev 03-Nov-90 Bruckner Gabrieli Mass in E Minor In Ecclesiis Chichester Cathedral David Gibson 09-Mar-91 Brahms Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall Martin Merry 03-Aug-91 Summer Opera Gala with Portsmouth Choral Union & Opera South Portsmouth Guildhall Martin Merry 19-Oct-91 Mozart Mass in C Minor St Mary's Portsea Martin Merry 30-Nov-91 Handel Messiah (from scratch) St Mary's Portsea Martin Merry 13-Dec-91 Britten A Ceremony of Carols Music for Christmas St Mary's Portsea Martin Merry 27-May-89 Berlioz with Basingstoke Choral Society Haydn Hurd 03-Mar-90 Tippett with Basingstoke Choral Society Prokofiev 11-Apr-92 Haydn JS Bach Stabat Mater Komm Jesu Komm Chichester Cathedral Adrian Lucas 23-May-92 JS Bach Komm Jesu Komm Popular Classics Eglise de St Aubin sur Mer Adrian Lucas 24-May-92 JS Bach Komm Jesu Komm Popular Classics Eglise St Catherine Honfleur Adrian Lucas 27-Jun-92 Parry JS Bach RVW Parry Poulenc I was Glad Komm Jesu Komm Te Deum in G Songs of Farewell Litanies a la Vierge Noir St Mary's Portsea Adrian Lucas 21-Nov-92 Mendelssohn Elijah Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Newberry 03-Apr-93 JS Bach St John Passion Chichester Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 30-May-93 Tippett Spirituals Popular Classics Eglise de St Aubin sur Mer Rupert D'Cruze 29-May-93 Tippett Spirituals Popular Classics Eglise de St Pierre Caen Rupert D'Cruze 12-Jun-93 Tippett Spirituals Popular Classics St James Church Emsworth Rupert D'Cruze 17-Oct-93 Verdi with City of Duisburg Choir Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall Rupert D'Cruze 15-Jan-94 Missa Brevis Psalm 150 Psalm 100 Gloria Church of the Holy Spirit Southsea Rupert D'Cruze 27-Mar-94 Britten with Portsmouth Choral Union War Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall Jonathan Willcocks 10-Jul-94 RVW Genee Matthias Toch Sculthorpe Elgar Serenade to Music Italian Salad Shakespeare Songs Geographical Fugue Sun Music Songs from the Bavarian Highlands Ferneham Hall Rupert D'Cruze 22-Oct-94 Handel Vivaldi Schutz Zadok the Priest Gloria Magnificat Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 04-Feb-95 Haydn Mozart Little Organ Mass Requiem Chichester Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 20-May-95 RVW Brahms Elgar Toward the Unknown Region Liebesliederwalzes Four part-songs Turner-Simms Hall Southampton Rupert D'Cruze 07-Oct-95 Saint-Saens Faure Requiem Requiem Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 03-Feb-96 Bernstein Rutter Chichester Psalms Magnificat Chichester Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze Gregson Arnold RVW Rutter 25-May-96 Rossini 26-May-96 Vivaldi Faure JS Bach Handel with Centra Musica Choir Excerpts from Petite Messe Solenelle Excerpts from the Gloria Excerpts from the Requiem Organ solo Zadok the Priest St Malo Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze Dol de Bretagne Cathedral 22-Jun-96 Petite Messe Solonelle Rossini Hurd Five Spiritual Songs -Commissioned work 25th Anniversary concert Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 19-Oct-96 Handel Bach Chandos Anthem No 9 Magnificat Holy Trinity Church Gosport Rupert D'Cruze 22-Feb-97 Schutz Monteverdi Gabrieli Bruckner Psalm 150 Beatus Vir Jubilate Deo Mass in E Minor Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 04-May-97 Gershwin Excerpts Porgy and Bess Madrigals Part of singing week-end Eartham Church Rupert D'Cruze 21-Jun-97 Hurd Tippett RVW