Past Performances

Chapter House Choir celebrated 60 years of music-making with a unique programme dedicated to remembrance, featuring their Youth Choir – founded for their fiftieth season – and the professional vocal ensemble Jervaulx Singers.

The programme featured Everyone Sang by acclaimed baritone and composer Roderick Williams, which Chapter House Choir commissioned for their fiftieth anniversary. A beautifully lyrical work for three choirs, each group’s music works both independently of the other choirs and together, setting texts by Siegfried Sassoon (Everyone Sang), Laurence Binyon (For the Fallen) and the traditional Agnus Dei.

The programme also included Footsteps by award-winning composer and conductor Owain Park. In the composer’s own words, ‘Footsteps is the result of many months of researching texts to structure a narrative that cycles the seasons through the view of the lonely traveller who is constantly being moved on before being allowed to settle, finding comfort in the sky and stars above.’

This was a special concert that brought together echoes of joy and remembrance from sixty years of song.
 

Programme included
Tavener   Mother of God, Here I Stand
Roderick Williams   Everyone Sang
Elgar   They are at rest
Owain Park   Footsteps
Jonathan Dove   Into Thy Hands
Howells   Requiem