Christmas Concert - I Saw Three Ships, St Giles, Cheddington
Last night (Friday the 10th December) we gave our first Christmas concert of 2010 in our village church, St Giles - Cheddington. As ever, there was a good audience of around 80 people, many of whom had seen us perform before and the atmosphere was very festive with plenty of mulled wine, mince pies, candles [...]
Two Noels by Charpentier
These two works by M.A Charpentier are twinned on our disc and were originally written for organ, intended to be performed as part of Midnight Mass (messe de minuit). These two carols are unique on the disc because they were direct transcriptions from Charpentier’s original work and very little was done to them apart from [...]
A Warm and Intimate Concert on a Freezing Night
On Friday, we were to perform the second Christmas concert at the Church of St Michael in the North Gate in central Oxford. Keeping the programme quite similar to the concert at St Giles the week before, we still scheduled in a day of rehearsal as Reiad (Viola) was due to play in place of Adrian who [...]
Candlelit Concert, St Giles, Cheddington
On Friday the 11th December we really got into the Christmas spirit with a programme of winter and festive music performed by candlelight in our village Church, St Giles, Cheddington. This is the fourth time we’ve performed in the church and word seems to have got around because by the week of the concert, the organisers [...]
