Familiarity & surprise - hallmarks of the Christmas experience - come and hear a perfectly tuned combination in Chichester on December 5th 6pm portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/a-bar...
Portsmouth Baroque Choir
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Amateur choir based in Portsmouth UK exploring SATB repertoire from Renaissance to present day.
Crepuscular match @kirstymatheson.bsky.social and mutual admiration of John Sheppard's 'Libera Nos' portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/at-th...
Our next concert, designed to send you to bed with a clearer head. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/at-th...
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Portsmouth Baroque Choir offer American Choral Music
Portsmouth Baroque Choir’s Festival of Chichester concert 2026 will be American Choral Music: a celebration on the 250th anniversary of Independence Day
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American in Paris - Aaron Copland when studying with Nadia Boulanger, 1 of about 600 Americans who did so. Wrote 4 motets there, delights in 1st half of our #USA250 concert on July 4th in Festival of Chichester.
William Billings “carver” of melodies, associate of Samuel Adams and Mather Byles, bohemian character with loud singing voice, opens & closes our Celebration of American Choral Music on July 4th. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/ameri...
No celebration of American music complete without Charles Ives, ‘Psalm 67’ in our folder for July 4 concert, a student work foreshadowing mature Ives. Latest PBC blog post explains. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-not… 🎟��� ticketsource.com/baroquechchoir #America250
During the half-term break from rehearsing for our next concert on July 4th, Pru Bell-Davies invites you to share some of the thrilling musical discoveries of her American road-trip in 2001. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/am...
A sad loss to music in the Solent region portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/ch...
Chris Burgess (1939-2026) - Portsmouth Baroque Choir
Members of Portsmouth Baroque Choir and Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia were deeply saddened to hear that Chris had passed away in April this year. Some of those who worked with him join long-term friends...
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STOP - Gala Portsmouth Guildhall May 9. Portsmouth musical ensembles celebrate city’s centenary - @royalmarines.bsky.social @portsmouthcathedral.org.uk et al: Copland, Walton, Parry, Rutter, McDowall, Saint-Saëns, Saggers, Swain. 🎟️ shorturl.at/PxKDH
Very sad to report death in the early hours of Thursday morning (16th April) of Chris Burgess, conductor Drayton Choral Soc from September 1978, changing their name to Portsmouth Baroque Choir, led until June 1989. Also directed Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia A fine bass vocalist too. RIP.
'Messiah' (part 1) is on our Christmas list this year. To find out more about why it's so often performed around Christmas (and why it is so universally popular), have a listen (UK residents) to this morning's edition of 'In our time' on BBC R4: highly recommended! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Handel's Messiah - BBC Sounds
The origin and development of Handel's great sacred oratorio, premiered in Dublin in 1742.
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Shuke organ (1982) St. George's, Eisenach (largest in Thuringia) where Bach sang & Telemann & Johann Christoph Bach played. Different prospect at Portchester Methodist but sounds glorious: hear Peter Gould next Saturday in our concert Bach family motets. 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Blog re BWV 118, curtain-raiser for our March 14th concert, including suitable & practical replacements for litui, existential angst for the tenors and comparison with its pugnacious, elder sibling, BWV 101. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-not… Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Bach motets: what do we know about the circumstances of their composition and how was Bach motivated by pride in his family’s musical connections to arrive at his singular approach to writing music? portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n... 🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Bach’s forebears set a precedent with their motets - the response was extraordinary portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/bach-...
As a prelude and taster for our concert of Bach family motets in Portchester on March 14, which of these is the more numerous? a. the number of Bachs who earned their living wholly or partly from music between the early sixteenth century and the mid-nineteenth? b. types of German sausage?
Brightly shone the moon last night Our term’s work done In the small quiet church at the turn in the lane To hear the legend of our play… Tonight at 7pm the Portsmouth Baroque Choir Christmas concert at Havant United Reformed Church. See poster for highlights & tickets.
Vivaldi's Magnificat headlines our Xmas concert - concise, extrovert, bright, brisk and clear. Did it involve teamwork with the celebrated female choir of the Ospedale della Pietà? Harriet Constable's 2024 novel 'The Instrumentalist' has got us thinking. shorturl.at/g6NHF 🎟️ shorturl.at/g6NHF
Tapping once again into the endless resource that is new choral music for Christmastime - a peculiarly British phenomenon? Portsmouth-area composers Ian Schofield and Philip Drew pull some crackers with Joanna Marsh, Bob Chilcott and John Tavener. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n...
Jean Mouton, master of music as soft power, and his involvement in the Medici Codex portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/mu... Mouton's 'Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum', a highlight of the first half of our Christmas Concert on December 6th 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Jean Mouton whose elaborate and magical motet 'Nesciens Mater' is a highlight of the first half of our Christmas Concert. Good overview of Mouton in Early Music Show www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 'Nesciens Mater' El León De Oro youtu.be/Rte5pBp_NeI?...
So, there was a review. Thank you, David Holmes. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/af...
Aftermath of a Roman date with Handel and Scarlatti - Portsmouth Baroque Choir
You could sense in the final rehearsal on the day that something special was about to unfold in performance. After weeks of rehearsing in the unforgiving acoustic of the Buckland Community Centre and ...
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A selection of photos by David Harris of our concert at St Paul's Chichester last Saturday portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/gallery/
Doors ajar at St Pauls' Church Chichester for our concert of Baroque brilliance this evening. What the papers and socials are saying - Chichester Observer shorturl.at/2P8aS musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-port... musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-part... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti this Saturday at St Pauls' Church Chichester. Malcolm Keeler, The Consort of Twelve and singers tell it like it is for the Chichester Observer. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/community/po... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Portsmouth Baroque Choir return for Chichester concert
Portsmouth Baroque Choir returns to St Paul’s, Chichester after a two-year gap in a collaboration with the Consort of Twelve.
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Feedback from choir: "Dixit Dominus is like an intense, exhilarating rollercoaster ride"; "The St Cecilia Mass is a fitting tribute to one who sang to God in her heart" portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/hande... NB Northgate Car Park closed on concert day. Use St Cyriacs or Orchard Street 🚘
Thankyou Music in Portsmouth!🤓 musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-port... musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-part... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Preview (part 1): Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the Consort of Twelve - Handel and Scarlatti - Music in Portsmouth
Portsmouth Baroque Choir’s Autumn 2025 concert with the Consort of Twelve at St Paul’s Chichester on 18 October presents two exemplary and uplifting works written in Rome during the first quarter of 1...
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PBC blog invokes Nora Fischer, St Cecilia and Ficino to argue for a more sympathetic hearing for Alessandro Scarlatti, once considered one of the best. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/uncategorize... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
