16.03.24 St Luke Passion
12.12.23 Christmas Crackers
Ave Rex- Mathias
Christmas Carols
18.11.23 Music for a Winter’s Night
Drop down ye heavens - Plainchant
Music by Joseph Rheinberger
Mass in Eb
Nine Advent Motets
Heimveh
Abendlied
Zum Neuen Jahr
Morgenstern der finstern Nacht
Abendfriede
10.07.23 Songs of the Sea
Opera Choruses from:
The Death Of Klinghoffer - John Adams
Dido and Aeneas - Henry Purcell
The Wreckers - Ethel Smyth
Idomeneo - Amadeus Mozart
Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten
Der Fliegende Holländer - Richard Wagner
A Suffolk Song - Benedict Collins Rice
25.03.23 St John Passion - JS Bach
26.11.22 Powered Up Plainchant
Quatre Motets - Maurice Duruflé
Mass for Double Choir - Frank Martin
Sainte-Chapelle and Alleluia - Eric Whitacre
11.06.22 Sounds and Sweet Airs
Reincarnations – Samuel Barber
Like a Red, Red Rose – Janet Wheeler
The winter it is past – Janet Wheeler
Down by the Salley Gardens – arr John Vine
Dashing Away with the smoothing iron - John Rutter
The Lark in the Clear Air – Grayston Ives
The Sailor and Young Nancy – E J Moeran
Brigg Fair – arr Percy Grainger
The Gallant Weaver – James MacMillan
A Suffolk Song – Benedict Collins Rice
O Waly Waly – Richard Shepherd
02.04.22 St Mark Passion - JS Bach
04.12.21 The Wonderful Gifts
St Nicolas - Britten
Tribus miraculis - Palestrina
Fantasia on Christmas Carols -
Vaughan Williams
24.07.21 Music For Evensong
Coronation Anthems - Handel
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Coleridge-Taylor
Psalm 119
Cornation Preces and Responses - Benedict Collins Rice
14.12.20
A babe is born - William Mathias
A Winter Rose – Benedict Collins Rice
Out of your sleep - Richard Rodney Bennett
Ave Rex – William Mathias
The three kings - Peter Cornelius arr. Frank A. Atkins
Shepherd's pipe carol - John Rutter
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - John Gardner
18.10.20
Cantata 48 - JS Bach
A winter rose shall flower - Benedict Collins Rice
16.05.20
This concert had to be cancelled due to the Covid 19 virus, but we enjoyed singing some of the pieces together by Zoom. The programme we had been rehearsing was:
Like a Red, Red, Rose and The Winter It Is Past - Janet Wheeler
Reincarnations: Mary Hynes, Anthony O’Daly, The Coolin Samuel Barber
Down by the Sally Gardens - John Vine
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron - John Rutter
The Lark in the Clear Air - Grayston Ives
The sailor and young Nancy - E J Moeran
Brigg Fair - Percy Grainger
The Gallant Weaver - James MacMillan
The Miller of Dee - arr. Benedict Collins Rice
29.02.20
Officium Defunctorum -Tomas Luis de Victoria
Seven Last Words from the Cross - James MacMillan
with The Façade Ensemble
07.12.19
Long, Long Ago
Advent Cantata BWV36 - JS Bach
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - John Gardner
Seinte Mari moder milde - James MacMillan
A babe is born - William Mathias
The three kings - Peter Cornelius arr. Frank A. Atkins
In Dulci Jubilo - Robert Lucas Pearsall
Sir Christèmas - William Mathias
In the bleak midwinter - Harold Darke
Shepherd's pipe carol - John Rutter
Out of your sleep - Richard Rodney Bennett
Ring the Bells - Paul Fincham (royalties to Crisis)
Some classic congregational carol
26.10.19
Choral Singing Day
Ipswich Chamber Choir had a day of challenging but enjoyable choral singing, working on three rarely performed choral gems. The day explored 400 years of choral masterpieces spanning from the sublime polyphony of Victoria's 'Officium Defunctorum' to the powerful emotion of MacMillan's 'Seven Last Words from the Cross' via the bubbly Baroque fun of JS Bach's Advent Cantata BWV36.
Our talented Music Director Benedict Collins Rice has great skill at vocal coaching and interpretation. He helped us improve our vocal technique and guided us towards a satisfying performance at the conclusion of the day.
