Roderick Williams OBE, renowned baritone, becomes a patron of Birmingham Bach Choir & gives a recital

Roderick Williams Special Recital

 As part of our 100 years celebrations

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Thursday 9 May 7.30 pm

Bromsgrove

Routh Hall, Bromsgrove School, Bromsgrove B61 7DU

He will perform two beautiful song cycles:

 Beethoven: An die Ferne Geliebte

 Schubert: Schwanengesang

Tickets £22 - £10

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Review….

I cannot recall previously leaving a concert wishing that it hadn’t ended, but that was the effect on me following Saturday night’s Passiontide concert at St Philip’s Cathedral given by the Birmingham Bach Choir……  

Click here for full review by Martyn Parfect

Paul Spicer wrote of the performance…..

The Bach Choir’s recent Passiontide concert was amongst the most memorable of my more than quarter of a century with them. For one thing I had vowed never to perform Howells’s extraordinary Requiem with an amateur choir after having a terrible experience some years ago. I also know that when my predecessor, Richard Butt, attempted to do it it was extremely touch and go! But the choir is now in such a good place (really better than it has probably ever been) that I was confident in programming it alongside Leighton’s almost equally moving Crucifixus pro nobis and other beautiful Passiontide works. My confidence was justified as the choir not only sailed through the challenges of both works but gave memorably moving performances of both. It is an exciting time for the choir and we look forward to some wonderful repertoire challenges in the next couple of years.

(Paul Spicer April 2019)

STEAL AWAY - SPIRITUALS TO MELT THE HEART

Saturday 22 June 7.30 pm

Pershore Abbey, Pershore

Saturday 6 July 7.30 pm

CBSO Centre, Birmingham

Tickets on sale here

The Choir starts to prepare for it’s tour of northern France (late May) where it will perform in Rouen & Chartres Cathedrals and the ancient church of St Catherines in Honfleur. The programme will include many of the motets sung at our Passiontide concert this year ( including by Bach, Lotti, Lassus, Tallis & Bruckner ) plus wonderful motets by Villette, as well as Howell’s Magnificat. Paul Spicer will conduct us throughout, with Paul Carr as organist