Faure Gregson Five Spiritual Songs Spirituals from Child of Our Time Three Shakespeare Songs Cantique de Jean Racine In the Beginning Oaklands School Waterlooville Rupert D'Cruze 25-Oct-97 Archer Dvorak Requiem Mass in D op.86 Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 21-Feb-98 Haydn Beethoven Te Deum Mass in C Chichester Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 27-Jun-98 Orff Brahms Britten Carmina Burana New Love Song Waltzes Choral Dances from Gloriana Oaklands School Waterlooville Rupert D'Cruze 14-Nov-98 Orff with Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Carmina Burana Huddersfield Town H al Rupert D'Cruze 13-Dec-98 Britten Bach Ceremony of Carols Excerpts Christmas Oratorio Holy Trinity Church Gosport Rupert D'Cruze 20-Mar-99 Handel Elgar Bruckner Britten Coronation Anthems Te Deum and Benedictus Motets Te Deum in C Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 29-May-99 Rutter Toch Gershwin Copland Birthday Madrigals Geographical Fugue Excerpts Porgy and Bess Stomp your Foot Eglise St Gilles Caen Rupert D'Cruze 30-May-99 Rutter Toch Gershwin Copland Hurd Birthday Madrigals Geographical Fugue Excerpts Porgy and Bess Stomp your Foot Excerpts Spiritual songs Abbaye de Rupert D'Cruze Juaye-Mondaye Bayeaux 26-Jun-99 Rutter Toch Gershwin Copland Gilbert/Sullivan Birthday Madrigals Geographical Fugue Excerpts Porgy and Bess Stomp your Foot Excerpts Iolanthe and the Mikado Oaklands School Waterlooville Rupert D'Cruze 06-Nov-99 RVW Brahms with Basingstoke Choral Society Toward the Unknown Region German Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall Rupert D'Cruze 18-Dec-99 Various A Christmas Celebration of Carols Holy Trinity Church Gosport Rupert D'Cruze 04-Mar-00 Durufle Haydn Requiem Theresien Mass Portsmouth Cathedral Rupert D'Cruze 24-Jun-00 German & Hood Merrie England Oaklands School Waterlooville Rupert D'Cruze 20-Aug-00 Various Magrigals Salvatorkirche Duisburg David Petersen 22-Sep-00 Holst The Planets (ladies only) Portsmouth Guildhall Barry Wordsworth Stanford RVW with Basingstoke Choral Society Songs of the Fleet A Sea Symphony The Anvil Basingstoke David Gibson 17-Feb-01 Jesu, Meine Freude Psalm 150 Requiem Portsmouth Cathderal Rupert D'Cruze Gilbert/Sullivan Delius Faure with Ensemble Vocal Arpador Excerpts from HMS Pinafore Songs of Farewell Madrigal Admiral Lord Nelson School Portsmouth Rupert D'Cruze 25-Jun-01 Gilbert/Sullivan HMS Pinafore HMS Warrior Rupert D'Cruze 15-Dec-01 Jongen RVW Poulenc Mass Fantasia on Christmas Carols Quatre Motets our le temps de Noel Carols St Mary's Porsea Rupert D'Cruze 09-Mar-02 Dvorak Elgar Rutter Te Deum Great is the Lord Magnificat Christ Church Portsdown David Truslove 15-Jun-02 Haydn The Seasons Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 02-Nov-02 Mozart Faure St Mary's Portsea David Truslove Taverner Ireland Rachmaninov Mendelssohn Ave Verum Corpus Cantique de Jean Racine Requiem Song for Athene Greater love hath no man Bogoroditsye Dievo Hear My Prayer 15-Dec-02 Various A Christmas Celebration of Carols Christ Church Portsdown David Truslove 12-Apr-03 Janacek Kodaly Bernstein Otcenas Missa Brevis Chichester Psalms St Mary's Portsea David Truslove 05-Jul-03 CPE Bach 06-Jul-03 Mozart with Romsey Choral Society Magnificat Mass in C minor Romsey Abbey and David Truslove Portsmouth Cathderal 15-Nov-03 Turn Back O Man Songs of Farewell Lord Thou hast been our Refuge Requiem St Mary's Portsea 25-Nov-00 JS Bach