by BCS Admin | Jan 27, 2019 | Reviews
Amidst all the tawdry tat which bedevils so much of the Christmas season there are one or two gems to be found. One such was at Bury’s United Reformed Church, where the Bury Choral Society gave their Christmas concert. And what a gem it was! There were too many to...
by BCS Admin | Jan 27, 2019 | Reviews
For their first concert of the season at Bury Parish Church, Bury Choral Society chose to mark the centenary of the signing of the armistice of the Great War with a very carefully and appropriately assembled programme. Music was interspersed with poetry, narrative and...
by BCS Admin | Sep 24, 2018 | Reviews
This season’s final concert by Bury Choral Society, held in Bury Parish Church on 12 May, comprised two sacred works from composers usually associated with opera. Puccini’s Messa di Gloria was composed when he was only 22 as a graduation piece, was a resounding...
by BCS Admin | Apr 19, 2018 | Reviews
A Batty Night at the Operetta! A curious title for what was, in fact, a semi-staged performance of the younger Johann Strauss’s scintillating operetta, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) but with added entertainment performed by Bury Choral Society at Stand Parish Church on...
by BCS Admin | Dec 12, 2017 | Reviews
For this reviewer, Bury Choral Society’s Christmas concert is an event much looked forward to, as it is invariably a source of many good, seasonal things musical. This year’s was as good as, if not better than, ever. Musical Director Juan Ortuno’s cheerful exuberance...
by BCS Admin | Oct 21, 2017 | Reviews
This is a popular but difficult work for choirs and orchestra alike requiring large forces and for singers a dexterity of vocal line and diction to master the Germanic Latin text of much of the work. A large audience at the Royal Northern College of Music gave...
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