Christmas Spectacular with City of Bristol Choir

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

City of Bristol Choir Bristol Ensemble Roger Huckle director David Ogden conductor Under the baton of the inimitable David Ogden, come and enjoy some wonderful Christmas music with choir items, audience participation and festive orchestral music. Bristol Ensemble and the 90-strong City of Bristol Choir join forces again to bring Christmas cheer and festivities in […]

Fitzhardinge Consort & Bristol Ensemble

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Ralph Vaughan Williams Suite for Viola Valiant-for-Truth Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Lord, Thou Has been Our Refuge Serenade to Music Charterhouse Suite Fantasia on Christmas Carols Thomas Tallis  Tunes from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter St George’s Bristol rounds off its celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams in his 150th anniversary year with a special choral […]

Cosmos and Preludes Christmas concert

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Children from St George’s ‘Cosmos Choir’ project (based at Oasis Academy Connaught) team up with four primary schools from Bristol Ensemble’s ‘Preludes’ project (Perry Court, Four Acres, Somerdale and Ilminster Avenue) to sing a fabulously festive selection of songs, accompanied by a live band of musicians – what better way to start the seasonal festivities! […]

Viva Vivaldi by Candlelight

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Bristol Ensemble Fitzhardinge Consort Raffaele Esposito – mandolin Sally Bartholomew – bassoon Roger Huckle – violin Simon Kodurand – violin Imogen Triner – oboe Vivaldi Gloria Bassoon concerto in E RV484 Mandolin Concerto in C RV425 Oboe & Violin Concerto RV 548 Violin Concerto - Winter St George’s is transformed into a candlelight auditorium taking […]

Music of Remembrance

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

City of Bristol Choir Bristol Ensemble David Ogden conductor Amy Dickson saxophone Richard Johnson piano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo soprano Felix Kemp baritone Richard Blackford Pietà Ralph Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem Anatoly Avdievsky Ukrainian Lullaby With its dramatic, visual quality, gripping narrative and vividly descriptive scoring, Pietà by Richard Blackford is a beautiful setting of the Stabat Mater text interspersed with poems from the Ukrainian born poet Anna […]

La Création du Monde

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Milhaud  La Création du Monde Max Richter Nature of Daylight Haydn Symphony no 6 Le Matin Wagner Siegfried Idyll Copland Appalachian Spring This performance opens with Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, a jazz-inspired ballet and ends with a celebration of nature with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. In between, the ensemble explores more complex human emotions with Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight and the wonderful Siegfried […]

St John Passion

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

J.S. Bach St John Passion

Handel’s Messiah

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

City of Bristol Choir conducted by David Ogden Bristol Ensemble Keri Fuge - soprano Felicity Buckland - mezzo soprano Gavan Ring - tenor Alex Ashworth - bass City of Bristol Choir joins forces with Bristol Ensemble and a fabulous line up of soloists to perform Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, at St George’s Bristol. The work is full of […]

Romantic Rhapsody

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

The Bristol Ensemble