Come & Sing Day 2023 :: Verdi

Come & Sing Day 2023 :: Verdi

  … Past Come and Sing Day Saturday 30th April 2022 ‘Scenes from Elijah’ by Mendelssohn. We featured greatest choruses from this wonderful work, including most of the central part of the story. We were lucky to have secured the services of James...
Summer Concert Reviews 18th June 2022

Summer Concert Reviews 18th June 2022

Although a little depleted in numbers, the Leicester Bach Choir were in fine voice at their Summer concert in St James the Greater on Saturday evening. The programme was varied and featured unusual combinations of organ, harp and percussion. An intricate and intimate...
Summer Concert Review 18th June 2022

Summer Concert Review 18th June 2022

There is nothing in Leicester like the Bach Choir. For over 90 years, they have been putting on wonderful concerts, singing the music they like. And the music they like, just happens to include the most difficult pieces in the classical repertoire. In this concert we...
Review :: De Montfort Hall – Elgar: Dream of Gerontius

Review :: De Montfort Hall – Elgar: Dream of Gerontius

In a major musical event for Leicester, the Bardi’s 30th Anniversary Season opened with a landmark performance of Edward Elgar’s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius. For the first time Leicester Philharmonic Choir, Leicester Bach Choir and Leicestershire Chorale joined...
Parry: Songs of Farewell :: An Evening to Treasure

Parry: Songs of Farewell :: An Evening to Treasure

Conductor: Richard Laing Organist: Ivan Linford Dvořák: Mass in D Major :: The Leicester Bach Choir’s summer concert was notable for two things in particular: the imaginative pairing of Parry’s Songs of Farewell with Dvorak’s Mass in D major, and the sheer quality of...