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The choir has performed in over 80 concerts since 1978 singing music from around the world and from composers new and old. This is an ongoing project to catalog of all the concerts, venues and pieces we have performed so if you can fill in any gaps, please let us know.
 

70's 80's 90's 00's
 
In the list below, the following abbreviations are used for the venue:
SMC St Michael's Church, Highworth   WS Warneford School, Highworth
RC Recreation Centre, Highworth   HC Hannington Church
MH Methodist Hall / Church, Highworth   HW URC, Haydon Wick, Swindon
SLC St Lawrence's Church, Lechlade   LPC Lechlade Parish Church
WPS Westrop Primary Sch Highworth   CPC Cirencester Parish Church
PC Pilgrim Centre, Swindon   SPC St Philip's Church, Stratton
TA Tewkesbury Abbey   PON   Eglise Romane Notre Dame, Pontorson
 
Date
Programme
Venue
March 2010

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
Bruckner: Te Deum

SMC
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December 2009

Angels, from the realms of glory
Haydn: Creation:
   The heavens are telling
    Awake the harp
    Achieved is the glorious work
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus (And audience - BBC Sing Hallelujah)
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Quelle est cette odeur agreable?
Deck the Hall
In the bleak midwinter
The Holly and the Ivy
Il est ne le divin enfant
See amid the winter's snow
O come all ye faithfull
Arr. Chinn: Christmas Auld Lang Syne

SMC
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July 2009

Gilbert & Sullivan Selection:
    Eagle high in cloudland soaring (Utopia Ltd)
    Brightly dawns our wedding day (The Mikado)
    I hear the soft note (Patience)
    When the buds are blossoming (Ruddigore)
    A nice dilemma (Trial by Jury)
    Hail poetry (The Pirates of Penzance)
W.A. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro:
    Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen (duet)
W.A. Mozart: The Magic Flute:
    Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (solo)
Franz Lehar: The Merry Widow: Vilja (solo)
Gilbert & Sullivan: Mikado: Three little maids are we (trio)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert with Phantom of the opera (duet)
Richard M Sherman: The beautiful briny sea (solo)
Alan Ayckbourn & Andrew Lloyd Webber: By Jeeves:
    Half a moment (solo)
Rodgers & Hammerstein:
    Sound of Music: Maria (altos)
    South Pacific: I'm gonna wash that man right out of my         hair (altos)
Irwin Kostal: Sister suffragette (altos)
W.A Mozart: Don Giovanni: La ci darem la mano (piano duet)
Jo
hann Strauss: Die Fledermaus: Walz (piano duet)
John Ireland: Her song (solo)
Claude-Michel Schonberg: Les Misérables Choral Medley with
Stars (solo)

WS
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May 2009

Charles Hubert Parry: I was glad
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave Verum
Thomas Tallis: If you love me
Samuel Wesley: Air et Gavotte
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man:
    Kyrie
    Sanctus
Bruckner: Motets : Locus iste and Os justi
Vivaldi: Extracts
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Rutter:
    When the Saints Go Marching In
    Down By The Riverside
Gordon Young: Prélude dans le Style Classique
Elgar: As Torrents In Summer
Paul Simon: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Lloyd Webber: Love changes everything
Extracts from Les Misérables

