Archive and History

Welcome to the Wantage Choral Society online archive. We plan to offer a comprehensive online history of the Choral Society: Do you have any WCS concert programmes or newspaper cuttings from years gone by which could fill in some of the gaps?

The links in blue below will lead you to old concert posters, programmes and some pictures.

Please click here to browse our poster archive

Like most choirs, we promote a concert of Christmas music each December, often collaborating with other local musicians: these are not listed below.

2009

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Folk Songs; SCHUBERT: Four Quartets; FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean Racine; Elgar and Sullivan Partsongs
TIPPETT A Child Of Our Time

2008

HUMMEL Mass in B Minor; PALESTRINA Stabat Mater; VARIOUS Motets[poster]
VARIOUS Music for a Summer’s Evening [concert notes] [poster]
ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius [concert notes] [poster]

2007

VARIOUS 20th Century Church Music [poster]
MOZART’s Requiem [poster]

2006

FAURÉ: Requiem; MASSENET: Mélodies; VARIOUS: English Partsongs

2005

G.GABRIELI: Vespers of St. Mark; Vespers by other Italian masters
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In Windsor Forest etc.

2004

HANDEL’S Messiah [review]
JEROME KERN: Showboat (concert version)
MOZART: Coronation Mass etc.

2003

BACH Christmas Oratario
BACH St John Passion
MENDELSSOHN Hymn of Praise
MOZART Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
PURCELL Welcome to All the Pleasures

2002

BRAHMS German Requiem
BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody
GILBERT & SULLIVAN Yeomen of the Guard
VAUGHAN WILLIAM Symphony No 1 “Sea Symphony”

2001

BEETHOVEN Mass in C Major
BRAHMS Nanie
BRAHMS Schicksalslied (Song of destiny)
HANDEL Foundling Hospital Anthem
HANDEL Anthem on the Peace
HAYDN Harmoniemesse
OFFENBACH Orpheus in the Underworld

2000

BACH Mass in B Minor
BACH Cantata 140 – Sleepers Wake
GILBERT & SULLIVAN HMS Pinafore
PERGOLESI Magnificat
VIVALDI Gloria

1999

DVORAK Mass in D
ROSSINI Stabat Mater
STANFORD Songs of the Fleet
VAUGHAN WILLIAM Five Mystical Songs
VAUGHAN WILLIAM In Windsor Forest
BUSH Christmas Cantata

1998

BACH St Matthew Passion
FLANDERS/HOROWITZ Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
GILBERT & SULLIVAN Trial By Jury
HAYDN The Seasons(full)

1997

HANDEL Messiah
HANDEL Judas Maccabaeus
SLADE Salad Days
VAUGHAN WILLIAM Fantasia on Christmas Carols

1996

HAYDN Nelson Mass
MENDELSSOHN Elijah
PUCCINI Messa Di Gloria
PURCELL Come Ye Sons of Art

1995

ELGAR As Torrents in Summer
FAURE Requiem
FAURE Cantique de Jean Racine
FAURE Pavane
HANDEL Messiah
MOZART Coronation Mass
ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle

1994

GIBBS The Highwayman
ELGAR Songs from the Bavarian Highlands
MOZART Coronation Mass
BACH Cantata 140 – Sleepers Wake
BACH Cantata 161 – Come Redeemer
HANDEL The King shall Rejoice
HAYDN Creation

1993

BACH Lobet den Herrn
BACH – Christmas Oratorio excerpts
BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasia
ELGAR Dream of Gerontius
HANDEL Zadok the Priest
PARRY Blest Pair of Sirens

1992

BACH St John Passion
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Death of Minnehaha
MOZART Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
MOZART Requiem
STANFORD The Revenge

1991

BRAHMS German Requiem
BRUCKNER Motets
FAURE Cantique de Jean Racine
GODDARD At the Year’s Spring
PURCELL Five Songs
SCHUBERT Mass in Ab

1990

BRITTEN A Hymn to the Virgin
DIACK Nursery Rhymes
HANDEL Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
HAYDN St Cecelia Mass
HOROWITZ Summer Sunday
MENDELSSOHN Elijah

1989

BACH Magnificat in D
BERLIOZ Te Deum
BRUCKNER Locus Iste (Twice)
HANDEL Zadok the Priest
SCHUTZ The Christmas Story
SPOFORTH Hail Smiling Morn (Mayors Concert)
STANFORD Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Psalm 150
VERDI Requiem
WAGNER Parsifal Act I
WOOD O Thou, the Central Orb

1988

BRAHMS Liebeslieder Waltzes
BUSH Christmas Cantata
FINZI In Terra Pax
HANDEL Chandos Anthem No 9
KODALY The Music Makers (An Ode)
MOZART Mass in C Minor
SEIBER 3 Yugoslav Folk Songs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Christmas Carols

