Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir

Past Concerts

Thornesian Singers

June 17th 1989
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb; Duruflé Ubi caritas; Philip Bullock Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder; Burge Sunblue; Kodaly Missa Brevis. (Conductor: Gareth Green)

Yorkshire Chamber Choir

June 16th, 1990
Haydn Insanae et vanae curae; Mozart Sancta Maria, Mater Dei; Mendelssohn Hear my Prayer; Elgar Give unto the Lord; Schubert Mass in G. (with Charles Beal, Patrick Heley)
November 3rd 1990
Duruflé Requiem; Four motets on Gregorian Chants; Messiaen O Sacrum Convivium; Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine (with Judith Pearson, Patrick Heley).
March 9th 1991
Kodely Jesus and the traders; Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing; Tchaikovsky Legend; Stainer The Crucifixion. (with Charles Beal, Patrick Heley)
June 15th 1991
Purcell Come ye Sons of Art; Mozart 'Coronation' Mass in C. (with Judith Pearson, Justine Bradshaw, Simon Barton, Douglas Jones, John Dunford, Patrick Heley)
April 4th 1992
Rossini Petite Messe solennelle; Faure Cantique de Jean Racine. (with Judith Pearson, Jane Hobson, Melvyn White, Patrick Heley) [This concert was in Wakefield Town Hall as part of the Wakefield Concert Society season.]
May 16th 1992
Rutter O clap your hands; For the beauty of the earth; Te Deum; Gloria.
November 7th 1992
Bach Mass in B minor (with Paula Dunford, Valerie Littledyke, John Dunford, Geoffrey Littledyke)
March 20th 1993
John Holt Drop, drop, slow tears; Purcell Music for the funeral of Queen Mary II; Jongen Mass. (with Judith Pearson, Liz Pilkington, Chris Hewitt, Patrick Heley)
June 12th 1993
Vivaldi Gloria; Faure Requiem. (with Judith Pearson, Justine Bradshaw, Elizabeth Pilkington, Quentin Brown) [This programme was put together in about five weeks, after our return from the weekend in Germany; the resulting performance prompted cellist Anna Shuttleworth to comment to Andrew that it had been a long time since she'd heard a choir sing better than that.]
November 13th 1993
Haydn The Creation (with Virginia Rushton, Melvyn White, Matthew Broadbent)
March 26th 1994
Bach St. John Passion (with Peter Young, Patrick Heley, Paula Dunford, James Huw Jeffries, Melvyn White, Kenneth Park)
June 18th 1994
'A Cappella' programme of sacred and secular choral music by Byrd, Purcell, Stanford, Wood, Morley, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Sullivan. [This programme was also performed at St. Peter and St. Paul, Kettlethorpe on June 8th and All Hallows, Almondbury on July 9th.]
November 17th 1994
Bernstein Chichester Psalms; Finzi Lo, the full, final Sacrifice; Rutter Requiem. (with Justine Bradshaw)
March 25th 1995
Liszt Via Crucis; Kodély Missa Brevis. (with Ben Davies)
June 17th 1995
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes; shorter pieces by Elgar, Bishop, Walmisley, Stanford, Warrell, Vaughan Williams, Rutter. (with Ben Davies) [This concert took place in Pontefract Town Hall.]
November 11th 1995
Handel Four Coronation Anthems; Purcell Come ye Sons of Art. (with Rachel Bennett, Tom Wilson, Ben Davies)
March 16th 1996
Duruflé Requiem; Stainer The Crucifixion. (with Sandra Twitchett, John Dunford, Patrick Heley)
June 22nd 1996
Copland In the beginning; Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing; Barber Agnus Dei. (with Cari Searle)
November 23rd 1996
Walton Coronation Te Deum; Howells 'Collegium Regale' Te Deum; Padmore Psalm 150; Howells 'Collegium Regale' Jubilate; Rutter Gloria.
March 8th 1997
Handel Messiah. (with Sasha Johnson Manning, Helen Francis, Mark Anderson, Tom Guthrie)
June 21st 1997
Mendelssohn Hear my Prayer; Frühzeitiger Frühling; Schubert Chor der Engel; Mass in G; Brahms Song of Destiny; In stiller Nacht; Schubert Stabat Mater.
November 8th 1997
Haydn Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo ('Kleine Orgelmesse'); Handel Dixit Dominus; Mozart Sancta Maria, Mater Dei; Ave verum; Vivaldi Gloria. (with Sasha Johnson Manning, Celia Gibb, Neil Hopwood, Charles Beale, Richard Haigh)
March 28th 1998
Twentieth Century Music - sacred and secular works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Bairstow, Thomas Ward, Patric Standford, John Holt, Balfour Gardiner, Britten and Sullivan.
June 13th 1998
Mozart Requiem Mass; Elgar The Music Makers. (with Maria Bovino, Der-Shin Hwang, Mark Anderson, Julian Saipe) [The Mozart Requiem was also performed with Handel's Zadok the Priest on June 7th in Haworth Church for the Brontë Society, in a concert to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the deaths of Patrick Branwell Brontë (24.9.1848) and Emily Jane Brontë(19.12.1848]
November 14th 1998
Haydn Insanae et vanae curae; 'Nelson' Mass in D minor. (with Maria Bovino, Der-Shin Hwang, Robert Thompson, Marcus Pashley) [This concert also included a performance of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto and Four Pieces for Musical Clocks]
March 27th 1999
Rossini Petite Messe solennelle. (with Fiona Clucas, Taylor Wilson, Sean Kerr, Ben Davies)
June 26th 1999
Music of the Emerald Isle, sacred and secular music by Thomas Bateson, Ralph and Daniel Roseingrave, Stanford and Wood, with arrangements of Irish pieces by Andrew Padmore and John Rutter.

Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir

November 6th 1999
Haydn The Creation. (with Sasha Johnson Manning, John Haythornthwaite, Kevin Sharp)
April 1st 2000
Stainer The Cricifixion; Fauré Requiem. (with Anna Turmeau, Robert Thompson, Tayo Aluko) [The highlight of this concert was the second half, when for the Fauré Requie the only people using copies were the two soloists, the organist and the conductor; it was quite some performance!]
June 10th 2000
Church Music throughout the last Millennium - a programme which started with Gregorian Chant and worked its way through Byrd, Weelkes, Gibbons, Purcell, Wesley, Bairstow, Finzi and Howells to Tavener and Rutter.
November 4th 2000
Mendelssohn Elijah. (with Maria Bovino, Margaret McDonald, Mark Padmore, Willard White)
March 31st 2001
Bernstein Chichester Psalms; Fanshawe African Sanctus. (with Gillian Rae-Walker, Daniel Wellings) [For the African Sanctusthe choir wore a variety of brightly-coloured shirts, and we were joined by some genuine Zulu dancers - who succeeded in getting virtually the entire audience dancing in the Cathedral aisles during the repeat of the final chorus.]
June 16th 2001
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius. (with Julia Parrott, Robert Johnston, Ben Davies)
November 3rd 2001
Handel Messiah. (with Emma Kirkby, James Huw Jeffries, Kevin McLean-Mair, Richard Strivens)
March 23rd 2002
Brahms German Requiem (with Julia Dewhurst, David Thomas); Elgar The Music Makers (with Margaret McDonald)
June 29th 2002
Handel Zadok the Priest; Charpentier Te Deum; Mozart Requiem (with Hannah Ball, Sophie Wellings, Daniel Wellings, Robert Thompson, Chris Gulley)
October 4th 2002
Vivaldi Gloria; Handel Messiah (excerpts) in Dewsbury Minster for the Dewsbury Christian Music Festival (with Elizabeth Allen, Elena Markova Smith, Simon Lindley)
November 2nd 2002
Vivaldi Gloria; Purcell Dido and Ĉneas (with Hannah Ball, Maria Bovino, Rosalyn Cochrane, Sophie Wellings, Nicola Harrison, Christina Lee, Elena Markova Smith, Simon Allatt, Chris Guthrie)
November 10th 2002
Handel Messiah (with Emma Kirkby, Daniel Wellings, Robert Johnston, Michael George)
April 5th 2003
Bach Mass in B minor (with Linda Gerrard, Alison Hudson, Joshua Ellicott, Thomas Guthrie)
June 7th 2003
Handel Three Coronation Anthems; Parry Blest Pair of Sirens and I was glad
November 8th 2003
Mozart Ave Verum Corpus and Coronation Mass; Vaughan Williams Flos Campi; Fauré Requiem (with Rachel Payne, Marie Elliott, Matthew Minter, Ben Davies, Patrick Heley)
November 16th 2003
Handel Messiah (with Maria Bovino, Margaret McDonald, Robert Johnston, Willard White)
March 27th 2004
Bach St. John Passion (with Joshus Ellicott, Ben Davies, Sasha Johnson Manning, Daniel Wellings, Robert Thompson, Adam Green)
June 26th 2004
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine; Bernstein Chichester Psalms; Fanshawe African Sanctus (with Maureen Brathwaite)
November 6th 2004
Rutter Gloria and Requiem; Simmons Beauchamp Gloria; Leighton Fanfare on Newtoun (with Hannah Ball)
November 14th 2004
Handel Messiah (with Emma Kirkby, Marie Elliott Davies, Joshua Ellicott, Ben Davies)
March 5th 2005
Orff Carmina Burana; Jenkins The Armed Man (with Patricia Rozario, Margaret McDonald, Glenville Hargreaves)
June 11th 2005
Haydn Creation (with Phillipa Hyde, Christopher Turner, Adrian Powter)
July 9th 2005
Concert with Horbury Victoria Brass Band
November 12th 2005
Barber Agnus Dei; Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (with Dawn Furness, Gaynor Keeble, Bonaventura Bottone, Thorbjorn Gulbrandsoy)
November 19th 2005
Handel Messiah (with Lynne Dawson, Margaret McDonald, Joshua Ellicott, Ben Davies)
April 1st 2006
Mozart Ave Verum Corpus, Exsultate Jubilate and Solemn Vespers; Vaughan Williams An Oxford Elegy; Handel Dixit Dominus (with Kate Valentine, Sasha Johnson Manning, Alison Hudson, Olivier Dumait, Adam Green, Graham Heley)
June 10th 2006
Fauré Requiem; Rutter Mass of the Children and Feel the Spirit (with Nicola Mills, Melanie Marshall, Tom Guthrie)
July 15th 2006
Concert with Crofton Silver Band.
September 23rd 2006
(Howden Festival) Fanshawe African Sanctus (with Maureen Brathwaite)
November 18th 2007
Carter Benedicite; Jenkins Requiem and In these stones horizons sing (with Paul Carey Jones, John Helliwell, Joe Browning, Christina Jones, James Micklethwaite)
March 24th 2007
Duruflé Requiem; Stainer Crucifixion (with Rebecca Atkins, William Helliwell, Miles Taylor)
June 23rd 2007

Mendelssohn Elijah (with James Micklethwaite, Kate Valentine, Gayner Keeble, Shawn Dixon, and Glenville Hargreaves)

July 14th 2007

Concert with Rothwell Temperance Band

November 17th 2007

Last Night of the Proms including Borodin Polotsvian Dances (with Louise Sjostedt, Alexander Grove)