Past concerts
From Bach to Bassi, from Monteverdi to McDowall,
newChoir has been singing joyfully since 2012
'What a simply glorious experience it was to listen to the choir last Saturday. I loved it all, but Johnson's Gloria was stunning.'
Audience member
23 November 2019
'Lovely concert by newCHOIR this evening. Beautiful sound from the choir and impressively clear diction. Wonderful!'
Nicola Lisle, Oxford Times
12 November 2016
SING FOR JOY! 23 November 2019, Exeter College Chapel
Stanford Te Deum in B flat; Three motets; Purcell Te Deum in D; Johnson Gloria; Works by Byrd, Tallis and Gibbons; Spirituals
CHOIR AND HARP Choral music with the queen of instruments
29 June 2019, Holywell Music Room
Bassi: Harpsonnets; Britten: Gloriana Dances; McDowall: A fancy of folksongs; Horovitz: Three choral songs
Choral Genius 23 March 2019, Exeter College Chapel
Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude; Finzi: God is gone up; Bruckner: Locus Iste, Ave Maria; Pärt: Beatitudes; works by Monteverdi, Brahms & Howells
Songs of Joy & Hope 1 December 2018, St Margaret's Church
BOB CHILCOTT: Jubilate; PHILIP MOORE: Jubilate Deo; Works by Finzi and Holst; three spirituals
A Queen's Music 16 June 2018, St Mary Magdalen Church
Handel: Zadok the Priest; Bennet: All Creatures Now Are Merry-Minded; Weelkes: As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending; Stanford: Gloria in Excelsis; Whitacre: Her Sacred Spirit Soars; Ireland: The Hills; Finzi: White-Flowering Days; Parry: I Was Glad
Divine Harmony 17 March 2018, Harris Manchester College
Whitacre: i thank You God; The seal lullaby; Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music; Haydn: Harmoniemesse in B flat
Baroque Tribute 4 November 2017, St John the Evangelist Church
Handel: Funeral anthem for Queen Caroline; Bononcini: When Saul was King; Handel: I will magnify thee
Bach & all that Jazz 1 July 2017, St Michaels at the Northgate
Bach: Air & Prelude; Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass; Gershwin: Suite from ‘Porgy and Bess’; Irving Berlin: favourite songs
GLORIA! 11 March 2017, St Mary Magdalen Church
Settings of Gloria in Excelsis by Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Simon Johnson. Mozart: From Missa Longa in C, K262; Victoria: From Missa, O quam gloriosum
Voices & Violins 12 November 2016, St John the Evangelist Church
Haydn Little Organ Mass; Mozart: Litaniae Lauretanae, K109; Monteverdi: Cantate Domino a 2; Cavalli: Nisi Dominus; Telemann: Laudate Jehovam
Songs of the Sea 25 June 2016, New Road Baptist Church,
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet; John Wells: The Call of the Running Tide (NZ composer; UK premiere); Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast
The Choral Spirit 19 March 2016, Exeter College Chapel
Joseph Haydn: Insanae et Vanae Curae; Samuel Sebastian Wesley: The Wilderness;
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus; Paul Patterson: Millenium Mass
Tudor Connections 14 November 2015, Exeter College Chapel
Tudor motets interwoven with works by 20th century composers:
Thomas Tallis: If ye love me; Third mode melody; Robert Parsons: Ave Maria; William Mundy: O Lord, the maker of all thing; William Byrd: O quam gloriosum; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G; Valiant for Truth; O clap your hands; Lord, thou hast been our refuge; The Old Hundredth; Herbert Howells (organ solo): Master Tallis’s Testament
An American Dream 6 June 2015, New Road Baptist Church
Rodgers and Hammerstein: selection from Oklahoma! Cole Porter medley, arr. Janet Lincé: incl. Begin the Beguine; You do something to me; I love Paris; Samuel Barber: To be Sung on the Water; Sure on this shining night; Randall Thompson: Choose something like a star; The Road Not Taken; Alleluia; George Gershwin: selection from Porgy and Bess
The Sacred Muse 7 March 2015, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho
Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice; Herbert Howells: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Gustav Holst: Psalms 86 and 148; Charles Stanford: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem; Spirituals: Deep river; I want Jesus to walk with me; Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel; Ev’ry time I feel the spirit
Baroque Praise 29 November 2014, St John the Evangelist Church
John Blow: God spake sometime in visions; Giacomo Carissimi: Jepthe; Francesco Scarlatti: Miserere; Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord alway
Shakespeare’s Muse 7 June 2014, Jesus College Chapel
James Bassi: Harpsonnets; Joseph Horovitz: Three Choral Songs; George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets; Romantic partsongs by Macfarren, Wood, Horsley, Sterndale Bennett and Pearsall
Rise, Heart! Music of glory and triumph 1 March 2014, Jesus College Chapel
Felix Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs; Franz Schubert: Miriams Siegesgesang; Charles Stanford: Coronation Gloria
For All Seasons 8 June 2013, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho
Anon: Sumer is icumin in; Ernest Moeran: Songs of Springtime; Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast; Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
Sing Joyfully! 2 March 2013, Keble College Chapel
J S Bach: Lobet den Herrn; Benjamin Britten: Te Deum in C; Hymn to St Peter; Jubilate in C; Arvo Pärt: Beatitudes; Cantate Domino; Henry Purcell: I was glad; Hear my prayer
Virtual Vespers 17 November 2012, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho
Claudio Monteverdi: Confitebor Tibi; Nisi Dominus; Ave Maris Stella; Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat
Music of the People 10 June 2012, Mansfield College Chapel
John Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme; Aaron Copland: Old American Songs; Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst; Percy Grainger: Folk song arrangements
Romantic Praise 18 March 2012, Exeter College Chapel
Louis Vierne: Messe Solonnelle; Edward Bairstow: Blessed city, heavenly Salem; Charles Stanford: The Lord is my Shepherd; For lo, I raise up; Anton Bruckner: Os justi; Libera me Domine; Hubert Parry: I was glad