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Surrey Ad review of RAH Vivace Chorus concert
MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE OF REQUIEM FROM VIVACE Vivace Chorus Verdi’s Requiem – Royal Albert Hall – Rating: ***** The Verdi Requiem is much-loved and often performed and last Sunday the Vivace Chorus put together a memorable and moving performance at the Royal Albert Hall, singing to a near capacity audience. The concert, which was promoted by Vivace, saw […]
[New CD Press Release] Inside my heart – For Rowan
Charity single in support of the work of The Rainbow Trust Rowan is a beautiful 8 year old girl who has been fighting a brain tumour for 5 years. This release is inspired by her and her fight against cancer and will raise funds for The Rainbow Trust, who are supporting her family through difficult […]
[Video] Rachmaninov Vespers – First, Third & Fifth Movements
Filmed during a live concert performance at Lincoln Cathedral Chaper House, April 2014. Movement 1 Movement 3 Movement 5
Filsell/Briggs: Choral Music – CD Review
This lovely CD was not at all what I expected. The image I had of church music was of a genre that is conventional and safe. Neither composer represented here falls into place on either count. I suspect many a church choir would see these pieces as very challenging. The scene is set with Filsell’s Tomorrow […]
Join Jeremy for a Desert Island Discs Evening
Desert Island Discs featuring star castaway Jeremy Backhouse Join Jeremy on his desert island as he divulges the music he would want with him. Date & Time Saturday 22nd March 7.00 ~ 10.00pm Location Clock Barn Hall, Hambledon Road, Godalming, GU8 4AY. Tickets £22.50 Includes welcoming drink, finger buffet and pay bar. Dress Smart venue […]
[Video] Songs of Farewell – My soul, there is a country
A performance of a movement from Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell – My Soul, there is a country, sung live in concert by the Vasari Singers directed by Jeremy Backhouse.
Armed Man: A Mass for Peace – Concert Review
Jeremy Backhouse, conductor of the Guildford-based Vivace Chorus, never ceases to craft interesting programmes and last Saturday we were treated to the pairing of Haydn and Karl Jenkins in a choral concert at Guildford Cathedral. Haydn’s ‘Mass in Time of War’ is a work full of pride and positivity and the Chorus sang with energy […]
Salisbury Community Choir 21st Anniversary Concert
On Saturday 12th October 2013, the Salisbury Community Choir, accompanied by the Salisbury Community Orchestra, under the direction of Jeremy Backhouse, sang the premiere performance of a newly-commissioned work by Will Todd to a sell-out audience in Salisbury Cathedral. The new work, a cantata entitled ‘The City Garden’ was commissioned by the choir to celebrate 21 […]
[Video] Parry – Songs of Farewell – Never weather beaten sail
A performance of a movement from Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell – Never weather beaten sail, sung live in concert by the Vasari Singers directed by Jeremy Backhouse.
[Video] Parry – Songs of Farewell – There is an old belief
Watch the London chamber choir Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, perform “There is an old belief” from Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell, live in concert.