Feel the Spirit

Gospel, Folk and Swing

including

“Feel the Spirit” by John Rutter

 featuring

The Pennine Singers, Richard Brocklehurst
Oldham Music Centre Adult Windband

Saturday, 30^th September, 2017, 7.30 pm

Christ Church Friezland, OL3 7LQ

The heritage of the African-American spiritual has fired the imagination of composers, performers, and audiences for more than a hundred years.  Each generation has produced interpretations of many kinds, yet, curiously, rather few composers have combined the resources of soloist, choir, and orchestra.  John Rutter was inspired by the vocal artistry of Melanie Marshall to build a set of spirituals crafted to her personal style, partnered by choir, with the orchestra to supply an extra dimension of colour and emotional depth.

Feel the Spi...

Visiting choir, Coventry Cathedral, 2017

The Pennine Singers visited Coventry Cathedral to sing the services over the weekend of Low Sunday (22^nd and 23^rd April), including Saturday Evensong, Sunday Sung Eucharist and Sunday Evensong.

Saturday Evensong

Introit: Haec Dies – Byrd
Responses: Smith (5 part)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Purcell in A minor
Anthem: Surgens Jesus – Philips

Sunday Sung Eucharist
Mass setting: Darke in E
Anthem: Ubi Caritas – Gjeilo

Sunday Evensong
Introit: Oculi omnium – Matthew Martin
Responses: Rose
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Howells St Paul’s Service
Anthem: Antiphon – Vaughan Williams

Recordings

• Purcell – Magnificat
• Purcell – Nunc Dimittis
• Philips – Surgens Jesus

Maurice Duruflé – Requiem

Maurice Duruflé – Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op.  1

Francis Poulenc – Quatre Petites prières de Saint-François d’Assise

Oliver Messiaen – Le Banquet Celeste

Leon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique

Musical Director – Elizabeth Brocklehurst
Accompanist – Richard Brocklehurst

Saturday November 26th, 2016

Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL66 6QQ

This concert brings together a collection of Scandinavian choral music spanning 600 years. It embraces different styles of music through the ages but with some recurring themes of nature, beauty and heaven above. A repetitive almost ritualistic element runs throughout the contemporary works from this region, making them very distinctive and easily recognisable.

Saturday, October 15th, 2016

Christ Church, Friezland, OL3 7LQ

Northern Lights

This concert brings together a collection of Scandinavian choral music spanning 600 years. It embraces different styles of music through the ages but with some recurring themes of nature, beauty and heaven above. A repetitive almost ritualistic element runs throughout the contemporary works from this region, making them very distinctive and easily recognisable.

Saturday, 2 July, 2016

Glossop Parish Church SK13 7RU

L’homme armé Super voces musicales
Josquin Des Prez

Conductor – Marco Bellasi

Saturday, 27 February, 2016
Glossop Parish Church SK13 7RU

An Evening of Christmas Fayre and Carols

23 December, 2015

Roebuck Inn, Strinesdale, Oldham OL4 3RB

Christmas music for choir and harp

Harp – Sarah Davies

Musical Director – Elizabeth Brocklehurst

Saturday 12th December, 7.30 pm

Christ Church Friezland, OL3 7LQ

L’homme armé Super voces musicales

Josquin Des Prez

Musical Director – Marco Bellasi

Saturday, 11 June 2015, at 12:00
Emmanuel Church, Didsbury M20 6DR

Paukenmesse – Mass in Time of War, Joseph Haydn

and music by

Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Lotti, Bruckner, Michael Haydn

Saturday 21 March 2015 at 7:30pm
Christ Church, Friezland
Saddleworth  OL3 7LE

Marco Bellasi – conductor
John LeGrove – organ

Jehanne Amza – soprano, Mary Jefferis – contralto
Chris Paterson – tenor, Michael Donmall – bass

Diego Vassallo, Lisa Meschi – violins
Jonas Lindner – viola, Joseph Donmall – cello
Delia Stevens – timpani, Sofia Mahan – trumpet

Welcome to the Pennine Singers’ springtime concert.

Paukenmesse – Mass in Time of War

Haydn’s 1796 mass setting provides a dramatic reflection of troubled times in the midst of the European war.
Paukenmesse – Kettledrum Mass – refers to the timpani which provide the pulse to a desperate cry for peace in the...