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30th June 2018
The Creation: J Haydn
Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands

1st December, 2018
Music for double choirs, Renaissance and early Classical
Ulverston Parish Church 
See Westmorland Music Trust's up to date concert diary for details of concerts in the area.

7.30 pm, Saturday 24th March, 2018 
Petite Messe Solonnelle: Rossini
with guest pianist, Anthony Hewitt & Colin Dean on harmonium
Soloists and second pianist to be announced. 
St James' Church, Barrow, LA14 5UE

7.30 pm, Saturday 2nd December, 2017 
Thamos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Requiem in C minor by Michael Haydn
with conductor, Marco Bellasi & local orchestra 
St. Mary's R.C. Church, Ulverston

Saturday 24th June 2017, with conductor, Deborah Milledge 
at Ulverston Parish Church 
Midsummer Night
Music for St. John's Day
Fauré's Requiem

All concerts below - performed under Musical Director, Dr. Anthony Milledge,
26th November 2016 
J.S. Bach 
Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat
St James' Church, Barrow

25th June 2016
Haydn Revealed 
Stabat Mater
Nelson Mass
St. Mary's RC Church, Ulverston

23rd April 2016 
The Surround of Music
Gabrieli: Nunc Dimittis
Charpentier: Mass
Monterverdi: Lauda Ierusalem
Allegri: Miserere 
Mendelssohn: Hora Est 
Tomkins: O Praise the Lord All Ye Heathen
Whitacre: Water Night
Gjeilo: Evening Prayer
Methodist Church,Ulverston

Saturday 5th December 2015 
Christmas around Europe
Songs and sacred seasonal music from various countries in Europe 
Methodist Church, Ulverston

Saturday 27th June 2015
St. Matthew Passion: J S Bach
with baroque orchestra, The Holborne Players
Leader: Peter Fender, The Evangelist: Ian Honeyman
Two choirs and two orchestras performed from opposite ends of the church. 
St. James' Church, Barrow in Furness, LA14 5UE

Saturday, 15th November 2014
St. James' Church, Barrow-in-Furness
Vaughan Williams
Benedicite
Three Songs from Shakespeare
Serenade to Music
Towards an Unknown Region
Fantasia on a Christmas Carol
The Lark Ascending
The Wasps - Overture
Furness Bach Choir & Orchestra
Requiem: Tomâs Luis de Victoria
Requiem: Maurice Duruflé
Ulverston Parish Church

Saturday, 28th June 2014
Messiah by George Frideric Handel
St Mary's Church, Dalton in Furness

Saturday, 5th April 2014
1000 years of Christmas Music
Ulverston Methodist Church

Sunday 15th December 2013
J. S. BACH Six motets, Double Concerto for two violins, Double Concerto for organ & harpsichord 
St Mary of Furness, Duke Street, Barrow

Saturday, 22nd June, 2013A Shepherd's Vespers: music by Anthony Milledge, words by Ross Baxter- Premiere 
All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninov
St Oswald's Church, Grasmere

Saturday, April 27th 2013
Italian Baroque
Monteverdi - Beatus Vir
Bononcini - Stabat Mater
Carissimi - Jephte
Handel - Dixit Dominus 
with the Holborne Players (baroque orchestra) 
St Mary's Parish Church Dalton-in-Furness

Saturday, 2nd March
A Shepherd's Vespers: music by Anthony Milledge, words by Ross Baxter- Premiere 
All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninov
St Mary of Furness Church, Ulverston

Saturday, 17th November
Judas Maccabeus by Handel
St. James's Church Barrow

16 June 2012
Elijah by Mendelssohn
St Mary's Parish Church, Ulverston

24 March 2012
Bach Night
St James's Church, Barrow 

12 November 2011
'Conductor's Choice' - a selection from composers including Handel, Buxtehude, Lotti, Fats Waller and Gershwin. 
Neville Street Methodist Church, Ulverston

18 June 2011
Israel In Egypt by Handel
St James' Church, Blake Street, Barrow-in-Furness 

9 April 2011
Requiem Mass by W. A. Mozart 
Theresa Mass by J. Haydn
St Mary of Furness RC Church, Ulverston

13 November 2010
Songs and Strawberries
20th century pieces by British, American and Estonian composers.
Ulverston Parish Church

26 June 2010
JS Bach St. John Passion
Furness Bach Choir with the Holborne Players (baroque orchestra)
St Mary's Church, Dalton-in-Furness

20 March 2010
Song of Songs 

Saturday 28th November 2009
St James' Church, Blake Street, Barrow-in-Furness 
Music spanning five centuries based on the sensual lyrics of the Song of Solomon and also including two motets in forty parts:
Tallis's Spem in alium and Striggio's Ecce beatam lucem.

27th June 2009 Midsummer Melodies
St Columba's RC Church, Walney Island, Barrow 
Programme of short choral, solo and instrumental pieces with readings

1st July 2009 Serenade for Summer
Grange-over-Sands United Reformed Church

9th May 2009
Mass in B minor by J S Bach 
Furness Bach Choir and Holborne Players 
Conductor: Anthony Milledge
Baroque orchestra led by Peter Fender
Parish Church, Ulverston

November 2008 
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor for unaccompanied double choir
George Jeffreys (17th c. English composer) :Our Blessed Saviour Cycle of 
7 verse anthems for the Church's year (its first modern performance)
St Mary of Furness RC Church, Ulverston

May 2008 G F Handel Samson

November 2007 Echoes of Bohemia (pieces by 17th and 18th c. Czech composers)

April 2007 Treasures of the Baroque (Vivaldi Beatus Vir, Handel, 9th Chandos Anthem, Purcell Welcome to all the Pleasures, J S Bach Mass in G minor)

December 2006 Handel's Messiah

May 2006 Leopold Mozart Mass in C Michael Haydn St Francis Mass

November 2005 Gounod St Cecilia Mass Durufl Requiem

May 2005 J Haydn Nelson Mass plus music by Mozart and Michael Haydn

November 2004 M Haydn St Theresa Mass, Mozart Requiem

June 2004 Jonathan Dove Tobias and the Angel (with English Touring Opera)

May 2004 Dvorak Mass in D, Faure's Requiem
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