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The Balsham Singers - Concerts
Future Concerts
2025 is the 30th Anniversary year of the Balsham Singers. Our concerts in May and December will include pieces we have previously sung over the years, which hold special memories for us.
On concert on Saturday 13th December 2025 at 4.00pm will include works by Palastrina, Finzi, Berlioz, Handel, Bach and Laurisden and a special arrangement by John Clenaghan of the Christmas Alphabet - plus carols for our audience to join in.
Previous Concerts
Christmas Concert 2024
Saturday 16 December
Little Jazz Mass - Chilcott
Carols by Rutter, Holst & Mathias
Santa Baby
Carols for choir and audience participation
Summer Concert 2024
Saturday 18 May
Cantique de Jean Racine, and Requiem - Faure,
Medley from West Side Story - Bernstein
Jubilate Deo – Stanford
Anthem from Chess; Medley from Little Shop of Horrors –
arranged by John Clenaghan
Rhythm of Life – Coleman, arr. Barnes
Locus Iste – Bruckner
Skye Boat Song – arr. Chilcott
Pastyme with Good Company – Henry VIII
Christmas Concert 2023
Saturday 16 December
Mary had a baby
In dulci jubilo,
Ding Dong merrily on high,
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol,
Ring out wild bells, and
The 12 days after Christmas
Plus audience Carols
Summer Concert 2023
Saturday 13 May
Five Mystical Songs - Vaughan Williams
Little Organ Mass - Haydn
Chorus of Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco - Verdi
Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore - Verdi
Seal Lullaby - Whitacre
Over the Rainbow & Autumn Leaves - from Eva Cassidy Songbook
Medley from Jekyll & Hyde
My House & When I Grow Up - from Matilda
Christmas Concert 2022
Saturday 17th December
A feast of Christmas - Bullard
O Magnum Mysterium - Laurisden
Balsham´s bite-sized Christmas Medley - arr JPC
Mary Did You Know - arr JPC
O Holy Night - Adam
Candlelight Carol - Rutter
Joys Seven - arr Cleobury
Mid-Winter - Chilcott
Sussex Carol - arr Willcocks
Gabriels Message - arr Willcocks
Summer Concert 2022
Saturday 21st May 2022
In acknowledgement of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
I was Glad - Parry
Coronation Anthems - Handel
The National Anthem (4 part rendition)
How can I keep from Singing - Traditional
I believe I can fly - Robert Kelly
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Like all other choirs, sadly we were unable to perform any concerts in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID pandemic.
Christmas Concert 2019
Saturday 14th December 2019
Te Deum - Rutter
Thou, O God, art praised in Sion - Boyle
Lead, kindly Light - Walker
How Lovely are thy Dwellings - Brahms
Love Divine - Goodall
Expectans Expectavi - Wood
Hail, Holy Queen (from Sister Act) - arr. Shaiman
Ring Out Wild Bells - Percy E Fletcher
Angelus ad Virginem - 14th Century Irish Carol arr. Willcocks
Jingle Bells - arr. Willcocks
Jesus Child - Rutter
I wonder as I wander - Appalachian carol arr. by Rutter
O Magnum Mysterium - Victoria
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Poston
Mary, did you know? - arr. by JP Clenaghan (our MD)
Bethlehem Down - Warlock
plus a small number of well known audience-participation carols (words supplied)- TBA
Summer Concert 2019
Saturday 18th May
Accompanist - Ralph Woodward
Soloists: Eleanor Cramer, Bridget Hardy, Stephen Lawrence, Ian Priestley
Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice - Finzi
Mass in C, K.317 “Coronation Mass” - Mozart
Evening Hymn - Balfour Gardiner
Non Nobis Domine - Kipling / R.Quilter
Fields of Gold - G.M.Sumner (Sting) arr. R.Emerson
Ain’t Misbehaivin’ - Razaf / Fats Waller & Brooks arr. P.Gritton
Skye Boat Song - Sir Harold Boulton / Trad Scottish arr. B.Chilcott
Irish Blessing - Trad./Chilcott
Medley from Les Miserables - Boublil, Natel & Kretzmer / Schonberg
Christmas Concert 2018
Saturday 15th December
Accompanist - Ralph Woodward
Soloists: Eleanor Cramer, Stephen Lawrence, Ian Priestley
Gonna Rise Up Singin’ - D. Besig
Steal Away - Trad.arr. JP Clenaghan
Mass in G - Schubert
Carol of the Bells - Wilhousky /Leontovich
In the Bleak Mid Winter - C.Rosetti/H.Darke
Ring out Wild Bells - Tennyson/Percy E Fletcher
What Sweeter Music - Herrick/ Rutter
A Spotless Rose - words 15th century origin /H.Howells
Santa Baby - Javits, Springer & Springer /arr. Wikeley
I Saw Three Ships - English Trad. arr. Rutter
Saturday 19th May 2018
A celebration of music by Parry, Schubert, Stopford and more
Stopford – Jubilate
Parry – I was Glad; My Soul, there is a Country, Never Weather Beaten Sail
Coleman - Rhythm of Life
Schubert - Lebenslust; An die Sonne; Der Tanz
Andersson/Ulvaeus - Medley from "Mamma Mia"
Saturday May 20th, 2017
The Gift of Life Six Canticles of Creation - John Rutter
How calmly the evening - Edward Elgar
Lead Kindly Light - Fridrik Walker
Tequila Samba – Guy Turner
The Lion King – arr. Mark Brymer
Evita - Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Mermaid - John Whitworth
Saturday 17th December 2016
Short Festival Te Deum - Holst
Regina Coeli - Mozart
Christmas Oratorio - Bach
Ev'ry time I feel the spirit - Trad. arr Chilcott
Jingle Bells - Pierpont arr. Willcocks
The Shepherd's Farewell - Berlioz
Sans Day Carol - Trad. arr Rutter
Sir Christemas - Mathias
The Virgin Mary has a baby boy - arr. Runswick
Go tell it on the mountain - arr. Runswick
Plus audience carols
Saturday May 14th 2016
Gloria – Poulenc
Give unto the Lord – Elgar
Insanae et vanae curae – Haydn
Three Frank Sinatra songs (I got you under my skin, The lady is a tramp, New York New York)
Medley from Jekyll and Hyde the musical
Annie’s Song
Three songs after Eva Cassidy (Over the rainbow, Autumn leaves, Wade in the water)
A flower remembered (Rutter)
Beach Boys Medley
Saturday December 19th 2015
Brahms - How lovely are thy dwellings fair
Handel - Excepts from Messiah
Vivaldi - Gloria
and other seasonal pieces
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Saturday May 16th 2015
Balsham singers 20th Anniversary Spring concert
Parry’s “I was Glad”
Handel’s “Four Coronation Anthems”
Rutter’s “The Sprig of Thyme”
Fauré’s “Cantique de Jean Racine”
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