PON

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April 2009 Rossini: Stabat Mater
Handel: Messiah Parts 2 and 3
SMC
December 2008 Bach: Sleepers Wake
John Rutter: When Icicles Hang
Carols and Christmas Music
SMC
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July 2008 Choral Songs:
    Dance to your Daddy, Loch Lomond, Ye Banks and Braes,
    Bobby Shaftoe, Yarmouth Fair, I Love My Love,
    Linden Lea, Greensleeves, The Ash Grove, Suo Gan
Instrumemtals:
    Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (piano duet)
    Elgar: Salut d'Amour (piano solo)
Solo songs:
    Feed The Birds (Sherman & Sherman)
    The Slow Train (Flanders & Swann)
    Someone Is Sending Me Flowers (Baker, arr. Vignoles)
    Is My Team Ploughing? (Butterworth)
Excerpts from "My Fair Lady" (Lerner & Loewe)
WS
April 2008 Parry: I Was Glad
Handel: Rejoice Greatly (solo)
Karl Jenkins: Choral Suite from "The Armed Man"
John Rutter: Requiem
Handel: Hallelujah
SMC
December 2007 Bach: Christmas Oratorio Part One
Carols, Christmas Music and Readings
SMC
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July 2007 Rouget de Lisle: La Marseillaise
Lassus: Bonjour Mon Coeur
Offenbach arr. Farnie: The Gendarmes
Various: Accordion Solos
Rogers & Hammerstein: Some Enchanted Evening (solo)
Rogers & Hammerstein: Dites-Moi (solo)
Gymnopédies No. 1 (piano solo)
Trenet/Chauliac: La Mer (solo)
Fauré: Au Bord de la Mer (solo)
Fauré: Pavane (choral version)
Dumont/Vaucaire: No Regrets (solo)
Martini: Plaisir d'Amour (solo)
Excerpts from Carmen, Gigi, Les Miserables
WS
March 2007 Haydn: Nelson Mass
Bruckner: Six Motets
Two pieces by Highworth Warneford School Choir
SMC
December 2006 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Carols and Christmas Music
SMC
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July 2006 Randall Thompson : Alleluia
John Deaton: Yah Boo! (Shakespeare?) (solo; first performance)
Schubert: Song of the Sailors to the Dioskuren (solo)
Taylor/Mizzi/Hoffman: The Sailor with the Navy Blue Eyes (solo)
Walter Carroll: Four Sea Idylls (piano solo)
Schubert: The Trout (solo)
Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Elgar: As Torrents in Summer
Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore (Concert version: abridged)
WS
April 2006 Mozart: Vesperae Sollennes de Confessore K339
Fauré: Requiem
SMC
December 2005 Vivaldi: Gloria in D RV 589
Carols and Christmas Music
SMC
October 2005 Come and Sing: Haydn's Creation MH
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July 2005 Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Parry: I Was Glad
Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Haydn: The Heavens Are Telling
Handel: Zadok The Priest
Vaughan Williams: Two songs from "Songs of Travel" (solo)
Lerner & Loewe: Three numbers from "My Fair Lady" (solos)
Mancini: Moon River
Paul Simon: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Michael Head: Money O! (solo)
Trad. arr. John Rutter: Down By The Riverside
Gershwin: Summertime
Trad. arr John Rutter: When The Saints Go Marching In
Edward Pearse: Two Galliards for Lute
Handel: Sonata in F Opus 1 No. 11 for Flute & Piano
Trad. arr. John Whitworth: The Mermaid
Parry: Jerusalem
arr. Elgar: God Save The Queen
WS
March 2005 Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
SMC
December 2004 Messiah Part 1 (plus "Hallelujah" chorus)
Carols and Christmas Music
SMC
July 2004 Flanders/Horovitz: Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

Gilbert & Sullivan: Love duet from Pirates of Penzance
Noël Coward : Has Anyone Seen Our Ship? (Duet)
Charles Trenet : La Mer (Solo)
John Ireland : The Bells of San Marie / Sea Fever (Solos)
Marriott Edgar : The 'Ole In The Ark (Recitation)
Thomas Campion : Never, Weather-Beaten Sail (Lute Song)
Various : Medley of Nautical / Watery songs for Choir and Audience
Thomas Arne : Rule Britannia (Soloist, Choir and Audience)
WS
March 2004 Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle RC
December 2003 Christmas Around the World:
Tučapský : Koleda (Czech)
Walters/Kennerley : Iona
Sargent : Hawaiian Lullaby
Adam, A : O Holy Night
Sargent : Two Mexican Carols
    Jesus Sleeps
    Earth's Joy
Carter :Two Spanish Carols:
    Spanish Lullaby
    Spanish Carol
Sargent : To a baby (Greek)
Hodge : The Baby Saviour
SMC
October 2003 'Voices for Hospices' in aid of Prospect Foundation
Vitier : Misa Cubana (Excerpts)
Faure : Cantique de Jean Racine
Rutter : When the Saints go marching in
Rutter : Down by the riverside
Rutter : The Music's Always There With You
Mercury : Bohemian Rhapsody
Andrew Lloyd Webber : In Concert
Simmons : Every Time I Feel The Spirit
Simmons : Give Me That Old Time Religion
SMC
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July 2003 Lloyd Webber : In Concert
Freddie Mercury : Bohemian Rhapsody
Cole Porter : Let's do it
Keith Read/Gary Brooker : A whiter shade of pale
Cole Porter : Begin the beguine
Carter : Deep Purple
Rutter : The music's always there with you
Lloyd Webber : Tell me on a Sunday
Lloyd Webber : You must love me
Lloyd Webber : All I ask of you
Lloyd Webber : Close every door
Wayne & Morris : Blue Velvet
Sharman : Doll on a music box
Dire Straits : Romeo & Juliet
WS
April 2003 Rutter : When the Saints go marching in
Simmons : Every time I feel the spirit
Simmons : Give me that old time religion
Rutter : Down by the riverside

