Category: Performances

Glad Tidings: Carols Old and New The Esterhazy Singers presented a concert of carols, ranging from familiar classics through to some brand new music, including the chance for the audience to sing along with old favourites. Selections from Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël and other modern carol-settings by Herbert Howells, Kenneth Leighton,…

The Esterhazy Singers presented Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem for their Autumn 2022 concert, as arranged by the composer for choir and two pianos. The choir was accompanied on piano by Jan Rautio and Jennifer Carter and the soloists for the concert were Maria Marshall (Soprano) and Alex Bower-Brown (Baritone). Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, SW1X 9BZ,…

English Songs for a Summer Evening The Esterhazy Singers presented a delightful evening of English pastoral part songs and choral classics in the beautiful surroundings of St. Mary’s Church, Battersea. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth, the programme featured Vaughan-Williams’s much-loved Three Shakespeare Songs and Five Mystical Songs, alongside other choral classics such…

The Esterhazy Singers, under our new Music Director, David Halstead, were delighted to return to live performance with the glorious Nelson Mass – named Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times) by the composer – joined by our orchestra in our first concert since 2020. Alongside Haydn’s ‘greatest’ work, we presented other works on the…

From our homes to yours, The Esterhazy Singers send you our best wishes for the 2020 Christmas season. Several members of the choir have joined together virtually to share with you one of our favourite carols, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which we feel is especially fitting in this most unusual year. Please enjoy…

Handel: what was he thinking of? – a virtual exploration of Messiah Part I Andrea Brown, Jan Rautio and the Esterhazy Singers hosted a virtual celebratory look at this much-loved seasonal work. An opportunity to learn about the historical and musical context and participate in singing well-known choruses. Following our sing-though we shared a virtual…

In May 2020 the choir embarked on a virtual recording project of Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus during the Covid-19 lockdown. So how did it work? There were three main steps: We each individually rehearsed our chosen piece of music, Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart) Once performance-ready, we each made a video recording of us individually singing…

The Esterhazy Singers presented a concert of Carols and Part-Songs, Old and New. The programme featured carols by composers Victoria, Howells and Rutter, amongst others.   The choir returned this year to the splendid surroundings of one of Wren’s more expensive churches, St Lawrence Jewry, badly damaged in the Second World War, but happily restored…

The Esterhazy Singers celebrated the city of Leipzig and its musical legacy. The programme featured composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelsohn and Max Reger, amongst others, who all have strong connections to the city. JS Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, is the longest and most complex of Bach’s 6 Motets, and is a setting for…

The Esterhazy Singers celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing. On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 launched to become the first spaceflight to land two people on the Moon. The Esterhazy Singers commemorated the 50th anniversary with an exciting and varied programme of choral music. Featuring works ancient and modern, the programme reflected composers’…