Category: Archived
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Handel’s “Messiah”
Our 2025-26 season started with a performance of Handel’s most popular oratorio, Messiah. Perhaps unusually, this was a September matinée performance, on 27th September, at Christ Church, New Mill. A small group of instrumentalists from The Valley Sinfonia (led by Mary Barber) provided the accompaniment, and the soloists included internationally acclaimed operatic soprano Nicola Mills,…
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Summer Concert -A Kaleidoscope of Choral Colour
Our Summer concert again took place in Holmfirth Methodist Church on Saturday 28th June 2025, and was followed by canapés and (non-alcoholic) fizz and a social. It was an informal gathering in summery dress on a hot day when the church was cool at the start of the concert, but hotter by the end! Many…
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Mozart Requiem & Poulenc Gloria
Our first concert of 2025 featured Mozart’s ever-popular Requiem, his final work which famously was incomplete at his early death, and which has been “completed” several times by various composers and scholars. We used the more traditional version attributed to Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who did know Mozart and sometimes worked with him. Also in our…
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Christmas Concert and Tea
Our second concert of the 24/25 season was a Christmas-themed concert in our rehearsal venue – Holmfirth Methodist Church, followed by a Buffet Tea in the community room there. The concert included some of the Christmas music from Handel’s Messiah together with a selection of Christmas music both popular and less well-known. There were also…
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Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle
The first major concert of our 2024-2025 season was a performance of one of Rossini’s latest works, written only a couple of years before his death. Although entitled “Petite” – small, it is a full-length mass, using the Latin words that are very familiar to Holmfirth Choral members. Perhaps it was small in the sense…
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Come & Sing – Fauré’s “Requiem”
Calling all singers! This was an opportunity to come along, rehearse, and the perform this much-loved work. Holmfirth Choral led the singing, and a few visitors joined in. There was a small but appreciative audience for the performance.
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From Pub to Pulpit
In June 2023, we took part in a celebration of Vaughan Williams’ music, specifically his collecting of folk tunes which metamorphosed into hymn tunes which he incorporated into the English Hymnal of 1906 which he edited. The celebration was a year long, involving concerts around the country, and we were privileged to be invited the…
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Requiem for a Fading World
Holmfirth Choral (plus a few friends) provided the choir which was part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival production of Kerrin Tatman’s Requiem for a fading world, a work in 11 movements for two soloists, choir, orchestra and piano, which formed half of a double-bill concert at Holmfirth Civic Hall on August 3rd. Following an excellent…
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Summer Serenade
On June 29th, we presented a selection of shorter pieces that we have enjoyed practising over the last few weeks as an informal summer concert – which was followed by canapes and drinks. An enjoyable end to the 2023-24 season.
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Concert – April 20th 2024
Our final full concert of the 2023-2024 season. It lived up to its title – our soloists and orchestra were superb, and the concert was a resounding success. It was kindly sponsored by Pearson Funeral Service – see what they said here