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Blackheath and Bramley Choral Society's delayed concert will be sung by all the planned soloists with our conductor, David Condry, and a full backing orchestra, relayed through YouTube.

All existing tickets will be honoured and new tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite , £15 per head, and ticket holders will be sent access details to the YouTube channel.

SOLOISTS Soprano: Alexandra Stevenson After studying at Edinburgh University, Alexandra was selected for the Associated Studios Opera Programme in London, which she completed with the generous support of the Richard Carne Trust. Alexandra now studies with Andrew Watts and has been coached by Donald Maxwell, Catherine Bott, the late John ShirleyQuirk and Sophie Daneman. Solo performances in cathedrals and concert halls throughout the UK and Europe include works of Bach (Cantata 51); Handel (Messiah); Haydn (Nelson Mass); Mozart (Mass in C Minor) and Rossini (Petite Messe Solennelle). As a recitalist, Alexandra has...

We will be singing Mozart Requiem and Mozart Solemn Vespers this term.

The concert will be held at 7.30 pm on Saturday 28th March at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford.

Tickets available from members of the choir.

Tickets are also available from Guildford Tourist Information Centre

01483 444334

155 High Street, Guildford GU1 3AJ

Mozart's Requiem, the centre of our forthcoming performance, was unfinished at Mozart's death in 1791, and much mystery surrounds the story of its commissioning and composition.The mystery has been enhanced by the popularity of the play and film Amadeus by Peter Schaffer which gives a misleading account and which was itself derived from a 19th century play by Pushkin called Mozart and Salieri. The Requiem was commissioned by an agent acting anonymously for Count Franz von Walsegg. The Count was a minor composer and liked to pass off other peoples music at his own and required the Requiem in memory of his wife who had died the preceding year. At the same time Constanze, M...

Petite Messe Solonelle by Rossini.

This piece was originally written for a small choir of twelve voices consisting of men, women and castrati.  Thankfully it was subsequently revised for bigger choirs (with more readily obtainable members) and alternative accompaniments.  

We will be performing the Ricordi edition.

Concert details: Saturday 30th November 2019 at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. Ticket price £15. 

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Guildford tourist information website

David Condry led three choral workshops in the delightful setting of St Nicholas Church, Peper Harow. 

This is a delightful small church in a hamlet on a large, rural private estate.  Perfect on a summer's evening.

The format each evening was to rehearse three or four short pieces and then perform them to ourselves.

The first in early June was "Romantic Motets" featuring works by Brahms and Mendelssohn; the second "English part songs" by Sullivan, Stanford and Elgar; and the third "Brave New World" - 20th Century sacred music.

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Blackheath and Bramley choral society teamed up with Kingston Orpheus choir, The Chameleon Arts Orchestra, and professional soloists to perform Verdi's Requiem at a sell-out concert in the beautiful setting of Guildford Cathedral.

Requiem - Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

When Rossini died in 1868, Verdi proposed that a Requiem should be written in honour of the great man. Thirteen leading Italian composers, including himself, would each be invited to contribute a movement. Somewhat predictably, initial enthusiasm for the idea soon gave way to all sorts of professional rivalries, and when it also became clear that the piece would be little more than an unconvincing pot-pourri, the scheme had to be abandoned.

In 1873 the Italian poet, novelist and national hero Alessandro Manzoni died. Verdi had been a lifelong admirer and was deeply affected by his death. He decided to write a Requiem in Manzoni’s memory, and began by re-working the Libera me which he had composed five years earlier for...

Saturday1st December 2018

Blackheath and Bramley Choral Society had pleasure in presenting their Christmas concert.

The Christmas Oratorio was written in 1734 by Bach to form part of his cycle of Cantatas for the Lutheran Church Year. The Oratorio is in fact six Cantatas to tell the Christmas story sung on separate days (The three days of Christmas 25/26/27th December, New Year's Day, Sunday after the New Year and Epiphany 6 January). 

We sang three of the Cantatas describing the birth of Christ, the shepherds and the Magi. 

In addition we sang two further Cantatas from the Christmas period - No 61 for the opening of the church year on the first Sunday in Advent, and No 140 (Sleepers awake!) for the last Sunday in the year immediately preceding.