2004/05 Season

Choral Masterworks

Saturday 18 September 2004, 7.30pm
St Matthew’s Parish Church, Hayfield, High Peak.

Music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Fauré and Gibbons
Organ favourites – Graham Eccles

Mendelssohn – Elijah

Sunday 28 November 2004, 7.30pm
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Willard White with Mary Plazas, Sara Fulgoni and Mark Padmore

The Manchester Camerata

Your Favourite Carols by Candlelight in aid of Cancer Research UK

Saturday 4 December 2004, 7.30pm
Manchester Cathdral

Reader – Martin Henfield (BBC North West Tonight Presenter)
Pennine Brass
Organ – Jeffrey Makinson

Your Favourite Carols by Candlelight

Saturday 11 December 2004, 7.30pm
St George’s Church, Stockport

Reader – Brigit Forsyth
Cornet – John Lees (British Junior and Intermediate Slow Melody Champion)

Saturday 15 January 2005, 7pm
St George’s Church, Poynton.

Singing Day VIII – English Voices

Music by Elgar, Finzi, Gibbons, Morley, Pearsall, Stanford and Vaughan Williams.

An opportunity for the whole community, young, old, novice and expert to come together and enjoy the experience of producing a concert in one day.

Organ – Graham Eccles

Gretchaninov – Vespers

Friday 11 March 2005, 8pm
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Oxford Road, Manchester.

A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg, Gretchaninov has been described as the most representative composer of his generation writing for the Orthodox service. His stunning setting of the Vespers is part of the All-Night Vigil service, and was composed, premièred and published in 1912, preceding Rachmaninov’s setting by 3 years.

Friday 20 May 2005, 7.30pm
Emmanuel Church, Didsbury

El Café Chorale

Come and hear Latin America’s premier choir, the internationally renowned El Café Chorale, at the only two UK concerts of their European tour.

El Café Chorale

Saturday 21 May 2005, 7.30pm
St George’s Church, Poynton

Your second chance to hear Latin America’s premier choir, this time in a joint concert with St George’s Singers.

St George’s Singers on Tour

Saturday 28 May 2005, 7.30pm
Aldeburgh Church

Britten – Saint Nicolas
European Sacred Music

Tenor – Michael Bennett

Sunday 29 May 2005, 7.30pm
Blythburgh Church

St George’s Singers on Tour

Mozart – Requiem
European Sacred Music

Soprano – Amy Wood
Mezzo-Soprano – Rebecca Anderson
Tenor – Michael Bennett
Baritone – Marcus Farnsworth