A new season a new start after two very successful performances in March 

Welcome to Petersfield Choral Society


This long established Choral Society, based in Petersfield Hampshire invites singers, whether you are experienced or not to come along and join us. We meet most Thursday evenings commencing Thursday 5th September  St Peter's Church Hall , Petersfield and rehearse  from 7:30 until 9:30.

You are assured of a warm welcome. We sing a wide repertoire of choral music both ancient and modern and we sing in both of the major choral concerts of the renowned Petersfield Musical Festival each year

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This Season's Repertoire:

Rehearsals start:

Thursday 5th  September at St Peter’s Hall, St Peter's Road, Petersfield GU32 3HX

Vivaldi Gloria in D RV589

Saturday I5 March 2025 
Festival Chorus, with Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies Southern Pro Musica Conductor: Paul Spicer


Vivaldi’s Gloria has become one of the best-loved of all baroque choral works. Energetic, rhythmic choral movements alternate with reflective sections and tuneful solos, accompanied by the bright colours of strings, oboes and trumpet. Haydn’s ‘Creation’ Mass of 1801

Haydn 'Creation' Mass no. 13

 (named after a short quotation in it from The Creation) is a classic of the choral repertoire, but it has never been performed at the Festival. It’s music that fully lives up to Haydn’s comment, ‘When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.’






Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

It would be hard to imagine a more uplifting tribute to the power of music than Hubert Parry’s 1887 setting of the noble words of Milton’s Ode ‘At a solemn Music’, especially in its original richly-textured 8-part version.

Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem

Vaughan Williams’ powerful plea for peace, Dona nobis pacem, was written in 1936. This beautiful, deeply moving and ultimately optimistic work has lost none of its relevance. Set for chorus and orchestra with soprano and baritone soloists, it combines Biblical texts with the vivid, dramatic poems of Walt Whitman.

 VIVALDI    Gloria

HAYDN Creation Mass No. 13

Hubert Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

Ralph Vaughan Williams Don Nobis Pacem

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