Felicitas Chamber Choir

Saturday 6th December 2025
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey

Christmas Choral Contrasts

Organ/piano: Roger Bluff

Settings of O magnum mysterium, Quem vidistis, Videntes stellam & Hodie Christus natus est - Palestrina & Poulenc
The Shepherds' Farewell - Berlioz
Run, shepherds - Farrington
Coventry Carol - Trad.
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child - Leighton
Ave Generosa - Hildegard von Bingen & Ola Gjeilo
Adam lay ybounden - Boris Ord & Simon Winters
The holly & the ivy - Reginald Jacques & June Nixon
In dulci jubilo - Pearsall & Roderick Elms
Hodie Christus natus est - Roger Bluff

Saturday 28th June 2025
St john's Church
Loughton

There is sweet music

Five Flower Songs - Britten
Five childhood lyrics - Rutter
There is sweet music - Elgar
O mistress mine - Murrill
Silence and music - Vaughan Williams
The Bluebird - Stanford
Haec dies - Byrd
Magnificat from Third 'Great' Service - Tomkins
Ave maris stella - MacMillan
Faire is the heaven; Bring us, O Lord God - Harris

Saturday 22nd March 2025
St john's Church
Epping

Gloria!

Organ: Roger Bluff
with brass ensemble

Lamentations I - Tallis
Five Spirituals from Child of our time - Tippett
Hymn to St Cecilia - Britten
Funeral Sentences - Purcell
Gloria - Rutter

Saturday 7th December 2024
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey

For unto us... Messiah & more!

Messiah (Choruses from Part 1) - Handel
Make we joy - Anon
Ave Maria & Os justi - Bruckner
My Lord has come & Christ is the morning star - Will Todd
Hodie - James Whitbourn
De Vergine Maria - Carl Rütti
Lully, lulla, lullay & Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - Phillip Stopford
Sing lullaby & Here is the little door - Howells
Gabriel's message Trad. arr. Rathbone

Saturday 29th June 2024
St John's Church
Epping

Music in Essex

Mass in G minor - Vaugham Williams
Laudibus in sanctis - William Byrd
Sanctus from Missa Puer natus est - Thomas Tallis
Love is enough - Gustav Holst
Draw on sweet night & Flora gave me fairest flowers - John Wilbye
I it am - Geoffrey Winters
Bushes and Briars - Vaughan Williams
As she fills his dreams - Pam Slatter
Peace (My soul, there is a country) - John Garner
Magnificat - Jonathan Rathbone
My song (This song of mine) - Alan Bullard
O sing joyfully - Simon Winters

Saturday 16th March 2024
St Mary's Church
Woodford

Organ: Roger Bluff

Motet: Fürchte dich nicht – J.S. Bach
Missa Brevis – Zoltán Kodály
Missa pro defunctis – Duarte Lobo
Seek him that maketh the seven stars – Jonathan Dove

Saturday 9th December 2023
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey
Essex

Organ: Roger Bluff

Magnificat a 12 – Andrea Gabrieli
Magnificat I a 8 – Claudio Monteverdi
Deutches Magnificat (1671) – Heinrich Schütz
This have I done for my true love – Gustav Holst
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – John Gardner
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – Philip Stopford
Three Carols – Carl Rütti
Nova! Nova! – Iain Farrington
In the stillness – Sally Beamish
Noel: Verbum caro factum est – Tamsin Jones

Saturday 24th June 2023
St Mary's Church
South Woodford
London

Organ: David Winters

Ubi caritas – Duruflé, Mealor & Gjeilo
Northern Lights – Gjeilo
Vidi speciosam – Will Todd
Set me as a seal – Walton
My beloved spake – Hadley & Purcell
Tota pulchra es – Duruflé
Missa ego flos campi – Padilla
If ye love me – Tallis
Ständchen – Schubert
A boy and a girl – Whitacre
Can she excuse my wrongs – Dowland
I love, alas, I love thee – Morley
Come away, sweet love – Greaves
If music be the food of love – Purcell

Saturday 11th March 2023
St John's Church
Epping
Essex

Organ: Roger Bluff

Mass for five voices – William Byrd
Komm, Jesu, komm – J.S. Bach
Messe solenelle – Jean Langlais
Crucifixus a 16 – Antonio Caldara

Saturday 3rd December 2022
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey
Essex

Felicitas explored music appropriate for the Christmas season from around the world. As we moved from country to country, we covered a variety of different styles from 16th century right up to the present day. As we 'leapt' from Palestrina to Panufnik, from Rutter to Rathbone, we took you on a magical tour of Christmas from around the world.

Saturday 25th June 2022
The Abbey Church
Waltham Abbey
Essex

Sacred

Ave Maria, mater Dei – Cornysh
Kyrie from Missa Papae Marcelli – Palestrina
Loquebantur variis linguis – Tallis
Jubilate Deo – Gabrieli
Ave Maria – Bruckner
Bogoroditsye Dyevo – Rachmaninov
Salve Regina – Poulenc
Justorum animae – Stanford
Coelos ascendit hodie – Stanford
Beati quorum via – Stanford
O sing joyfully – Batten & Simon Winters
Christus est stella – Will Todd

Secular

April is in my mistress’ face – Morley
Sweet Suffolk owl – Vautor
Sea Sorrow – arr. Bantock
Anything goes & Let's do it – Cole Porter
Lullaby of Birdland – Shearing
Sleep – Whitacre
Waltzing Matilda – arr. Rathbone

Saturday 26th March 2022
St John's Church
Epping
Essex

Organ: Roger Bluff

Messe Solennelle – Vierne
Jesu, meine Freude – J.S. Bach
Missa Brevis – Jonathan Dove
O Lord God of Hosts & I was glad – Henry Purcell