Author: citysounduk

10th Birthday Concert

Including some of our favourites performed over the last 10 years:

    CitySound Voices
    Verdi: Nabucco – Va, pensiero
    Bruckner: Locus iste
    Viadana: Exultate justi
    KES Senior Singers
    Vaughan Williams: O taste and see
    KES 24
    Vautor: Sweet Suffolk Owl
    Morley: I love, alas, I love thee
    CitySound Voices
    Stopford: Do no be afraid
    Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
    Lauridsen: Sure on this shining night
    INTERVAL
    CitySound Voices
    Shenandoah
    Billy Joel: The longest time
    KES Senior Singers
    Danoff, Nivert and Denver arr. Cassey: Take me home, country roads
    Cronin arr. Gilpin: Can’t fight this feeling
    The Greatest Showman: This is me
    KES 24
    Dolly Parton arr. Mark Brymer: Jolene
    Axel, Vaccarino and Campbell arr. Langford: Say something
    Germotta and Tucker arr. Huff: Hold my hand
    CitySound Voices
    Africa
    Les Misérables medley

    Christmas Fantasia at St Stephen’s 2022

    Join CitySound Voices for a Christmas Concert in St Stephen’s Church, Lansdown, Bath on Saturday 17th December at 7.30 for Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams, jazz arrangements of carols by Will Todd and other festive music familiar and less familiar.
    This year the choir will be accompanied by members of the Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, on the piano by Peter French along with soloist baritone, Alexander Learmonth. All conducted by our new Musical Director, Will Stevens.
    CItySound Voices will also be joined by The Harmonics all-female combo from Corsham.

    Programme to include:

    • Tavener: O, do not move
    • Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye Dyevo
    • Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
    • Traditional arr. Wilcocks: Quelle est cette odeur agreable?
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols 
    • INTERVAL 
    • Todd: Personet hodie
    • Todd: In the bleak midwinter
    • Todd: We three Kings
    • Traditional arr. Vaughan Williams: O little town of Bethlehem
    • Mendelssohn: Hark! The herald-angels sing

    Christmas 2021 with CitySound Voices

    All – O come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade Arr, Willcocks)

    CitySound Voices & Katy Thomson – On Christmas Night (Bob Chilcott)

    The Harmonics – Do You Hear What I Hear
    – Jazzy Jingle Bell Rock

    CitySound Voices & Katy Thomson – O Holy Night

    INTERVAL

    CitySound Voices – The Snow (Edwatd Elgar)
    – The Holly And The Ivy (Ola Gjeilo)
    – Deck The Hall (Trad. Arr. Willcocks)
    – Jingle Bells (J Pierpont Arr. Willcocks)
    – The Twelve Days Of Christmas (Trad. Arr. Rutter)

    The Harmonics – It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
    – Sleigh Ride
    – Christmas Lullaby

    Katy Thomson – Nella Fantasia
    – A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehman)
    – The Twelve Days After Christmas (Frederick Silver)

    All – Hark! the herald angels sing

    CitySound Voices – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Martin & Blane Arr. Peter Gritton)

    Attended by Mayor of Bath, Councillor June Player and MP for Bath, Wera Hobhouse.
    Soloist Katy Thomson and CSV Director of Music Jon Rawles with MP for Bath, Wera Hobhouse.

    CitySound at Bruton, November 2019

    Programme for Bruton:

    O How Glorious is the Kingdom – Philip Stopford
    Ave Verum Corpus – W.A.Mozart
    Panis Angelicus – Cesar Franck
    Anvil Chorus – Giuseppe Verdi
    Tantum Ergo – Anton Bruckner
    Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Faure
    Organ solo – Vesper Voluntaries op. 11 – Edward Elgar
    played by Peter French
    Seal Lullaby – Eric Whitacre
    A Million Dreams – Pasek, Paul and MacHuff
    Your Song – Elton John
    The Snow – Edward Elgar
    Goodnight Sweetheart – Hudson, Carter and Shaw

    CitySound at Frome Festival 2019

    Ruth McKibbin (Soprano) & Peter French (Piano)

    Richard Wagner – Dich, teure Halle from Tannhäuser

    CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

    Philip Stopford – Jubilate

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Sicut cervus

    Anton Bruckner – Locus iste

    Krystl Ride (Soprano), Ruth McKibbin (Soprano), Philip Styles (Tenor) & Peter French (Piano)

    W A Mozart – Quoniam tu solus from Mass in C Minor, K.427

    CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

    Morten Lauridsen – Sure on This Shining night

    Edward Elgar – The Snow

    Traditional, arr. Stephen Leek – Morning Tide

    ROS Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

    ABBA – Super trouper

    ROS Voices & CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

    Carly Simon – Let the River run