Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses are once again invited to join the Prescot Festival Chorus for its annual ‘Come & Sing.’ This year’s event takes place on Saturday 20 June, and the main programme item is Handel’s Messiah (excerpts). The performance opens with the anthem For Mary, Mother of Our Lord, a setting of John Raphael…
24Jan
2019 Prescot Festival Come & Sing: Vivaldi’s Gloria
SATB singers are invited to join the Prescot Festival Chorus for its annual ‘Come & Sing,’ once again conducted by James Luxton (Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral), with Peter Kwater (St Bartholomew’s Rainhill) at the organ. The last few years have since over 100 singers assemble each June to perform choral works ranging from established masterpieces such…
12Apr
Press release: 100 Singers to Mark 100 Years since End of World War One
More than 100 singers are expected to join the Prescot Festival Chorus to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One this June. The ‘Come & Sing’ choir gathers on Saturday 16 June to perform Gabriel Fauré’s stirring Requiem under conductor James Luxton, of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The 19th-century choral composition is a…
25Jan
Come & Sing Fauré’s Requiem, June 2018
The Prescot Festival Chorus will sing Gabriel Fauré’s celebrated Requiem this June, to commemorate 100 years since the end of World War One. The performance takes place at 7pm on Saturday 16 June in Prescot Parish Church, as part of the 14th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts. Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses…
14Feb
Come & Sing Rutter’s Magnificat at the 2017 Prescot Festival
Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses are once again invited to join the Prescot Festival Chorus for a ‘Come & Sing’ concert. This year’s choice of repertoire is: John Rutter, Magnificat (Oxford University Press edition) Hubert Parry, I Was Glad (Novello edition) Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral’s James Luxton conducts, and St Bartholomew’s Rainhill’s Peter Kwater is again at the organ….