Fauré & Duruflé Requiem On 17th May I was privileged to see and hear the Bury Choral Society concert at Stand Church. Having heard the Fauré and Duruflé requiems only days before at Manchester Cathedral, I must admit that I ... 17 May 2014
Opera Views on opera divide into polar opposites. Some consider it the highest musical art form, others that an opera is four good tunes set in two-and-a-half hours of tedium. If you take the latter view, B... 15 Feb 2014
Handel’s Messiah Report of Bury Choral Society’s performance of Handel’s Messiah Bury Parish Church, Tuesday 19 November 2013 for ‘Bury Times’ Bury Choral Society love singing Handel, and Handel seems to love them bac... 19 Nov 2013
Our 175th Anniversary Concert The 175th Anniversary Concert was a performance to celebrate the achievements of Bury Choral Society over so many years, and it certainly did. It was also a sad evening because this was the last conce... 12 May 2013
May Concert 2012 STAND Parish Church provided the setting for the final concert of Bury Choral Society’s season, an evening with an accessible programme of well-‐known works. Mozart’s Misericordias Domini, Vivaldi’s ... 8 May 2012
A Night at the Opera A capacity audience was treated to a most refreshing and entertaining evening at the Met on Saturday 11 February. The programme, billed as A Night at the Opera, included items for Soprano and Tenor so... 11 Feb 2012
May Concert 2011 Bury Choral Society’s final concert of the season in All Saints Church, Stand, was an enticing mix of rarely heard Vivaldi and Donizetti coupled with the almost totemic Mozart’s requiem. Under the ins... 19 May 2011
Winter Concert VIRTUALLY every seat in St Peter’s Church was taken for Bury Choral Society’s winter concert on February 20. This year’s winter aliments seem not to have depleted the choir as much as in other years, ... 20 Feb 2011
Brahms Evening A respectably numbered audience braved wintry weather to attend Bury Choral society’s first concert of the season at the Bury Grammar School Boys on the first Saturday of December. The society had joi... 8 Dec 2010
Dvorak and Elgar An imaginative pairing of relatively unknown works by Dvorak and Elgar was performed by Bury Choral Society in the final concert of their current season. The main work was Dvorak’s Mass in D. It was p... 15 May 2010
A French Affair Bury Choral Society’s concert at St Peter’s Church was a French affair with Mozart’s jewel ‘Ave verum corpus’ as a bonne-bouche. Two of Gabriel Faure’s best loved choral works provided the main course... 8 Feb 2010
Händel's Messiah 2009 If one is the newly-appointed musical director of a choral society, what better way to begin one’s career than with a performance of Messiah at the beginning of Advent in the local parish church? Sine... 1 Dec 2009