Concert history

This is a list of all known concerts. Follow the links in the left-hand column to find pictures, recordings, and other memorabilia. If anyone has further information, photographs, corrections etc., please send them to the webmaster.

Use of programme notes

Programme notes are produced by the choir for all concerts, and where possible are linked from the relevant concert pages. These notes are available for use by other choirs, without restriction, but if you do wish to make use of our programme notes then we would like to hear about it, so please email secretary@summertownchoral.org.uk to let us know.

Date	Programme	Venue	Conductor
Jun 19	Schubert Mass in E^♭ Ives (arr.) One Morning in Spring: Three Folksongs from Oxfordshire (Première)	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Feb 19	Monteverdi Vespers (1610)	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 18	Parry four part songs (Since thou, o fondest; O love, they wrong thee much; Come pretty wag and sing; In praise of song); There is an old belief; Long since in Egypt's plenteous land and Put off, O Jerusalem from Judith Walter Parratt Tears for the good and true Vaughan Williams Te Deum in G Stanford If ye then be risen with Christ; Preludes for piano op. 163, nos. 2, 10 and 15 Purcell My heart is inditing; Chaconne in D minor; My beloved spake	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Feb 18	Handel Israel in Egypt	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jun 17	Puccini Messa di Gloria Wagner Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin Mozart Agnus Dei from the Coronation Mass; Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339; Voyagers' Chorus from Idomeneo Purcell Dido's Lament and 'With drooping wings' from Dido and Aeneas Joseph Parry Y Cychod ar yr Afon Berlioz The Shepherds' Farewell from L'Enfance du Christ Verdi Va, pensiero from Nabucco	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Feb 17	Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 4-6) Bach Lobet denn Herrn Buxtehude 'Ad ubera portabimini' from Membra Jesu nostri	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jun 16	Haydn 'Spring' and 'Summer' from The Seasons Bartók Four Slovak Folksongs Dvořák Songs of Nature Arensky Praise ye the Lord in Heaven	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 16	Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1-3) Monteverdi 'Nisi Dominus' from the Vespers of 1610 Carissimi 'Plorate Filii Israel' from Historia di Jephte	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jun 15	Mozart Coronation Mass Handel Israel in Egypt Schubert Mass in G Verdi Chorus of the Scottish Refugees Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves	St. Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 15	Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle Rossini O Salutaris Hostia Giacomo Meyerbeer Pater Noster	St. Michael and All Angels	Duncan Saunderson
Jun 14	A Celebration of English Melody: Vaughan Williams Bushes and Briars; Dives and Lazarus; Linden Lea; O clap your hands; Old Hundredth; The Turtle Dove Wood Full fathom five Weelkes Hark all ye lovely saints Parry Blest pair of sirens Holst My sweetheart's like Venus; There was a tree Finzi I praise the tender flower Tallis Why fum'th in flight Gant RVW Suite: Prelude on a theme of Thomas Tallis; In the windless stillness; The fall of the leaf; The ploughboy's dream (Première)	St. Michael and All Angels	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 14	Haydn Nelson Mass Purcell Come ye Sons of Art; I was Glad; My Heart is Inditing	St Barnabas Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jun 13	Murder, Morse & Mozart: Mozart Requiem Bruce Montgomery Spring the Sweet Spring; Full Fathom Five; My Joy, My Life, My Crown! Dorothy Sayers I've got a Little List Herbert Howells St. Hugh's Galliard George Dyson Revielle Franz Schubert An die Musik Geoffrey Bush Prélude and Sicilienne (from Suite Champêtre) George Dyson Evening Service in D Charles Wood Expectans Expectavi Albert Peace Hymn 699; O Love That Will Not Let Me Go	St Barnabas Church	Duncan Saunderson
Feb 13	Bach St. John Passion	St Barnabas Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 12	Randall Thompson Frostiana: Seven Country Songs Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Benjamin Britten Rejoice in the Lamb; A Hymn of St. Columba; Hymn to St. Peter Charles Villiers Stanford Songs of the Sea Gerald Finzi My Spirit Sang All Day	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Feb 12	Bach Mass in B Minor	St Andrew's church	Duncan Saunderson
Jul 11	Handel My Heart is Inditing; Foundling Hospital Anthem Mendelssohn Ave Maria Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (1,7); In Stiller Nacht Philip Moore Three Oxford Songs (Première) Tippett Five Negro Spirituals (1,2,4) Parry My Delight Copland The Boatmen’s Dance Ives Songs of Ariel	Sheldonian Theatre	Duncan Saunderson
