For our next ‘Come and Sing’ workshop on 23 September, we shall be exploring outstanding examples of German Romantic choral music. The repertoire is vast, but some individual works stand out as having a particular resonance. Brahms wrote many a capella pieces both sacred and secular, but the Fest- und Gedenksprüche (Opus 109) are...

Peter Broadbent writes about programming our next concert: Seascapes is the title of a set of three songs written for JCS by Paul Reade, who died 20 years ago in June 1997. It was written as a companion piece to St Brendan and the Fishes, an evocative and amusing piece he wrote for the...