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Flying High with Noel Gallagher
With conductor David Temple, Hertfordshire Chorus has been invited to appear with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in Belfast, Dublin, Newcastle and Glasgow on their UK and Ireland Arena tour in February 2012. David also conducted the choral tracks on Noel Gallagher's number one solo album and has collaborated with Noel Gallagher and Oasis in the past.
Conductor David Temple says 'Hertfordshire Chorus is one of the UK's best choirs and it is a huge honour to be invited to take part in this epic tour. We will be singing with Noel Gallagher in February and then in May we sing Mozart! Musical diversity at its best.'
This exciting opportunity will catapult the Chorus into a world of sell-out concerts in venues all over the UK, building on the successes of the last year and broadening still further the range of music and engagements it undertakes.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall with BBC Concert Orchestra
Following our collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra in 2011 (At the Foot of the Cross, recorded in St Albans Cathedral and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Good Friday), we were delighted to perform with them again under their conductor, Keith Lockhart, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 27th January in Music to Die For. The concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 during February 2012.
Willow Foundation - Carols for charity
Christmas 2011 started again at the Willow Foundation's Christmas Carol Concert in St Albans Abbey on 1st December. We enjoyed leading the congregational hymns accompanied for the first time by our own Charles Andrews on the Abbey organ. We also sang several of our favourite unaccompanied carols to the assembled supporters, friends and beneficiaries of this great charity; always a pleasure in such an inspiring building.
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BBC Radio 2 appearance - Good Friday 2011
At the Foot of the Cross on Radio 2 featured Hertfordshire Chorus in Faure's Requiem and other choral items in a meditational programme of words and music recorded in St Alban's Cathedral.
The two-hour programme was introduced by Aled Jones. Hertfordshire Chorus played a central role, performing the whole of Faure’s Requiem with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Keith Lockhart as well as other items directed by David Temple including God so loved the world from Stainer’s Crucifixion, Behold the Lamb of God from Handel’s Messiah, Lotti’s Crucifixus, and Gibbons’ Drop, drop slow tears.
Carolling with Kylie on The One Show
Members of Hertfordshire Chorus and Crouch End Festival Chorus were thrilled to meet Kylie Minogue when she switched on Christmas lights for BBC ONE's The One Show on 3rd December 2010. They sang Ding Dong Merrily on High to create a festive atmosphere and then enjoyed this photo opportunity afterwards.
Solaris is Première of the Fortnight
We are delighted to report that the first performance at the Barbican on May 22nd 2010 of Steve Block's Solaris was chosen to feature as Première of the Fortnight in Classical Music Magazine. That Steve's piece caught the imagination of the reviewer, Glyn Môn Hughes, is indicative of both the appeal of the sun as a musical subject and Steve's choral expression of its universal influence.
BBC website appearance
Robert Wyatt, guest editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, asked people who sang in amateur choirs around the UK to send in recordings. As a result of this we can be heard singing Tallis' If Ye Love Me via the site. Click here to listen
Hertfordshire Chorus appears on BBC2's The Choir
In this episode of BBC 2’s The Choir the newly-created South Oxhey Community Choir was given a platform to sing Barber’s Agnus Dei at the end of a performance by the Hertfordshire Chorus of Verdi’s Requiem in St Albans Abbey. The Chorus enjoyed working with South Oxhey in preparation for this concert and some of its singers joined in the performance of the Barber.
Photo Phil Bowman