University Choir is a chorus of around 250 voices drawn from students
and staff of the University as well as the general public from the surrounding
area. Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings during term and the choir usually
gives three concerts in each academic year. Concert programmes are essentially
from later Baroque to 20th century focusing
on large scale repertoire usually with orchestra - University Orchestra
or an outside professional orchestra - recently English Northern Philharmonia
(the Orchestra of Opera North), Northern Sinfonia and Yorkshire
Baroque Soloists.
Bach
Christmas Oratorio
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Mass in C
Berlioz
Te Deum
Brahms Requiem
Bruckner Motets
Britten
War Requiem
Dvorak Mass
in D
Elgar
Dream of Gerontius
Coronation Ode
Finzi
Intimations of Immortality
Handel Messiah
Coronation Anthems
Haydn
Creation
Seasons
Harmoniemesse
Schopfungsmesse
Stabat Mater
Theresienmesse
Mendelssohn Elijah
Mozart Mass
in C Minor
Requiem
Puccini
Messa di Gloria
Rossini
Petite messe solenelle
Verdi
Requiem
Four sacred pieces
Walton Belshazzar's
Feast
Full details of these concerts are available on the Concert Series
welcome page.
This page is maintained by Peter Seymour. Last updated September 2003.