Concerts
Our next concert
Songs of the Baltic Sea
Music by Miškinis, Dubra, Ešenvalds, Gòrecki
Tuesday 23 August, 8pm
Old Saint Paul's Church, Edinburgh
Brahms German Requiem
with Scottish Chamber Choir, Meadows Chamber Orchestra
Saturday 12 November 2022, 7:45pm
St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road
Reviews
Translated Daughters: 17 Nov 2012
10th Anniversary Concert: 3 Dec 2011
Stabat Mater: 11 June 2011
Music to Hear: 16 March 2009
Salm an Fhearainn: 15 June 2009
"The zenith occurs in the final,
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Songs of the Baltic Sea
Music by Miškinis, Dubra, Ešenvalds, Gòrecki
Conducted by Rory Wilson
18 June 2022
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Greater Love
Allegri, Tavener, Mealor, Tallis, MacMillan, Pärt and others
Conducted by Rory Wilson
2 April 2022
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Rosa Sine Spina
Carols at Canongate: Chilcott, Britten, Poulenc and various women composers.
Conducted by Frikki Walker
11 December 2021
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
On St Andrew's Day
Music by Walton, MacMillan, Boyle, Crecquillon, Hearne, Park, Leighton, Johnston
30 November 2019
Old St Paul's Church, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh
How can I Keep from Singing
Madrigals, songs and sonnets by Shearing, Finzi, Delius, Panufnik, Quartel
15 June 2019
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Penitence and Praise
A musical journey through Holy Week
Music by Rheinberger, Beach, Gibbons, Bruckner, MacDowall, Mealor, Lotti, Taverner, Howells
30 March 2019
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Into the Light
Music by Park, Rutter, Poulenc, Wood, Tallis, Rheinberger, Jackson, Whitacre
1 December 2018
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Northscapes
Music by Tavener, Sigurbjörnsson, MacMillan, Thorvaldsdottir, Vasks, Gjeilo
16 June 2018
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Speak to us of children
Music by Andrzej Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik, Ronald Stevenson, Savourna Stevenson, Tom Cunningham
24 March 2018
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Cantate Domino
J. S. Bach: Singet den Herrn
plus music by Praetorius, Monteverdi, Pachelbel, Tomkins, Sweelinck, Peebles.
25 November 2017
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Chansons des Fleurs
Lauridsen: Chansons des Roses
Britten: Five Flower Songs
Macmillan: So Deep
17 June 2017
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Lobet den Herrn
Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Music by Arvo Pärt and Sven-David Sandström.
11 March 2017
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
A Boy was Born
Jonathan Dove: Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars
Judith Weir: Psalm 148
Benjamin Britten: A Boy was Born
Paul Spicer: Glory be to God for Dappled Things
19 November 2016
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Desire of Ancient Things
Eben: Desire of Ancient Things
Vaughan Williams: 5 English Folk Songs
Debussy arr. Orringe: La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Saint-Saens: Calme de Nuit
Andriessen: Donne Moi Ma Belle Maitresse
Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
arr. Johnston: Loch Lomond
Orringe: La Belle Inconnue
Berkeley: Farewell
By the Dawn's Early Light
Copland: In the beginning
Lauridsen: Lux aeterna
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
12 March 2016
Old Saint Paul's Church, Edinburgh
Bruckner and Stravinsky
Bruckner: Mass in E minor
Stravinsky: Mass
28 November 2015
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
From the Bavarian Highlands
Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands
Fauré: Les Djinns
Schubert" Gott ist mein Hirt
Schubert: Standchen
Dvorak: Misto Klekani
Howells: In youth is pleasure
Pearsall: Lay a Garland
13 June 2015
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Lux Aeterna
Howells: Requiem
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn
Purcell: Hear my Prayer
Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Yelland: There is a Field
28 March 2015
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Advance Democracy
Britten: Advance Democracy
Martin: Mass for Double Choir
MacMillan: Sun Stone from Cantos Sagrados
Ireland: Greater love hath no man
plus songs by Smyth, Weill, Mitchell
22nd November 2014
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Rachmaninov "All Night Vigil"
Old St Paul's Church, Edinburgh
22nd August 2014
"Hot Chocolate at 10"
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
14th June 2014
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
With The Rose Street Ensemble
Esti Dal
Works by Kodály, Bartók, Janáček
29th March 2014
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
"Hot Chocolate at 10"
Music by Whitacre, Tippet, Vasks and Orringe
Old Saint Paul's Church, Edinburgh
23rd August 2013
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
15th June 2013
With The Rose Street Ensemble
Plainscapes
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
16th March 2013
Vasks: Plainscapes
Barber: God's Grandeur
Whitacre: Water Night
Orringe: Prelude, Gigue and Corale
Tippett: Five Spirtuals
Translated Daughters
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
17th November 2012
MacMillan: Strathclyde Motets
Bax: Mater ora filium
Britten: Hymn to St Cecelia
Tavener: Song for Athene
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
16th June 2012
In the Midst of Life
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
17th March 2012
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Brahms: Warum ist der Licht gegeben?
