Category: Performances

  The Esterhazy singers performed their highly popular Christmas Concert at St Andrew’s, Holborn on Tuesday 13th December, under the baton of their new Music Director, Andrea Brown, who stepped in at short notice. The programme included Herbert Howells’ “Here is the Little Door”, and readings by Margaret Jowett, as well as 2 organ solos…

The Esterhazy Singers transported their audience to seventeenth-century Venice on 25 April 2016, when they were joined by the London Youth Choir for an extraordinary rendition of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in the City Temple. Period instrument ensemble The Little Baroque Company added the thrill of occasion with their sackbuts, cornets and other antique instruments,…

The Esterhazy Singers performed their highly popular Christmas concert at St Andrew Holborn on Thursday 10 December 2015. The programme included James Whitbourn’s playful Missa Carolae alongside popular Christmas choral music and readings by the talented Margaret Jowett. From ‘Ding, dong merrily on high’ to ‘The twelve days of Christmas’, this performance set spirits soaring…

The Esterhazy Singers, performed Joseph Haydn’s sublime Missa Cellensis in the beautiful surroundings of St Lawrence Jewry on Tuesday 27 October 2015. Written for the famous pilgrimage church or Mariazell in Styria, this festive mass has always been one of Haydn’s most popular works. The Esterhazy Singers, accompanied by Catherine Ennis (organ) performed the mass…

One hundred years after its first performance, the Esterhazy Singers celebrated the centenary of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil with a special performance of the much-loved work in the beautiful surroundings of St Andrew’s Church in Holborn. This masterpiece was sung in the original language with soloists from the choir. Arguably one of the finest works ever…

On St Nicholas Day, 6th December 2014, the choir performed Britten’s dramatic St Nicolas cantata and Haydn’s sublime Missa Sancti Nicolai in the beautiful surroundings of St Giles, Cripplegate – the parish church in the heart of the Barbican. The concert featured outstanding soloists, including the talented tenor Greg Tassell in the cantata’s title role,…

On 6th June 2014, the choir performed Handel’s Dixit Dominus in a programme of baroque choral music by Handel and Purcell. They were joined by outstanding young vocal soloists Emily Owen & Robyn Donnelly (soprano), Katie Coventry (mezzo), Robbie Jacobs (tenor) and David Le Prevost (Bass) and players from the superb Little Baroque Company performing…

Secretive and seductive religion, love and heart break were the themes explored in 17th century music, seen by many as the time in which Choral music was born. In Venice, also referred to as Serenissima, composers such as Monteverdi, Schutz and Gabrielli were making music popular to masses by bringing it out of the church.…

On 19th December 2013, the Choir started the Christmas celebrations with a magical concert of carols accompanied by traditional sounds of Christmas from CityBrass and balanced with readings by Margaret Jowett. The programme covered many old favourites from carol singing traditions together with extracts from Handel’s glorious work, Messiah. The choir joined with CityBrass to…

On 5th November 2013, the choir performed a programme which included the rhythmically electric Haydn ‘Theresienmesse’ interspersed with motets between the movements. The motets provided a reflection on the mass texts they followed and included gems from Bruckner, John IV and Rheinberger. Natalie Johnson-Hyde (Soprano), Judy Brown (Mezzo), John Findon (Tenor) and David Ireland (Bass)…