Britten Rutter 09-Jun-01 Holst Parry RVW Durufle David Truslove 14-Dec-03 Various A Christmas Celebration of Carols St Philip's Church Cosham David Truslove 20-Mar-04 Handel Mozart Nisi Dominus Ave Verum Corpus Requiem Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 29-May-04 Mathias Shearing Rutter Faure Shakespeare Songs Music to Hear Birthday Madrigals Cantique de Jean Racine Hotel de Ville Caen David Truslove 30-May-04 Mathias Shearing Rutter Faure Shakespeare Songs Music to Hear Birthday Madrigals Cantique de Jean Racine Bandstand Houlgate, Normandy David Truslove 26-Jun-04 Mathias RVW Shearing Rutter Shakespeare Songs Serenade to Music Music to Hear Birthday Madrigals Admiral Lord Nelson School Portsmouth David Truslove 27-Nov-04 Handel Messiah Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 05-Mar-05 Faure Faure Chilcott RVW Franck Requiem Cantique de Jean Racine Canticles of Light Five Mystical songs Panis Angelicus St Paul's Church Chichester David Truslove 26-Jun-05 Britten War Requiem Portsmouth Guildhall David Gibson Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove Pergolesi Mozart Gloria In Praise of Mary Maria Mater Gratias Ave Verum Corpus Salve Regina Regina Coeli 17-Dec-05 Britten and Ceremony of Carols Christmas Music Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 18-Mar-06 JS Bach St John Passion Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 24-Jun-06 Rossini Wagner Borodin Verdi Petite Messe Solennelle Bridal March Polovtsian Dances Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves St Paul's Church Chichester David Truslove 09-Dec-06 Handel McDowall Handel Handel Zadok the Priest Ave Maris Stella Birthday Ode to Queen Anne Dettingen Te Deum Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 24-Mar-07 Mozart Bach Mendelssohn Ave verum corpus O Jesu Christ,mein's Lebens Licht Verleih uns Frieden Hear my Prayer German Requiem Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove Animal Magic A light-hearted programme of music And theatre Oaklands School Waterlooville David Truslove with Southampton Philharmonic Choir and the BSO 24-Nov-05 Vivaldi Bush Faure Brahms 30-Jun-07 17-Nov-07 Arvo Part Britten Te Deum Saint Nicolas Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 08-Mar-08 Vivaldi Carissimi Vivaldi Magnificat Jephte Beatus Vir Portsmouth Cathedral David Truslove 28-Jun-08 Lauridsen Coleridge-Taylor Lux Aeterna Hiawatha's Wedding Feast St Paul's Church Chichester Mark Dancer 13-Dec-08 JS Bach Christmas Oratorio Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 28-Mar-09 Haydn The Creation Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 27-Jun-09 Britten RVW Purcell Runswick Rutter Rejoice in the Lamb Serenade to Music Funeral sentences on death of Queen Mary Five American Folksongs Gloria Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 23-Jan-10 Karl Jenkins RVW Choral Suite : The Armed Man Dona Nobis Pacem Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 08-May-10 Verdi Requiem St Mary's Portsea Andrew Cleary with University of Portsmouth and PGS Parents' Choirs 26-Jun-10 Bruckner Mendelssohn Stainer Mass No 2 in E minor Hear My Prayer The Crucifixion Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 11-Dec-10 RVW McDowall Chilcott Fantasia On Christmas Carols Cantata for Christmas Twelve Days of Christmas plus Christmas favourites Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary An informal concert was also held in the