Welcome to the Brockenhurst Choral Society

Tickets are available via the link at the top of this page, from Streets and Pot Pourri in Brockenhurst or at the door.

Concert this Saturday - support your local choir !

We have a program of glorious choral music accompanied by an elite chamber orchestra. A couple of bonus items:

Nigel Blomiley (ex-principal cellist of the BBC Concert Orchestra) will be playing a few movements from a Bach Cello Suite.
John MacDomnic will be playing a Trumpet Concerto by Guiseppe Torelli.

Vivaldi’s Gloria

Vivaldi was a priest, virtuoso violinist, composer of concertos, sacred works, operas, impresario and music teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta, the Venetian girls’ orphanage where he taught music from 1703. Of his many compositions perhaps the most famous are the quartet of violin concertos (The Four Seasons) and this wonderful Gloria. The Gloria is a well-loved favourite of choirs and audiences alike. The wonderfully sunny nature of the piece with its distinctive melodies and rhythms, is characteristic of all of Vivaldi’s music, giving it an immediate and universal appeal.

Schubert's Mass in G

.. was composed when he was eighteen in 1815. His prodigious output that year included two symphonies, two masses, some chamber works and 144 songs. It was composed for his local parish church in a suburb of Vienna and originally scored for soloists , choir, strings and organ. Despite the fact that it was written in less than a week, it is a delightful and lyrical work.

We will also be performing have two settings of Ave Verum Corpus - the well-known one by Mozart and that by Elgar.

The Brockenhurst Choral Society is an amateur mixed choir based in Brockenhurst in the heart of the New Forest. We are enthusiastic, friendly and love singing. We perform a broad classical repertoire.

We hold two concerts a year (normally in May / June and December), and we regularly work with professional soloists and orchestras. Recent notable performances have included Charpentier Masse de Minuit, Bach St John Passion, Britten St Nicholas, Zimbe, Little Jazz Mass, the Mozart Requiem, Faure Requiem, Handel Coronation Anthems, Brahms Requiem, Handel Messiah, Vaughan Williams ‘A Sea Symphony’, Bach Mass in B minor, Goodall Requiem ‘Eternal Light’ and Haydn ‘The Creation’.

New members (all voice parts) are always welcome and we are particularly keen to recruit tenors and basses. If you would like to join us please get in touch. More details on our 'Join Us' page.