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
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.