The Choir’s opening concert for 2023 – and our inaugural performance under the baton of Timothy Peters - celebrates the emergence of Spring and the sense of renewal and joy of nature that it brings.  It contains a wide variety of beautiful – and sometimes haunting - choral pieces. Notable among them are Gerald Finzi’s “Seven Poems of Robert Bridges”, which provides themes and harmonies evocative of nature in all its aspects, and Mozart’s energetic and uplifting Mass in C, first performed in an Easter mass some 250 years ago (known as his Sparrow Mass due to a section within it resembling birds chirping). The choir will be joined by two young trumpeters and the organ scholar of St. Paul's Cathedral.

“Come with us on a musical journey through lush green landscapes, and bathe in sonic melodies and  odes to trees, streams and creatures of the forest,” says Timothy Peters. “It's been a true joy to fully appreciate Finzi's masterful settings for Bridges’ poems, and experience Sarah Cattley's contemporary composition for Sicut Cervus, as well as other more traditional pieces”.