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Soloist : Raymond Burley
Orchestra : Wessex Sinfonia

José María Vitier : UK Premiere of Misa Cubana
Soloists : Matthew Haynes
               Louise Lloyd
               Sharon Lloyd Orchestra : Wessex Sinfonia

How we came to perform a UK Premiere

RC
December 2002 Poulenc : Christmas Motets
Geoffrey Bush : Christmas Cantata
Bullard : Follow the Star
SMC
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July 2002 W S Gilbert & A Sullivan : Pirates of Penzance (abridged) WS
April 2002 Carter : Laudate Dominum
Tavener : Song for Athene
Lotti : Crucifixus
Mozart : Missa Brevis in D Minor
SMC
December 2001 Rutter : When Icicles Hang
Bardos : Ave Maris Stella
Villette : Hymne à la Vierge
Britten : A Hymn to the Virgin
Marks : Rudolphus Rubrinasus
Rutter : Jesus Child
SMC
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June 2001 Boublil & Schönberg : Les Miserables (Excerpts)
Various Spirituals
WS
April 2001 Vaughan Williams : Dona Nobis Pacem
Fauré : Requiem

SMC

December 2000 Bach : Christmas Oratorio

SMC

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Summer 2000 No concert WS
April 2000 Handel : Messiah RC
December 1999 Charpentier : Messe De Minuit SMC
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Summer 1999    
April 1999 Poulenc : Gloria
Fauré :Motets
Franck :Motets
Debussy :Motets
Saint-Saens :Motets
Villette :Motets
Duruflé :Motets
SMC
December 1998 Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on Christmas Carols SMC
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Summer 1998    
May 1998 Rossini : Stabat Mater
Karl Jenkins : Adiemus (Warneford School Choir)
RC
December 1997 Vivaldi : Gloria
Finzi : In Terra Pax
SMC
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June 1997 Captain Noah and his floating zoo WS
April 1997 Concert of English Sacred Music:
Finzi : Magnificat
Byrd : Ave verum corpus
Tallis : If ye love me
Purcell : Thou knowest, Lord the secrets of our hearts
Purcell : Hear my prayer, O Lord
Britten : Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Vittoria
Parry : I was glad
Stanford : Justorum animae
Stanford : Beati quorum via
Whitlock : Folk Tune
Rutter : Toccata in Seven
Wood : O thou the central orb
Wesley : Wash me thoroughly
Bridge : Adagio in E
Harris : Faire is the heaven
Howells : My eyes for beauty pine
Rutter : The Lord bless you and keep you
SMC
December 1996    
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July 1996 Opened the Highworth Festival : RC
April 1996 Mozart : Requiem in D Minor
As part of the Highworth Festival
RC
December 1995 Handel : Zadok the Priest; Parry and Bruckner Motets SMC
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Summer 1995    
Spring 1995 Rossini : Petit Messe Solennelle PC & SMC
December 1994 Bach : Christmas Oratorio (Excerpts) SMC
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Summer 1994 W S Gilbert & A Sullivan : Various solos & choruses WS
23April 1994 Mendelssohn : Elijah SMC
27 April 1994 Mendelssohn : Elijah
With Swindon Choral Society
PC
December 1993 Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Vivaldi : Gloria
SMC
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February 1993   MH
1993 Haydn : Nelson Mass  
December 1992 Handel : Messiah  
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November 1992 Charity concert for the Children's Society :
Various choral items
SPS
September 1992 W S Gilbert & A Sullivan : HMS Pinafore
As part of the Highworth Festival
WS
April 1992 Fauré : Requiem
Haydn : Spring (The Seasons)
Mendelssohn : Hear my prayer
SMC
December 1991 Monteverdi : Beatus vir SMC
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Summer 1991    
Spring 1991    
December 1990 Dvorak : Te deum
Parry : Blest pair of sirens
SMC
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Summer 1990 Loewe : My fair lady (Excerpts) WS
Spring 1990 Fauré : Requiem SMC
December 1989 Mendelssohn : Hymn of Praise SMC
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October 1989 Brahms : Requiem (Excerpts) SMC
Summer 1989 Bernstein : West Side Story (Excerpts) WS
