2022 Events

Bring & Buy Sale - Thursday, 20 January 2022

Handel ​Saul ​- Saturday, 19 March 2022, 7.30pm

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The story of the rise and fall of Saul is fraught with drama: violence, madness, mayhem,       and sorcery, as well as jealousy and love. Bath Cantata Group directed by Neil Moore along with a Baroque orchestra and a wonderful team of soloists perform one of Handel’s most brilliant works. Principal characters include Michal (Anastasia Bevan), smitten with David (Solomon Hayes), Saul’s haughty and class-conscious daughter Merab (Eleanor Little), and his eldest son Jonathan (Patrick Burrowes), whose reciprocated devotion to David is more vividly portrayed than any other relationship in the libretto or the Scriptures. Saul (Niall Hoskin) starts as ‘the handsomest man in Isreal’ but ends with his ignominious death in battle. Don’t miss out!

Music for a summer's evening
​Saturday, 18 June 2022, Freshford Village Hall

Come join BCG and soprano Julia O'Connor in their summer concert full of uplifting and familiar choruses!

Tickets include strawberries & cream!

£15 from Bath Box Office or on the door

Programme

Opera Choruses
Bizet Habanera
Handel Chorus of the enchanted islanders 
Mozart Voyagers’ chorus 
Puccini Humming chorus 
Purcell Dido’s lament 
Verdi Anvil chorus 
Verdi Chorus of the Hebrew slaves

Anthems
Stanford The blue bird
Sullivan The long day closes
Rheinberger Abendlied 
Finzi My spirit sang all day                                                                                                 Brahms Geistliches lied 
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
                                                                                                             Madrigals 
A little pretty bonny lass 
My bonny lass she smileth 
April was in my mistress' face ​

Come & Sing Choral Workshop
Saturday, 5 November 2022, 10am–4pm
St Luke's Church, Hatfield Road, Wellsway, Bath

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​Bath Cantata Group (Bath’s longest running chamber choir, established in 1955) is delighted to invite singers to our next Come and Sing Choral Workshop. We will be looking at a work not often performed yet is full of fantastic music, from brimming excitement to sublime relaxation, Mozart's Solemn Vespers promises to deliver on all levels. Most known of all is the fifth movement, Laudate Domine made famous relatively recently by Emma Kirkby.

Haydn & Mozart
Saturday, 26 November 2022, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Bathwick, Bath

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BCG's first concert of their 2022–23 Season has two of the most well-known composers in attendance, Messers Haydn & Mozart. Haydn's thrillingly exciting motet Insanae et vanae curae kicks things off with a bang before Mozart's beautiful Solemn Vespers, including the sublime Laudate Dominum rounds up the first half. Haydn makes a return in the second half with the last of his six great masses, his Harmony Mass. Performed in the wonderful acoustic of St Mary's Church, Bathwick you won't want to miss out on what will be a great concert. 

Haydn Insanae et vanae curae
Mozart Solemn Vespers
Haydn Harmony Mass

Emily Vine soprano
Mercè Bruguera mezzo soprano
Ashley Turnell tenor
Niall Hoskin bass

Carleton Etherington organist 
Neil Moore ​musical director

Carol Singing for Dorothy House

This year we are singing carols at Abbey Gate, just next to the side of M&S in Bath raising funds for Dorothy House. Come along and get into the Christmas mood.