Our next concert on 18th June celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and our return to live performance. Tickets available online 

The programme includes:

Fauré’s Requiem

Handel’s Zadok the Priest

Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine.

Parry’s I Was Glad

Vaughan Williams’ O Taste and See

Ian Hockley, organist

Chris McDade, conductor

Phoebe Curcher, Soprano Soloist 

Tom Asher, Baritone Soloist

7:00pm Saturday 18^th June 2022, at Falklands Chapel, Pangbourne College

This concert features wonderful lyrical works by Gabriel Fauré together with three coronation anthems.

Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. It is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. The Cantique dates from 1865 when Faure was twenty years old and earned him a premier prix in composition at the École Niedermeyer in Paris.

We have soprano and baritone soloists – Phoebe is in her final year at Pangbourne College and going on to study voice. Tom is an alumnus of ENO’s Opera Works, a graduate of the University of Durham and the Royal Northern College of Music. He performs regularly as a soloist throughout the UK and internationally. Performances include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral; Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Blackburn Cathedral.

It is our first concert led by our new music director Chris McDade – who has seen us through the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. It promises to be an uplifting event.

Tickets £10 (18 & under £5) are available from Choral Society members, at Garlands Organic and Natural in Pangbourne, on the night on the door, and online by clicking this button:  

All plans are dependant upon government guidelines due to Covid-19. Please check our website regularly to see status.