by BCS Admin | Jun 2, 2019 | Reviews
Those who attended Bury Choral Society’s performance of Handel’s rarely sung oratorio Judas Maccabaeus at All Saints Church, Stand, enjoyed a real treat. The choir of about sixty (a few more tenors would be helpful), with good diction, and most attentive to the...
by BCS Admin | May 12, 2019 | Reviews
Performed: 16th March 2019 Following the 20th Century English music of Bury Choral Society’s concert commemorating the ending of the First World War and the joyful bagatelle of the Christmas Festivities, the choir demonstrated their versatility with a concert of...
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...
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