Saturday, 20 December 2014
Monday, 16 June 2014
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Evening with Ghislaine Morgan
Valentine Singers will be joined by soloists Sarah Stroh and Paul Sheehan plus piano duet Caroline Finlay and Tim Smith.
Tickets online at http://www.valentinesingers.org/ticket.html
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Clare visited us at Valentine Singers a few weeks ago and this is her feedback
Friday, 6 July 2012
Mirror of Perfection review
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Brilliant review if you get the meaning!
This free performance of the famed Valentine Singers from London, was a hit!
Their alternating one-hour programme (a Capella) was the sweetest .... absentees were wrong
Thank you, ALBERT, for this wonderful invitation.
Until next week in the rehearsal, to fly with FULL CHEST in there ....
greetings to everyone from JOS, the portraits tractor.
Google translate I fear! I used that for the poster too, I wonder what it said!
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
CONCERT REVIEW
Valentine Singers
St Gabriel’s Church, Aldersbrook
Saturday 12 November 2011
Valentine Singers chose music from England and Austria at St Gabriel’s Church, Aldersbrook, presenting a varied programme of works by Britten, Bruckner and Tallis among others.
The concert opened with Charles Wood’s Oculi omnium, sung from the back of the church, and this was followed by Thomas Tallis’s Canon. While singing the Canon the choir processed to the front, using both sides of the church, resulting in a magical surround-sound effect for the audience. The first half of the concert continued with two wonderful performances of Bruckner motets, Ave Maria and Locus iste, which were full of expressive and well-controlled singing. Haydn’s Little Organ Mass closed the first half. This short Mass is a delight both to sing and listen to and the Valentine Singers did not disappoint. Special congratulations go to soprano Clare Gailans for her first class solo in the Benedictus.
Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb opened the second half – a rather eccentric work which the Singers performed with great skill, save a slight lack of incisiveness in the rhythmically complex second section. I am a big fan of Geoffrey Burgon’s works, but feel that his Nunc Dimittis needed a trumpet part in order to provide some contrast in sound and texture.
Frances, Emma and Peter Quintrell, Audrey Cassidy, Anthony Harrison and Andrew Taylor sang solo parts – all of them should feel proud of their contribution. The excellent David Sheppard was organist for the evening, and as usual the skills of conductor Christine Gwynn resulted in an enjoyable evening.
John Buckmaster