afternoon 26-Mar-11 Handel Messiah Full version Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 18-Jun-11 Hurd Bernstein RVW McDowall 40th Anniversary co Five Spiritual Songs Chichester Psalms Five Mystical Songs Shipping Forecast -Commissioned Portsmouth Cathedral Andrew Cleary 10-Dec-11 Purcell Handel Welcome to all the pleasures Gloria Zadok the Priest Dixit Dominus Portsmouth Cathedral Peter Allwood 24-Mar-12 Mozart Mass in C Minor Exultate, jubilate Insanae et vanae curae Te Deum Portsmouth Cathedral Peter Allwood Haydn 23-Jun-12 Rutter Tavener Tippett Carter Britten Five Childhood Lyrics The Lamb, The Tyger Spirituals from a Child of our Time Benedicite Songs from the Little Sweep Admiral Lord Nelson School Portsmouth Peter Allwood 08-Dec-12 Monteverdi JS Bach Handel Vivaldi Beatus Vir Lobet den Herrn The King shall Rejoice Gloria Portsmouth Cathedral Peter Allwood 16-Mar-13 Poulenc Durufle Faure Gloria Requiem Cantique and Pavonne St Mary's Portsea Peter Allwood 24-Jun-13 Alex l'Estrange World Premiere of "AHOY" In conjunction with Portsmouth Festivities Portsmouth Guildhall Sam Gladstone 16-Nov-13 Bach Haydn Magnificat Portsmouth Peter Allwood Nelson Mass Cathedral Christmas Music by Candlelight St Agatha's Church 08-Dec-13 Peter Allwood Portsmouth 05-Apr-14 Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes & German Requiem Portsmouth Peter Allwood Cathedral 21-Jun-14 Carl Orff Carmina Burana Portsmouth Constant Lamber Rio Grande In conjunction with Portsmouth Festivities Cathedral 15-Nov-14 To Commemorate the First World War Portsmouth Bawtree " 1914 …and they went to war " ( a new work ) Cathedral Finzi Farewell to Arms Elgar The Spirit of England Parry Jerusalem Archer At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners 14-Dec-14 Christmas Music by Candlelight St Agatha's Peter Allwood Peter Allwood Peter Allwood Church - Portsmouth 28-Mar-15 JS Bach St John's Passion Portsmouth Peter Allwood Cathedral 25-Jun-15 Purcell's Opera My Heart is Inditing Portsmouth Dido and Aeneas Cathedral Peter Allwood Part of Portsmouth Festivitie 14-Nov-15 13-Dec-15 Mozart Laudate Dominum Portsmouth McDowall Ave Maris Stella Cathedral Mendelssohn Hear my prayer/ O for the wings of a dove Britten Te Deum in C Rutter Magnificat Chilcott Wenceslas St James Church Peter Allwood Peter Allwood 05-Mar-16 Sacred Romantic French programme Portsmouth Franck Psalm 150 Cathedral Debussy Danse Sacree et Danse Profane for Harp and Peter Allwood orchestra 11-Jun-16 Faure Messe Basse Saint-Saens Quam Dilecta Faure Requiem Thomas Morley The First Booke of Ayres 1600 R Vaughan Williams Excerpts from Three Elizabethan Partsongs, Serenade to Music William Mathias Excerpts from Shakespeare Songs Franz Schubert An Sylvia ( Who is Sylvia ) Church of the Holy Spirit, Southsea Peter Allwood arr Peter Allwood 26-11-16 11-12 16 John Gardner Fear no more the heat o the sun Alexander L’Estrange Full Fathom Five from Ahoy John Rutter Excerpts from Birthday Madrigals Holst Two Psalms Bawtree Remembrance Britten St Nicolas Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols Portsmouth Cathedral Peter Allwood St James Church Peter Allwood 01.04.17 Labinski We Sing to Thee Tchaikovsky The Lord’s Prayer from the Liturgy of St John Christendom, op 41 Stravinsky The Lord’s Prayer Janacek Ave Maria Janacek The Lord’s Prayer Dvorak Mass in D major, Op 86 Portsmouth Cathedral Thomas Neal
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