Michael Bawtree - Conductor A beautiful concert for a summer evening from the Glasgow Chamber Choir, directed by Michael Bawtree, featuring choral works by Paul Mealor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Villiers Stanford and Eric Whitacre. Refreshments will be served at the end of the performance. Tickets available online from: https://glasgowchamberchoir.ticketlight.co.uk/
Our November concert takes you on a musical journey around Europe, from a joyful setting of a Galician lovesong from north east Spain, to a spell-binding evocation of a night of snow, Un Soir de Neige by the French composer Poulenc. From Finland we bring you Jakko Mäntyjärvi’s cantata Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae written in 1997 [...]
Join us in Craigie Symington Parish Church at 7Pm on 14 December for our annual Christmas Carol Concert, followed by mulled wine and mince pies! We will be taking a retiring collection for Whiteley's Retreat.
After the previous successful exchanges in 2011, 2014 and 2017, the Glasgow Chamber Choir is coming to the Netherlands for the fourth time in March for joint concerts with the St. Joris Chamber Choir. This time the monumental Messe in e-moll by Anton Bruckner stands for eight-part choir and fifteen wood and brass instruments as [...]
In April we link up for the fourth time with our Dutch partner choir, St Joris Kamerkoor from the town of Amersfoort, to present a powerful programme of choral music by Bruckner and Mahler in St Michael’s Church in Linlithgow. St Michael’s is one of the largest and most historic parish churches in Scotland and [...]
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After two years with very little singing, we are delighted to bring you a varied concert of music from across several centuries. Byrd’s luminous Five-Part Mass was written in the late 16th century and is considered a masterpiece of choral writing. Moving forward a century we bring you music by Johann Ludwig Bach, a third [...]
As we approach the summer equinox, join us for a concert of beautiful music fit for a summer's evening. Our midsummer concert brings together joyful motets from Bach and Schutz from the 16th and 17th centuries with music from more recent times by British jazz pianist George Shearing, and American composers Eric Whitacre and Morten [...]
Our autumn concert has a distinctly Italian flavour, with a programme of sacred music from composers, some of whom are better known for their operatic work. Ildebrando Pizzetti, an Italian composer little known outside Italy, wrote his beautiful Messa di Requiem in 1922. It is steeped in the tradition of Gregorian chant, woven into a [...]