1987

BEETHOVEN Mass in D (Missa Solemnis)
BYRD Heyho to the Greenwood Tree
BYRD Would you know my Celia’s Charms
CARTER Two for the price of one
DURUFLE Requiem
FAURE Cantique de Jean Racine
HOLST I Love my Love
MORLEY Fire, Fire
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Turtle Dove

1986

BACH Christmas Oratorio
BRITTEN Hymn to St Cecilia
BRUCKNER Mass in E Minor
BRUCKNER Ecce Sacerdos – Motet
FLANDERS/HOROWITZ Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
GENEE Italian Salad
HAMMERSLEY Magnificat

1985

ELGAR As Torrents in Summer
ELGAR Feasting I watch
ELGAR My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land
HANDEL Utrecht Te Deum
PERGOLESI Magnificat
STANFORD The Blue Bird
SULLIVAN The Long Day Closes
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oxford Elegy
VERDI Requiem
VIVALDI Gloria

1984

BACH Mass in B Minor
HANDEL Messiah
TOCH Geographical Fugue
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 5 English Folk Songs

1983

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Choral)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
DVORAK Te Deum
DVORAK Mass in D
DYSON Three Songs of Courage
DYSON The Seekers and Reveille
FAURE Requiem
MENDELSSOHN Elijah

1982

BACH St Matthew Passion
BRITTEN Gloriana Dances
BRITTEN Ceremony of Carols
MOZART Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
ELGAR As Torrents in Summer
HANDEL Messiah
PURCELL Welcome to All the Pleasures
ROWLEY Sailors Garland

1981

PYKE Time and Tide
ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle
SEIBER 3 Hungarian Folk Songs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 1 “Sea Symphony”
MOERAN Spring, The Sweet Spring
MOERAN Battle of Jericho
MOERAN Griping Griefs
MOERAN Little David

1980

GIBBS The Highwayman
BACH Singet den Herrn
BACH Das ist meine freude
BRAHMS Liebeslieder Waltzes
HANDEL Samson
HANDEL Israel in Egypt
PALESTRINA Stabat Mater

1979

BRAHMS German Requiem
HANDEL Messiah
HAYDN Nelson Mass
PURCELL Te Deum in C
VERDI Requiem

1978

BACH Peasant Cantata
BRITTEN Rejoice in the Lamb
GERMAN Merry England
HANDEL Alexander’s Feast
MOZART Mass in C Minor

1977

BACH Cantata 140 – Sleepers Wake
FAURE Requiem
HANDEL Zadok the Priest
MENDELSSOHN Elijah
PARRY I Was Glad

1976

BIZET Carmen
HAYDN Creation

1975

HANDEL 9th Chandos Anthem
MONTEVERDI Beatus Vir
PERGOLESI Magnificat
ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle
VIVALDI Gloria

1974

BACH St Matthew Passion
BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Mortes
HANDEL The King Shall Rejoice
MOZART Requiem

1973

BACH St Matthew Passion
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
MENDELSSOHN Elijah

1972

BACH St Matthew Passion
FAURE Requiem
HANDEL Samson
VIVALDI Gloria

1971

BACH St Matthew Passion
FAURE Requiem
VIVALDI Gloria

1970

BACH Christmas Oratorio
HANDEL Acis & Galatea

1967

HANDEL Israel in Egypt

1966

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 1 “Sea Symphony”

1965

HANDEL Messiah

1964

BALFE Bohemian Girl
HAYDN The Seasons(part)
VIVALDI Gloria
WEBER Jubilee Cantata

1962

KODALY Matia Pictures
MOERAN Griping Griefs
MOERAN Little David
MOERAN Spring, The Sweet Spring
MOERAN Battle of Jericho
STANFORD Songs of the Fleet
VERDI Requiem

1961

BRAHMS German Requiem
HANDEL Judas Maccabaeus

1960

CONSTANT LAMBERT Rio Grande
MENDELSSOHN Hymn of Praise

1959

FAURE Requiem

1958

BACH Mass in B Minor
HANDEL Acis & Galatea

1957

HANDEL Messiah

1956

BACH Jesu Priceless Treasure
BRAHMS Liebeslieder Waltzes
MOZART Requiem
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS In Windsor Forest

1955

BACH St Matthew Passion

1954

GERMAN Tom Jones
MENDELSSOHN Elijah

1953

BACH Christmas Oratorio

1952

BORODIN Prince Igor Choral Dances
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast

1951

GERMAN Merry England
HAYDN Creation

1950

HANDEL Messiah
Unknown
DUNHILL Early One Morning