Whitacre: When David Heard
Mendelssohn: Ave Maria, Mitten wir im Leben sind
Tenth Anniversary Concert
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
3rd December 2011
Daan Manneke: Topos
Gardner: Cantantibus Organis
Morten Lauridsen: Les Chansons Des Roses
Elliott Carter: Musicians wrestle everywhere
Festival Fringe: "Hot Chocolate at 10"
Old Saint Paul's Church, Edinburgh
26th August 2011
Works by Faure, Saint-Saens, Debussy and Szymanowski
Dvorák Stabat Mater
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
11th June 2011
The Flight of Song
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
12th March 2011
John Bevan Baker: Songs of Courtship
Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans
Howard Skempton: The Flight of Song
Karol Szymanowski: Six Kurpie Songs
Seven Last Words from the Cross
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
11th December 2010
MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross
Featuring The Rose Street Ensemble
Byrd: Beati mundo corde, Miserere mihi Domine
In The Beginning
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
12th June 2010
Aaron Copland: In The Beginning
Benjamin Britten: A.M.D.G. Ad majorem Dei gloriam
Schütz: Singet dem Herrn ein neus Lied, Das ist mir Lieb
Mezzo soprano: Judith Gardner Jones
Tristis Est Anima Mea
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
20th March 2010
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Schütz: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnugnen
Pärt: Magnificat Antiphons
Tallis: Salvator Mundi
Cathédrales Englouties
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
14th November 2009
Leighton: Mass for Double Choir
Ligeti: Night and Morning
Whitacre: Sleep
Debussy: Preludes
Elgar: Four Part Songs op. 53
Salm an Fhearainn
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
13th June 2009
William Sweeney: Psalm of the Land
Robert Carver: O Bone Jesu
James MacMillan: Christus vincit, Tremunt videntes angeli
Julian Anderson: Four American Choruses
Music to Hear
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
14th March 2009
Britten: Five Flower Songs
Elgar: Four Unaccompanied Part Songs
Frank Martin: Songs of Ariel
Jason Orringe: Music to Hear
Vaughan Williams: Five English Folk Songs
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Les Noces
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
22nd November 2008
Stravinsky: Les Noces
Brahms: Liebesliederwaltzer
Britten: Choral Dances
Rachmaninov Vespers
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
7th June 2008
Rachmaninov: Vespers
Songs of farewell
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
8th March 2008
Parry: Songs of Farewell
J. S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude
Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Friede auf Erden
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
1st December 2007
Poulenc: Four Christmas Motets
Schoenberg: Friede Auf Erden
Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir
Britten: Chorale
La Figure Humaine
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
9th June 2007
Francis Poulenc: Figure humaine
Veljo Tormis: Jaanilaulud
Ken Johnston: In Flanders Field
William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May
Thomas Tomkins: Too much I one lamented
Thomas Weelkes: Hark, all ye lovely saints
John Wilbye: Draw on, sweet night
Camille Saint-Saëns: Calme des nuits
Gabriel Fauré: Madrigal
Lamentations
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
17th March 2007
Alfred Schnittke: Choir Concerto
Thomas Tallis: Motets
Missa Ita Est
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
25th November 2006
Bruckner: E Minor Mass, Inveni David, Ave Maria, Virga Jesse, Ecce Sacerdos
Stravinsky: Mass for Chorus and Wind Instruments
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
10th June 2006
Manneke: Topos
Bach: Komm Jesu Komm
Mendelssohn: 4 sacred songs
Schütz: Wie Lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen
Sacred and Profane
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
18th March 2006
Britten: Sacred and Profane
Tippett: Spirituals from a Child of our Time
Howells: Requiem
Orringe: Liebeslieder
Monteverdi Vespers
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
26th November 2005
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Pezzi Sacri
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
11th June 2005
Rossini: Petite messe solennelle
Verdi: Te Deum
Heaven Haven
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
5th March 2005
Britten: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Chorale on an Old French Carol
Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde for Male Chorus and 4 Horns
Brahms: Four Songs, op. 17 for Women's Voices, 2 Horns and Harp
Warum ist der Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen Geistliches Lied
An Die Musik
St Michael & All Saints Church, Edinburgh
27th November 2004
Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia
Purcell: Welcome to All the Pleasures
Orringe: Liebeslieder
Carter: Musicians Wrestle Everywhere, Heart Not so Heavy
Elgar: Early Part Songs
Gardner: Cantantibus Organis
Le Cours d'Amour
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
19th June 2004
Britten: The Ballad of Little Musgrave
Debussy: Chanson de Charles d'Orléans
Bartok: Folksongs
Fauré: Madrigal
Monteverdi: Madrigals
Johnston: Loch Lomond
Nulla Rosa Sine Spinis
St. Michael and All Saints Church, Edinburgh
6th March 2004
Morten Lauridsen: Chanson des Roses
Arvo Pärt: Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen
Handel: Extracts from Theodora
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O lord, Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei! I was glad
Topos
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
15th November 2003
Daan Manneke: Topos
Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Andriessen: Donne Moi