01.06.19
All that Jazz
'S Wonderful - Gershwin arr. Benedict Collins Rice
Tea for Two - Youmans arr. Peter Gritton
Bye Bye Black Bird - Henderson arr. Wikeley
Let’s do it - Porter arr. David Blackwell - Quintet
Rhapsody in blue - Gershwin (edited version) - Piano solo by Emma Haggar
Summertime - Gershwin arr. Steve Jamison - Barbershop Quartet
Blue Moon - Rogers & Hart arr. David Blackwell
Begin the Beguine - Porter arr. Andrew Carter
The Way You Look Tonight - Kern arr. Simmons
Java Jive - Oakland and Drake arr. Benedict Collins Rice
Hello Mary Lou - Pitney & Mangiaracina arr. B Collins Rice
I Get Around - Wilson & Love arr. B Collins Rice
A Little Jazz Mass -Bob Chilcott 2004
30.03.19
B minor Mass - J S Bach
with The Geldart Ensemble
17.11.18
Songs of Farewell - Hubert Parry
Poetry from the War Poets and local, living poets
By a bier-side - Ivor Gurney
Requiem - Gabriel Fauré (organ accompaniment)
Greater Love Hath No Man - John Ireland
19.5.18
Four choral Hymns from the Rig Veda - Gustav Holst
Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude - J S Bach
If ye love me - Thomas Tallis
Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré
World Première Performances - John Brunning
Ubi Caritas
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Prayer of St Francis
Ave Maria ii
24.3.18
St John Passion - J S Bach
with Tower Sinfonia
18.11.17
Remembrance
Agnus Dei - Samuel Barber
Lux Aeterna - Edward Elgar arr. John Cameron
Hymn to the Creator of Light - John Rutter
Ubi Caritas & Tantum Ergo - Maurice Duruflé
Requiem - Maurice Duruflé
27.5.17
Songs of the Isles
Traditional Scottish Songs - conducted by Emma Haggar
Poems - read by James Knox Whittet
Farewell to Stromness - piano solo by William Baldry
25.3.17
Vespers of 1610 - Monteverdi
With the Choristers of St Mary-le-Tower and The Ravenscroft Consort
17.12.16
The Messiah - Handel
Joint concert with Tower Chamber Choir and the Choristers of St Mary-le Tower
19.11.16
Choral Singing Workshop
Movements from The Monteverdi Vespers, Handel’s Israel in Egypt and O sing joyfully by Adrian Batten
5.11.16
A Portrait of Vaughan Williams
Three Shakespeare Songs - Vaughan Williams
Greensleeves - attributed Henry VIII
Why fum’th in sight - Thomas Tallis
Hail Gladdening Light - Charles Wood
Nunc dimittis - Gustav Holst
There is an old belief - Hubert Parry
Valiant for Truth - Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music - Vaughan Williams
21.5.16
Grand Opera Choruses
Roman Carnival (Benvenuto Cellini) - Hector Berliioz
March of the toreadors (Carmen) - George Bizet
Easter Hymn (Cavalleria Rusticana) - Pietro Mascagni
Anvil Chorus (Il Travatore) - Guiseppi Verdi
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco) - Guiseppi Verdi
Triumphal Scene (Aida) - Guiseppi Verdi
12.03.16
Beware the Vengeful God
Cantate Domino (Psalm 97) - Monteverdi
Domine in furore tuo (Psalm 6) - Monteverdi
Beatus vir (Psalm 112) - Monteverdi
Dixit Dominus - Handel
21.11.15
Music of Love and Loss
Magnificat - Buxtehude
Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren - Schutz
Didone Abbandonata - Tartini (Beatrice Scaldini, violin)
Ciacona from Meiine Freundin du bist so schon. - JC Bach
Jauchzet den Herren alle Welt - Schutz
Ich lasse dich nicht du segnest mich den - JS Bach
Passacaglia in G minor - Biber (Beatrice Scaldini, violin)
Komm Jesu, Komm - JS Bach
16.05.15
Gloria in D major - Vivaldi
Dido and Aeneas - Purcell
14.02.15
Lux Aurumque: Music of Purity and Light
Ubi Caritas - Morten Lauridsen
Te lucis ante terminum - Thomas Tallis
Bogoroditse Dyevo - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Totus Tuus - Henryk Gorecki
Precamur Sancte Domine - Robert White
Lux Aurumque and Sleep - Eric Whitacre
08.11.14
Petite Messe Solennelle - Rossini
30th Anniversary Concert
19.10.14
Coronation Anthems - Handel
with Aldeburgh Voices
17.05.14
The Second English Renaissance
Magnificat - Gerald Finzi
Song of Freedom - Charles Villiers Stanford , Solo
Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
Song of Battle - Stanford, Solo
Hear my prayer - Felix Mendelssohn
Hear my words ye people - Hubert Parry
Song of Hope - Stanford, Solo
Nolo mortem peccatoris - Thomas Morley
Song of Trust - Stanford, Solo
Great is the Lord - Edward Elgar
22.03.14
Tea with Monteverdi at Rushmere Church
Sestina: Lagrime d’amante al selpolcro dell’amata - Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro torna - Claudio Monteverdi
Lamento d’Arianna - Claudio Monteverdi
(Soloist: Harriet Llewellyn)
Two Madrigals from ‘Six Fire Songs’ - Morten Lauridsen
Quando son piu lontan
Se per havervi, oime
22.12.13
Carol Service at Harkstead Church
30.11.13
A Portrait of Brahms
Geistliches Lied - J. Brahms
Selig sind die toten - H. Schütz
Gute Nacht - R. Schumann
Lorelei - C. Schumann (solo Daniela Bechly)
Ihr habt nun traurigkeit (from Ein Deutsches Requiem) - J. Brahms
Gute Nacht - Clara Schumann (solo D Blechly)
Denn alles Fleische es ist wie Gras (from Ein Deutsches Requiem) - J. Brahms
Einfömig ich in Liebes gram - J. Brahms
Der Leiermann (from Wintereisse) - F. Schubert (solo: D Blechly)
Lobet den Herrn - J.S. Bach
Intermezzo in A (op.118 no.2) - J. Brahms (solo: Alice Borrett)
Vier Quartetten - J. Brahms