Our annual Come & Sing event. This year we will be singing Feel the Spirit by the iconic Sir John Rutter.

Feel the Spirit was first performed on 17 June 2001 in Carnegie Hall, New York, by Melanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano), the New England Symphonic Ensemble and participating choirs. The conductor was John Rutter.

An all day workshop lead by our musical director David Ballard and accompanied by Cathy Al-Bay.

Concludes with an informal concert performance at 4:00 pm open to all. Retiring collection in aid of choir funds.

Outline Timetable for the Day

• 10:00 am Arrival and distribution of scores
• 10:30 am Workshop commences
• 12:30 pm Lunch break
• 4:00 pm Concert Performance open to all friends and family

Transport / Car Parking

There is limited car parking space available on site (including 2 disabled parking spaces). Alternatively park in the main public car park situated close to the A1082 Holway Road / A149 Cromer Road roundabout. Up to three hours free parking is available at Tesco, Cromer Road, Sheringham. If you do not mind a 10 minute or so walk there is free car parking on The Esplanade

Sheringham (Greater Anglia) train station is a short walk from the venue. Details can be found here.

Regular buses from Norwich and and local towns/villages to the east and west stop close to the venue. Visit Sanders Coaches for details.

Refreshment Arrangements

Tea, Coffee and cakes will be available on arrival and at breaks and lunchtime. Please either bring your own packed lunch or visit one of the many cafes or hostelries in town – just a short walk away.

Composed between 1865 and 1868, Ein Deutsches Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem Ein Deutsches Requiem, as its title states, is set in the German language. It may well have been inspired by the recent death of Brahm’s mother. Tonight’s performance is in a version accompanied by 4 handed piano.

Written  between 1906 and 1911, Five Mystical Songs sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester with Vaughan Williams himself conducting.

Im Abendrot (At Sunset) is one of the Four Last Songs written by Richard Strauss in 1948 at the age of 84. Universally considered among the composer’s most beautiful, profound, and human works, Strauss’s Four Last Songs were among his last compositions and served as a final love letter to his wife of nearly 60 years, the soprano Pauline de Ahna.The title was provided posthumously by Strauss’s friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950.

Repertoire

Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams

Im Abendrot – Richard Strauss

Ein Deutsches Requiem – Johannes Brahms

Performers

Alexandra Bryant – soprano

Robert Gildon – baritone

Elizabeth Stacey – piano

John Stephens – piano

David Ballard – Conductor

This April marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the grandson of Charles Wesley. He is often referred to as S.S. Wesley to avoid confusion with his father Samuel Wesley. His middle name is derived from his father’s lifelong admiration for the music of Bach. His prolific career as a composer and organist led to positions as organist at Hereford, Exeter, Gloucester and Winchester cathedrals. His English church anthems are frequently sung (and much loved) in the Church of England to this day.

The Music Makers was commissioned for, and first performed at, the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival on 1 October 1912. The text of the work is the 1874 poem Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy, which Elgar set in its entirety. He had been working on the music intermittently since 1903, without a specific commission. He completed it after receiving a commission from the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival. It was dedicated to “my friend Nicholas Kilburn”.

Programme

Anthems by Samuel Sebastian Wesley:

Ascribe unto the Lord

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace

Wash me throughly

Blessed be the God & Father

An air for the Holsworthy Church Bells (organ) – Samuel Sebastian Wesley

The Music Makers – Sir Edward Elgar

Performers

Dr Susanna Self – mezzo-soprano

Jasmine Catherine (Jasmine Pierce) – soprano

Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society

David Ballard – conductor

William Falconer – accompanist

This year we are delighted to be performing our annual Christmas Carol concert for the first time in St Botolph’s Church, Trunch. We will be performing music dedicated to the three festive seasons of Advent, Christmas, and into Epiphany. Along the way there will be old classics, audience participation, new settings of old works and bringing the Christmas repertoire right up-to-date with contemporary styles and arrangements. The church will be decorated with candles and holly and ivy.

The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only.

There will be a licensed bar at this event.

Proceeds from this concert will be donated to Trunch Church projects.

Programme

From traditional favourites like In the Bleak Midwinter to lesser known carols like Lo! Star-Led Chiefs and beautiful contemporary songs like Sally Beamish’s In The Stillness the programme includes a wealth of magnificent Christmas music.

In the Stillness – Sally Beamish

Creator of the Stars of Night – arr Richard Burchard

Remember O Thou Man – Thomas Ravenscroft

People Look East – arr Barry Ferguson

Come Thou Redeemer of the earth

Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen – Michael Praetorius

The Angel Gabriel – Edgar Pettman

Shepherds in the fields abiding – arr. Wilcocks

‘As Joseph was a-Walking – Henry John Gauntlett

O Little Town of Bethlehem – Walford Davies

The Great God of Heaven

INTERVAL

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Yorkshire Tune)

Carol of the Bells – Leontovych

In the Bleak Mid Winter – Harold Darke

See, Amid the Winter’s Snow

On This Day, Earth Shall Ring – H.C. Stewart

Lo Star led Chiefs – William Crotch

We Three Kings of Orients Are

Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day – John Gardener

Gaudete

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Ralph Bane.

Performers

David Ballard – Conductor

Martyn Marshall – Accompanist

Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society

Composed in 1807, the C Major Mass was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy to commemorate the name day of his wife, Marie von Liechtenstein. Beethoven’s motivation for writing it, then, was less related to his own religious feeling. Because of this, the style of this mass was similar to that of Haydn’s masses.

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.

Repertoire

Missa in C – Ludwig Van Beethoven

Wachet Auf BWV 140 – Johan Sebastian Bach

Performers

David Ballard – conductor

Sheringham & Cromer Chamber Orchestra

Philip Adams – continuo

Saskia Edwards-Korolczuk – soprano

Paul Ethan Bright – counter-tenor

Connor Collerton – tenor

Dhilan Gnanadurai – baritone

Find our listing on AllThingsNorfolk showing images of all four soloists here

Our annual Come & Sing event. This year we will be singing The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Sir Karl Jenkins.

The Armed Man was commissioned by the Royal Armouries for the millenium celebrations and dedicated to the victims of Kosovo. It was composed in 1999 and first performed in 2000. It is essentially an anti-war piece based on the Catholic Mass with other sources including the 15th century folk song “L’homme armé”.

An all day workshop lead by our musical director David Ballard and accompanied by Philip Adams.

Concludes with an informal concert performance at 4:00 pm open to all. Retiring collection in aid of choir funds.

Outline Timetable for the Day

• 10:00 am Arrival and distribution of scores
• 10:30 am Workshop commences
• 12:30 pm Lunch break
• 4:00 pm Concert Performance open to all friends and family

Transport / Car Parking

There is limited car parking space available on site (including 2 disabled parking spaces). Alternatively park in the main public car park situated close to the A1082 Holway Road / A149 Cromer Road roundabout. Up to three hours free parking is available at Tesco, Cromer Road, Sheringham. If you do not mind a 10 minute or so walk there is free car parking on The Esplanade

Sheringham (Greater Anglia) train station is a short walk from the venue. Details can be found here.

Regular buses from Norwich and and local towns/villages to the east and west stop close to the venue. Visit Sanders Coaches for details.

Refreshment Arrangements

Tea, Coffee and cakes will be available on arrival and at breaks and lunchtime. Please either bring your own packed lunch or visit one of the many cafes or hostelries in town – just a short walk away.