Spring 1989 Charity concert for Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (ARC)
Brahms : Requiem (Excerpts)
Mendelssohn : Hymn of Praise
TA
December 1988 Haydn : Creation SMC
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Summer 1988 Popular opera choruses and arias WS
Spring 1988 Charity concert for Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (ARC)
Puccini : Messa de Gloria
SMC
December 1987    
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Summer 1987    
Spring 1987    
December 1986 Handel : Messiah (Excerpts) SMC
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October 1986 Edward German : Tom Jones concert version WS
Spring 1986    
December 1985 Bach :
Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on Christmas Carols
SMC
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July 1985 Purcell : Dido and Aeneas  
March 1985 Mozart : Requiem SMC
December 1984 Handel : Messiah, Part I  
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July 1984 German : Merrie England WS
April 1984 Mendelssohn : Elijah SMC
December 1983 Britten : St Nicholas  
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July 1983 Purcell : Dido and Aeneas MH
March 1983 Fauré : Requiem SMC
December 1982 Bach : Magnificat SMC
1982 Victoria : Missa O Magnum Mysterium
            : Let us break bread together
Stainer : God so loved the world (Crucifixion)
Mozart : Ave Verum Corpus
Sullivan : The long day closes
HW
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July 1982 Vaughan Williams : The dark eyed sailor
Vaughan Williams : The spring time of the year
Vaughan Williams : Just as the tide was flowing
Vaughan Williams : The turtle dove
Passereau : Il est bel et bon
Matyas Seiber : The unfaithful lover
Matyas Seiber : Handsome Mirko
Matyas Seiber : Eighteen shining buttons
Matyas Seiber : Heaven above
Matyas Seiber : Hussars
Matyas Seiber : Fairy tale
Gavotte for Bach
Overture the magic carpet
Strauss : The blue Danube
Spirituals
Summertime
Farmer : Fair Phyllis
Bennett : Weep O mine eyes
            : Let us break bread together
Sullivan : The long day closes
MH
Spring 1982 Stainer : Crucifixion SMC
December 1981 Vivaldi : Gloria
Mendelssohn : Two Christmas pieces
Shaw & Bennett : Many moods of Christmas
                        : I saw a maiden
                        : The shepherd's cradle song
Bach : Break forth O beauteous heavenly light
With the Highworth Silver Band
SMC
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Summer 1981    
April 1981 Handel : Messiah SMC
December 1980 Handel : Messiah (Excerpts)
Lloyd Webber : Meeting place - a meditation of the birth of Christ
SMC
September 1980 Bach : Praise we the name of the Lord
Wesley : Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Brahms : In silent night
            : The Isle of Mull
Morley : Now is the gentle season
            : Now is the month of maying
Shaw : I know a bank
Armstrong : Five eyes
                 : The lark in the clear air
Copland : Ching a ring chaw
Webbe : Belmont
Haydn : The heavens are telling (Creation)
SMC
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April 1980 Fauré : Requiem
Handel : Messiah (Excerpts)
SMC
April 1980 Fauré : Requiem
Handel : Messiah (Excerpts)
SLC
December 1979 Purcell : Rejoice in the Lord SMC
December 1979 Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on Christmas carols LPC
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July 1979 Byrd : Non nobis domine
Purcell : Rejoice in the Lord
Warlock : Ha lulu low
Warlock : Pretty ring time
Gibbons : The silver swan
Robinson : All in an April evening
Wesley : Blessed be the God and Father
Bonheur : The battle eve
Wilkinson : Peter go ring dem bells
Cashmole : O waly waly
Harker : The owl and the pussy cat
Adams : The holy city 
WPS
June 1979 Concert of English Music CPC
April 1979 Matyas Seiber : Three Hungarian folk songs
Vaughan Williams : In Windsor forest
Schumann : The walnut tree
Vivaldi : Gloria
SMC
December 1978 First concert by The Highworth Choral Society SMC
     
     
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