Feb 11	Handel Messiah	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 10	Parry Ode on St Cecilia's Day; My Delight Purcell Though Knowest, Lord; Funeral Sentences; Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei Stanford Heraclitus	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 10	Monteverdi 1610 Vespers (excerpts) Handel Nisi Dominus; The King Shall Rejoice Dering Factum Est Silentium Humfrey Hear O Heavens	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 09	Mozart Great Mass in C minor Ives Songs of Ariel (Première) Bach Agnus Dei (from Mass in B minor) Haydn The Heavens Are Telling	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 09	Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Schubert The Lord Is My Shepherd Schumann Widmung (arr. Saunderson)	St Margaret's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 08	Handel Chandos Anthem No. 9 Haydn Spring, (from The Seasons) Britten Five Flower Songs	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 08	Haydn Winter (from The Seasons) Walton Jubilate Deo Britten Te Deum in C Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden Brahms Geistliches Lied	St Margaret's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 07	Mozart Ave Verum; Laudate Dominum Stravinsky Mass; Pater Noster Tavener Funeral Ikos Pearsall Requiem; O Who Will O'er the Downs so Free Pitoni Cantate Domino	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 07	Haydn Maria Theresa Mass Beethoven Mass in C	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 06	Fauré Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine Vierne Messe Solennelle Duruflé Tota Pulchra Es; Notre Père	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 06	Vivaldi Gloria J S Bach Lobet den Herrn Handel Utrecht Te Deum Britten Jubilate	St Andrew's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 05	Sir Michael Tippett Five Negro Spirituals (from A Child of Our Time) Guido Haazen (arr.) Missa Luba Mozart Requiem Mass Aaron Copland The Boatmen's Dance; Long Time Ago; Simple Gifts R Vaughan Williams Linden Lea; The Turtle Dove	St Margaret's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 05	J S Bach Magnificat Henry Purcell My Heart is Inditing Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jun 04	Handel Zadok the Priest; Let the Bright Seraphim Mozart Ave Verum; Laudate Dominum Gibbons This is the Record of John Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Schubert Ave Maria Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae Bruckner Locus Iste Mendelssohn Hear my Prayer Elgar Give Unto the Lord; Ave Verum Stanford Te Deum Stainer God So Loved the World Wise The Ways of Zion Do Mourn Parry I Was Glad	St Peter's College Chapel	Duncan Saunderson and David Gould with Stanmore Choral Society
Jan 04	Purcell Come Ye Sons Of Art Handel The King Shall Rejoice; My Heart Is Inditing; Birthday Ode for Queen Anne Byrd O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth Our Queen	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 03	Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 03	Mozart "Great" Mass in C minor; Who Can Comprehend Thee? (Wind Serenade in B♭) Haydn Te Deum	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 02	Purcell Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary Blow I Was Glad Haydn Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse) Gant A Hymn for the Golden Jubilee	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 02	Handel Messiah	St Barnabas' Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 01	Stravinsky Mass Fauré Requiem Mass Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 01	Purcell Dido & Aenaeas Vivaldi Beatus Vir Handel Zadok the Priest	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 00	Mozart Requiem Mass Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae; The Heavens are Telling Süssmayr Ave Verum	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 00	Handel Judas Maccabaeus	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 99	Michael Tippett Five negro spirituals (from A Child of Our Time) Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Abbé Theodas Messe Solennelle en l'Honneur de Ste Claire Guido Haazen (arr.) Missa Luba Parry Hear My Words, Ye People	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 99	Haydn Nelson Mass Charpentier Te Deum Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 98	Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 98	Vivaldi Magnificat/Gloria Handel Foundling Hospital Anthem Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 97	Pergolesi Magnificat Purcell Hush No More (from Faerie Queen); ComeYe Sons of Art Handel Oh, the pleasure of the plains! (from Acis and Galatea)	New College Chapel	Duncan Saunderson
Jan 97	Mozart Mass in C Schubert Mass in G Handel Zadok the Priest; My Heart is Inditing	St Michael's Church	Duncan Saunderson
