MUSIC FROM THE BRITISH ISLES
with Bendigo Chorale
Come with us on a journey from the Renaissance until now  –
a cappella songs, folk songs, Parry, Elgar, Britten, Rutter, Jenkins, and more!
Saturday 31 May 2025 – Bendigo
Saturday 14 June 2025 – Brighton
 

MUSIC FROM THE ‘NEW WORLD’

Join us for our second concert in 2025
as we focus on songs from the American continent…
and in the lead-up to Christmas of course we will sing some carols!

Saturday 29 November 2025
St Andrew’s Anglican Church
228 New St Brighton 3186

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Past Concerts

PROGRAM

  • A CEREMONY OF CAROLS – a dramatic concert work with medieval texts and poems set to music which ranges from plainsong to lyrical songs set around the Christmas story.
  • Traditional Christmas songs … The three Kings (Cornelius) , Shepherds’ farewell, (Berlioz).
  • Christmas carols with the audience … Hark, the herald angels sing, Away in a manger and O come all ye faithful.

Read the full program here: Program – A Ceremony of Carols 7 December 2024

PROGRAM

  • Mozart: Laudate Dominum
  • Mozart: Alleluia
  • JENKINS: REQUIEM
‘Karl Jenkins’ Requiem sets the traditional Latin text of the Requiem mass, …interspersed with haiku “death” poems (sung in Japanese) whose delicate, epigrammatic texts provide a peaceful commentary on the liturgical words. The result is a deeply moving expression of spirituality, whose musical tying together of different cultures provides a link that is highly appropriate to the modern world.’  (Boosey & Hawkes)

Listen to the choir in rehearsal here and  here 

Read the full program here: Program Karl Jenkins Requiem 22 June 2024

 

PROGRAM

  • Silent Night
  • Bach: Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
  • Mary Marsh: Baby’s born in Bethlehem
  • Langlais: C’etait a l’heure du minuit
  • Rutter: Candlelight Carol &  Gaelic Blessing
  • Four Australian Carols
  • plus join in singing some well-known carols!

Read the full program here: Program Christmas Concert 9 December 2023

PROGRAM

  • Gershwin: BIRTH OF THE BLUES, I got rhythm, Porgy and Bess medley
  • Traditional: Sweet and Low, Rock-a my soul, Rose of Tralee, Ev’ry time I feel the spirit, Home on the range
  • Schumann Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), nos 1-7

Read the full program here: Program Birth of the Blues 28 October 2023

PROGRAM

  • Joseph Haydn: MISSA BREVIS SANCTI JOANNIS DE DEO
  • Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, No 2
  • John Rutter: Gaelic Blessing
  • Josef Rheinberger: STABAT MATER

Read full program here: Program – Missa Brevis & Stabat Mater 27 May 2023

PROGRAM

  • America – Bernstein
  • Go down Moses – Hayes
  • Canto alla Communione and C’etait a l’heure deminuit – Langlais  
  • Cantique de Jean Racine  – Fauré
  • Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod
  • Ave Verum – Mozart
  • A red, red rose – Mulholland
  • excerpts from Gloria – Vivaldi
  • favourites from The Sound of Music – Rodgers & Hammerstein 

Read the full program here: Program – A Palette of Sound 22 October 2022

PROGRAM

  • For the beauty of the earth and The Lord bless you and keep you  (Rutter)
  • Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber)
  • Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré)
  • GLORIA in D MAJOR (RV 589) – Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Read the full program here: Program Vivaldi’s Gloria 5 June 2022

Glen Eira City Choir 2022