Concert Reviews
December 2018: Peace on Earth
Saturday 15 December 2018
Exeter Cathedral
Baritone Roderick Williams OBE
Band of HM Royal Marines, CTCRM
Conductor Nigel Perrin
This concert, given in aid of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal for the armed forces charity SSAFA, aimed to bring together three disparate themes: World War I, Christmas, and the choir’s own 25th anniversary.
October 2018: An Evening with J S Bach
Saturday 20 October 2018
Sidmouth Parish Church
It was an imaginative idea to present four of Bach’s wonderful motets in a single programme, interspersed with two of his French Suites.
July 2018: Claudio Monteverdi Vespers 1610
Saturday 14 July 2018
Exeter Cathedral
It was with a sense of excited anticipation that I sat in a very warm Exeter Cathedral awaiting the start of one of the greatest choral works ever written, confident that Nigel Perrin and the EFC would deliver a credible performance.
Audience comments on the Monteverdi Vespers concert
"The evening brought out many emotions and even the occasional tear due to the magnitude of what we were experiencing... a memorable evening."
March 2018: Rachmaninov Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Saturday 17 March 2018
Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Festival Chorus started the celebrations for their 25th anniversary in style in Exeter Cathedral last night.
December 2017: A Ceremony of Carols
Saturday 9 December 2017
Buckfast Abbey
Planning a Christmas Concert programme with any degree of originality is a tough call for a choir director,
November 2017: Duruflé and Dvořák
Saturday 18 November 2017
Exeter Cathedral
The twinned cities of Exeter and Bad Homburg came together on Saturday evening for an excellent choral concert, given by the Exeter Festival Chorus and the Erlöserkirche Bachchor, directed by Nigel Perrin.
June 2017: David Fanshawe's African Sanctus
Sunday 25 June 2017
Exeter Phoenix
Africa can mean bright colours, and insistent drum beats with complex cross-rhythms.
April 2017: Heaven on Earth
Saturday 1 April 2017
St Peter's Parish Church, Budleigh Salterton
“Beautiful”, “stunning phrasing” and “amazing” were just some of the comments that my fellow audience members uttered at the end of this memorable concert.
December 2016: Christmas Oratorio
Saturday 3 December 2016
Exeter Cathedral
BACH'S CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS
J S Bach's six cantatas composed to celebrate Christmas in Leipzig in 1734 make a surprisingly satisfactory whole when presented as his Christmas Oratorio, the work the Exeter Festival Chorus chose to perform on 3 December in Exeter Cathedral as its contribution to the city's festive celebrations.
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