Getting to know Tübingen

After an evening singing and socialising with our friends from Semiseria Chor, we've spent our first full day in Tübingen relaxing and exploring this delightfully pretty city.

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Tübingen tour preview

A look ahead to our first ever overseas tour: we're off to Tübingen, Durham's twin city in Germany, where we'll be singing music from our Sing unto the Lord programme.

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Programme note: Songs of Farewell

This recital focuses intensely on absence, loss and the afterlife, through richly scored masterpieces for multi-voice choir from the baroque and the early twentieth century. 

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Parry’s Songs of Farewell

A look at Parry's Songs of Farewell: intimate reflections on the end of life that are very different from his better-known pieces for grand public occasions.

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Profile: Assistant Conductor, Francesca Massey

Continuing our series blog posts that look beyond the programme biographies, we talked to our Assistant Musical Director Francesca Massey about her musical career and the music she's chosen for our 'Songs of Farewell' concert.

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Sackbuts and cornetts

When Monteverdi wrote his 1610 Vespers, the instruments most commonly used in churches, after the organ, were sackbuts and cornetts, and these instruments add  their very distinctive flavour to a…

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Programme note: The Cloths of Heaven

The programme note by our Musical Director, Julian Wright, for our summer concert "The Cloths of Heaven", on 24 June 2017 at St Brandon's Church, Brancepeth.  Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece, Hymn…

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