Concert Archive
Festival of Singing
15 June 2019 · St Andrew's, Psalter Lane
Our 70th anniversary season concludes with a day-long Festival of Singing featuring a young soloists' masterclass with Professor Mark Wildman and a concert of anthems with Sheffield Oratorio Chorus, Sheffield Oratorio Chamber Choir and young soloists from the masterclass.
Mozart Requiem
16 March 2019 · Sheffield Cathedral
In this concert the haunting Mozart Requiem ispaired with Handel's beautiful and expansive anthem The Ways of Zion, written in 1737 as a funeral anthem for Queen Caroline, consort of George II.
Carol Concert 2018
20 December 2018 · St Andrew's, Psalter Lane
Carols for Christmas with young singers from Sheffield.
A Child of Our Time
03 November 2018 · Sheffield Cathedral
Commemorating 100 years since the end of WW1, and 80 years since the pogrom known as Krystallnacht, an atrocity which is at the centre of the principal work of this concert.
African Sanctus and High I'm…
07 July 2018 · The Octagon Centre
Keneish Dance and Sheffield Oratorio Chorus present an evening of music and contemporary African dance featuring choreographer Keisha Grant’s High I’m…, an African contemporary dance spectacle that takes you through a universe of thoughts, feelings and physical sensation, and David Fanshawe's iconic African Sanctus, which interweaves recordings of African songs and dances with "classical" Western music, choreographed by Keisha Grant and Keneish Dance (www.keneishdance.com).
Haydn Nelson Mass
10 March 2018 · Sheffield Cathedral
Skipton Camerata
Carol Concert 2017
21 December 2017 · St Andrew's Psalter Lane
Our ever popular Christmas carol concert, featuring young Sheffield singers.
The Dream of Gerontius
25 November 2017 · Sheffield Cathedral
This is Elgar's great setting of Newman's poem The Dream of Gerontius.
Britten, Holst & Kodály
08 July 2017 · Sheffield Cathedral
We are firmly in the twentieth century with this concert, featuring Kodály's austere, neo-modal Missa Brevis, Britten's evocative Rejoice in the Lamb, set to Christopher Smart's particularly quirky text, and Gustav Holst's Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, a response to his appreciation of Hindu mystical writings.
Bach St Matthew Passion
01 April 2017 · Ecclesall Parish Church
Due to temporary indisposition, Alan Eost will not be able to conduct this concert.
Carol Concert 2016
22 December 2016 · St. Andrew's Psalter Lane
In this year's Christmas concert we will again be showcasing some of Sheffield's best young singers.
Rutter Gloria and Chilcott Salisbury Vespers
19 November 2016 · Sheffield Cathedral
Bob Chilcott is one of this country's most eminent living composers; his Salisbury Vespers is for multi-divided choirs with virtuoso brass and organ accompaniment.
Britten War Requiem
02 July 2016 · Sheffield Cathedral
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is a work on a large scale, employing a main orchestra, a chamber orchestra, 3 soloists and a boys' choir.
Duruflé Requiem
19 March 2016 · Sheffield Cathedral
Duruflé based his Requiem on psalm chants and used Fauré's Requiem as his model, both structurally and emotionally.
Carol Concert 2015
17 December 2015 · St. Andrew's Psalter Lane
Our annual Christmas carol concert, this year featuring young Sheffield singers.
Bach Magnificat
28 November 2015 · Sheffield Cathedral
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote this setting of the Magnificat (Mary's hymn of praise on learning she would bear the Son of God) for his forces at Leipzig in 1723 but subsequently revised it into the form we know today.
Monteverdi Vespers
27 June 2015 · Sheffield Cathedral
The celebrated Vespers of 1610 will be presented with an excellent array of soloists, some of whom will be familiar from our 2012 performance of Monteverdi's Christmas Vespers.
Rachmaninov Vespers
28 March 2015 · Sheffield Cathedral
Also known as the "All-night Vigil", Rachmaninov's Vespers is a set of 15 anthems for the Vespers and Matins services of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Carol Concert 2014
18 December 2014 · Horizon Methodist Church
A familiar mix of carols, old and new, with readings and audience participation at a new venue: Horizon Methodist Church.
Verdi Requiem
08 November 2014 · Sheffield Cathedral
SOLD OUT
Ceremonies and Psalms
28 June 2014 · Ecclesall Parish Church
John Rutter's moving and celebrated Requiem is combined with a feast of psalm settings, some joyful, some contemplative, by the English composers Sir David Willcocks and Christopher Le Fleming.
Bach St John Passion
29 March 2014 · Ecclesall Parish Church
Bach's timeless masterpiece, The Passion according to St John, is presented in a dramatically enhanced performance with the rising stars of the Skipton Camerata and a sextet of distinguished soloists.
Light Revisited
22 February 2014 · The Cathedral Church of St Marie
The newly formed Chamber Choir makes its debut with Palestrina's ethereal Missa aeterna Christi munera and a selection of Renaissance motets.
Carol Concert 2013
19 December 2013 · Ecclesfield Church
This year's annual mix of traditional and modern carols along with Christmas readings and audience carols.
Handel Dixit Dominus
16 November 2013 · Ecclesall Parish Church
One of Handel's most glittering and irresistible works composed at the age of 22 while in Italy, Dixit Dominus is paired with two of Mozart's most attractive choral works, Coronation Mass and Vespers K339.
Voices in Earth and Heaven
29 June 2013 · Ecclesall Parish Church
Our final concert of the 2012-13 season features two 20th Century works of great beauty.
Light out of Darkness
23 March 2013 · Ecclesall Parish Church
Atmospheric choral works with the theme 'Light out of Darkness' will mark the transition from Winter to Spring in the next concert by the Sheffield Oratorio Chorus.
The New Age
24 November 2012 · Sheffield Cathedral
Start your Christmas celebrations in Venetian style with a concert featuring music by Claudio Monteverdi, including his 'Christmas Vespers'.