We will be performing:

Berlioz: Te Deum

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (men's voices only)

Fauré/Messager: Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville (women's voices only)

Click on each piece for rehearsal websites.  Adrian's performance notes can be downloaded below.

We will go through all these works at the Workshop and will be performing them in Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday 5 July 2024 as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Adrian Partington will work us hard, stretch and challenge us, and send us home tired and happy and musically wiser.
All who take part in this Workshop will be offered places in the July 2025 performance.

Venue: The Crypt School, Podsmead Road, Gloucester GL2 5AE

Timetable: Saturday 26 April 2025
9.30am: Arrival and registration
10am-11am First rehearsal
11am-11.30am Coffee break
11.30am-1.00pm second rehearsal
1.00pm -2.00pm lunch break. PLEASE BRING A PACKED LUNCH.
2.00pm-4.00pm third rehearsal

Tickets: £25
Score hire: £3 per score
Score purchase: Berlioz £13.50, Brahms £8.50 and Faure £12.50
Bus from Thornbury £15

BUS: The departure will be from outside Aldi in Thornbury at 08.45am on Saturday 26th April and
the bus will leave from The Crypt School at 16.15pm for the return journey.

We will split up for parts of the rehearsal as the Alto Rhapsody is for men’s voices only while the Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville is for women’s voices only. The Te Deum has no alto part as written so the sopranos will be singing the choir I soprano part and the altos will be singing the choir II soprano part.

You can book online here, or by downloading the attached form and sending it by post to the Chairman:

Jos Gregson
18 Willoughby Close
Alveston
Bristol BS35 3RW

tel. 01454-411652
or by email chairman@bigsing.org