Our Next Concert
Saturday, 24th March 2012
Mendelssohn's Elijah
St Mary's Parish Church, Ulverston

The 2011 season is generously sponsored by
BOOTHS
Sir John Fisher Foundation

We are seeking Corporate sponsors for the 2012 season. Please email Cathy Styles at furnessbachchoir@gmail.com if you would like to discuss how you might support us or call 01229 583750.

Picture courtesy of the North West Evening Mail

 

Details of Forthcoming Concerts

Saturday 24th March 2012
Mendelssohn's Elijah with organ accompaniment
St Mary's Parish Church, Ulverston

And for your diary:

Saturday 18th May 2012

Coffee Morning - fund raiser
Saturday 16th June 2012 Handel's 'Jephtha' with orchestra

Saturday 17th November 2012

Programme to be confirmed

Recent Concerts
Bach Night
Furness Bach Choir with the Holborne Players
Programme: Mass in F, Cantata no. 40 (1st chorus), Cantata 65, Cantata 72
Motets: "Komm Jesu, Komm" and "O Jesu Christ Meins Lebens Licht"
Brandenburg Concerto No.4
St Mary's Parish Church, Dalton in Furness
November 12th 2011

'Conductor's Choice' - a selection of pieces from composers including Handel, Buxtehude, Lotti, Fats Waller and Gershwin.
Neville Street Methodist Church, Ulverston
Saturday, 18th June 2011

Israel In Egypt by Handel
St James' Church, Blake Street, Barrow-in-Furness
9th April 2011

Requiem Mass by W. A. Mozart
Theresa Mass by J. Haydn

St Mary of Furness RC Church, Ulverston
13th November 2010

Songs and Strawberries
20th century pieces by British, American and Estonian composers.
Ulverston Parish Church
26 June
2010

JS Bach St. John Passion
20th March 2010
Furness Bach Choir with the Holborne Players (baroque orchestra)
St Mary's Church, Dalton-in-Furness.

Song of Songs
Saturday 28th November 2009
St James' Church, Blake Street, Barrow-in-Furness

Music spanning five centuries based on the sensual lyrics of the Song of Solomon and also including two motets in forty parts:
Tallis's Spem in alium and Striggio's Ecce beatam lucem.

27th June 2009 Midsummer Melodies
St Columba's RC Church, Walney Island, Barrow
Programme of short choral, solo and instrumental pieces with readings

1st July 2009 Serenade for Summer
Grange-over-Sands United Reformed Church

9th May 2009
Mass in B minor by J S Bach
Furness Bach Choir and Holborne Players
Conductor: Anthony Milledge
Baroque orchestra led by Peter Fender
Parish Church, Ulverston

November 2008
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor for unaccompanied double choir
George Jeffreys (17th c. English composer) :Our Blessed Saviour Cycle of
7 verse anthems for the Church's year (its first modern performance)
St Mary of Furness RC Church, Ulverston
May 2008 G F Handel Samson
November 2007 Echoes of Bohemia (pieces by 17th and 18th c. Czech composers)
April 2007 Treasures of the Baroque (Vivaldi Beatus Vir, Handel, 9th Chandos Anthem, Purcell Welcome to all the Pleasures, J S Bach Mass in G minor)
December 2006 Handel's Messiah
May 2006 Leopold Mozart Mass in C Michael Haydn St Francis Mass
November 2005 Gounod St Cecilia Mass Durufl Requiem
May 2005 J Haydn Nelson Mass plus music by Mozart and Michael Haydn
November 2004 M Haydn St Theresa Mass, Mozart Requiem
June 2004 Jonathan Dove Tobias and the Angel (with English Touring Opera)
May 2004 Dvorak Mass in D, Faure's Requiem