World Première
Stabat Mater by Paul Carr
In a programme rich with the perfect choral writing of Elgar and Lauridsen, we proudly present a newly commissioned setting of the ancient religious poem known in Latin as the Stabat Mater. Paul Carr is a composer well-known to The English Arts Chorale after his earlier commission The Lamb became a favourite with the singers. Paul will giving an introduction to his new work at the concert.
Paul Carr Stabat mater
Elgar Sea Pictures
Lauridsen Nocturnes
Barber String Quartet, Op. 11
Julian Milone
Sophie Cameron
Alexandru-Mihai Bota
Christopher Terepin
The English Arts Ensemble, led by Julian Milone
Piano: Annabel Thwaite
Conductor: Leslie Olive
St Mary’s Church, Chart Lane, Reigate RH2 7RN
Saturday October 21st, 2017 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: From £20 (Front Nave) to £12.00
More details, including our exclusive interview with Paul Carr ►
Project Manager: Nyren Scott-Malden
St John's College Cambridge
Stabat Mater by Paul Carr
The EAC repeats the programme of last week in the vibrant acoustic of St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge. Composer Paul Carr will give an introduction to his new work Stabat Mater, commissioned by the English Arts Chorale and given its world première by them in St Mary's Reigate a week previously.
Carr - Stabat Mater
Lauridsen - Nocturnes: Sa nuit d'été; Soneto de la noche; Sure on this shining night; Voici le soir
Elgar - Sea Pictures, arranged for choir by Christopher Phelps
Samuel Barber - String Quartet Op. 11 Played here by members of the English Arts Ensemble:
Julian Milone
Sophie Cameron
Alexandru-Mihai Bota
Christopher Terepin
Leslie Olive - conductor
English Arts Ensemble, led by Julian Milone
Piano - Karen Smith
St John's College Chapel, Cambridge CB2 1TP
Saturday October 28th, 2017 8pm
Ticket Prices: £16, £8 (Students)
The Lark Ascending
"Listen to this . . . and you are listening to England"
Enjoy Britain's favourite piece of classical music - The Lark Ascending - in a concert packed with memorable items performed by the English Arts Chorale and its outstanding professional orchestra. The gifted and delightful Savitri Grier returns to Reigate to play Vaughan Williams' miniature masterpiece.
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (soloist Savitri Grier)
Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Olive - Magnificat
Finzi - In Terra Pax (soprano - Jane Burnell, baritone - Alistair Shelton-Smith)
Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op. 31 (tenor - Greg Tassell, horn - Benjamin Goldscheider)
The English Arts Orchestra led by Julian Milone
Conductor: Leslie Olive
St Mary’s Church, Chart Lane, Reigate RH2 7RN
Saturday December 2nd, 2017 7.30pm
Ticket Prices £22 Front Nave, £17 Rear Nave, £12 Side Aisles
Read Catherine Nasskau's interview with Morten Lauridsen by clicking here ►
Once as I remember
Two Christmas Concerts on successive weekends, in the Chorale's traditional format but of course with a new programme of carols, festive songs and readings.
Conductor: Leslie Olive
Organ/Piano: Ian le Grice
St Mary’s Church, Balcombe RH17 6PX
Sunday December 10th, 2017 4.30pm
Ticket Prices: £12
St Mary’s Church, Bletchingley RH1 4PD
Saturday December 16th, 2017 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: £14 Nave, £10 Side Aisles
Singing Day
With Leslie Olive, founder and Artistic Director of the English Arts Chorale
Verdi Requiem
St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, Reigate RH2 7RN
Saturday March 17th, 2018 10am to 4pm
Organ Transplant
POSTPONED
We were hoping to be able to celebrate the restoration of the mighty Norman & Beard pipe organ in St Mary's Church in this concert, but unfortunately it is not going to be completed in time, and this concert has been postponed to July 14th (see below).
The Singing Day (see above) has been re-arranged for this day.
St Mary's Church Reigate
Saturday March 17th, 2018
War Requiem
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
The English Arts Chorale and Brian Kay's Burford Singers, with the choristers of Bristol Cathedral, combine to give two performances of Britten's War Requiem, marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Read Brian Kay's introduction to the War Requiem by clicking here ►
Soloists Linda Richardson and James Gilchrist
Conductors Brian Kay and Leslie Olive
With the choristers of Bristol Cathedral
and The Burford Singers
Winchester Cathedral
Saturday June 9th, 2018 7.30pm
Ticket Prices £35, £28, £20 - children (under 18) and full-time students £8
Carers for Disabled people - free of charge
Group Discounts Available
Access and Facilities at Winchester Cathedral
Tewkesbury Abbey
Saturday June 23rd, 2018 7pm
Ticket Prices £32, £26, £15 - children (under 18) and full-time students half-price
Carers for Disabled people - free of charge
Access and Facilities at Tewkesbury Abbey
Renowned trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins joins the English Arts Chorale to celebrate the restoration of the mighty pipe
organ in St Mary’s Church, Reigate.
Parry: I was glad
Gjeilo: The ground
(Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor)
Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden
Crispian - talk
(Lefebure-Wely: Sortie in E flat)
Crispian - piece
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Interval
Handel: Hallelujah
Chilcott: Irish Blessing
Crispian - talk
(Widor: Toccata)
Carr: Stabat Mater 3
Crispian - piece
Vaughan Williams: Old Hundredth
Conductor: Leslie Olive
Organ/Piano: James Gough
Trumpet: Crispian Steele-Perkins