May 96	Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Stanford Songs of the Fleet Walford Davies Nursery Rhymes Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest Hadley My Beloved Spake Elgar O Harken Thou	New College Chapel	Stephen Taylor
Jan 96	Dvorak Mass in D; Blessed Jesu, Fount of Mercy Elgar Give Unto the Lord; The Spirit of the Lord; Ave Verum	St Michael's Church	Stephen Taylor
May 95	Haydn Harmonie Messe Mozart Laudate Dominum; Ave Verum Corpus	Keble College Chapel	Stephen Taylor
Jan 95	Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols Charpentier Messe de Minuit	St Michael's Church	Stephen Taylor
Apr 94	Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle	Keble College Chapel	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Jan 94	Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1-3, 5, and 6)	St Michael's Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Jun 93	Vaughan Williams Wasps Overture Malcolm Arnold Little Suite David Pope From Here to Burgess Hill Donald Paine Sea Songs Elgar Pomp and Circumstance Marches	Wesley Memorial Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Apr 93	Haydn Creation	Keble College Chapel	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Dec 92	Britten A Ceremony of Carols	St Michael's Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Apr 92	Fauré Requiem Schubert Mass in G	St Michael's Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Dec 91	Hummel Mass in B^♭	St Michael's Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Jun 91	Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts (with Oxford Harmonic Society)	Sheldonian Theatre	Robert Secret
Mar 91	Stainer Crucifixion	St Michael's Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Dec 90	Handel Messiah	Oxford Town Hall	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Jun 90	Beethoven Symphony no. 9 (with Oxford Harmonic Society)	Sheldonian Theatre	Robert Secret
Apr 90	Bach St John Passion	Merton College	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Dec 89	Bach Christmas Oratorio (Part 1); Sleepers Awake	St Michael's Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Jun 89	Verdi Requiem (with Oxford Harmonic Society and others)	Sheldonian Theatre	Robert Secret
Dec 88	Haydn The Seasons	University Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
May 88	Mozart Requiem; Vesperae Solennes de Confessore	Merton College	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Nov 87	Vivaldi Gloria; Magnificat	Wesley memorial Church	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Jun 87	Mendelssohn Elijah	Oxford town hall	Chris Fletcher-Campbell
Dec 86	Haydn Nelson Mass	St Michael's Church	Neil Sissons
May 86	Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle		Neil Sissons
Dec 85	Britten A Ceremony of Carols Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols	St Michael's Church	Neil Sissons
May 85	Dvorak Requiem mass	St Michael's Church	Neil Sissons
Dec 84	Handel Messiah (selection) Charpentier Messe de Minuit	St Michael's Church	Neil Sissons
May 84	Haydn Creation	Keble College	Neil Sissons
Dec 83	Handel Dixit Dominus Bach Sleepers Awake	St Andrew's Church	Neil Sissons
May 83	Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem	Keble College Chapel	David Pritchard
Dec 82	Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1-3, 5, and 6)	SS Philip & James	David Pritchard
May 82	Handel O Praise the Lord With One Consent Haydn Nelson Mass	SS Philip & James	David Pritchard
Dec 81	Vivaldi Gloria Buxtehude The Little Newborn Jesus Child	SS Philip & James	David Pritchard
May 81	Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony	Cherwell school	David Pritchard
Dec 80	Britten A Ceremony of Carols Bernstein Chichester Psalms		David Pritchard
May 80	Byrd Mass for Four Voices Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Fauré Requiem		David Pritchard
Dec 79	Charpentier Messe de Minuit	SS Philip & James	David Pritchard
May 79	Handel Judas Maccabaeus	St Michael's Church	David Pritchard
Dec 78	Handel Messiah (selection) Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols	St Michael's Church	David Pritchard
May 78	Schubert Mass in G Mozart Requiem	St Michael's Church	David Langdon
Dec 77	Bach Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1-3)	SS Philip & James	David Langdon
May 77	Dvorak Mass in D; Bach Magnificat	Keble College Chapel	David Langdon
Dec 76	Buxtehude Magnificat Monterverdi Beatus Vir Finzi In Terra Pax		David Langdon
Dec 75	Handel Messiah (selection)	St Michael's Church	David Langdon
May 75	Mendelssohn Elijah	Keble College Chapel	David Langdon
May 74	Mozart Coronation Mass		David Langdon
Dec 73	Charpentier Messe de Minuit	St Michael's Church	David Langdon
May 73	Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem	Keble College Chapel	David Langdon
Dec 61	Fauré Requiem	St Michael's Church	Edward Olleson/David Gatwood