22nd March 1941 Coleridge-Taylor 10th May 1941 · Stephen Wilkinson Kodály Missa Brevis Wesley Carmen Funèbre 1952/53 28th March 1953 Bach St. Matthew Passion Andrew Gold (tenor)

Season date composer piece soloists Orchestra and

instrumentalists

location Conductor and any

additional choirs

1938/39 Rehearsals only Ursula Nettleship

1939/40 23rd March 1940 Handel Messiah Winifred Bury,

Mervyn Saunders,

Ifor Hughes,

Haileybury College

Orchestra

Eric Bravington (trumpet)

Haileybury Combined choirs inc.

HCS

Dr Reginald

Johnson, Haileybury

1940/41 22nd March 1941 Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

Haileybury HCS and Haileybury

College Choir

10th May 1941 Brahms How lovely is thy dwelling

place

Hertford Orchestra Shire Hall Frank Greenfield

Pinsuti

arr. Greenfield

A Spring Song

There is a lady sweet and

kind

Stanford The Blue Bird

Corydon, Arise!

1940/41 July 1941

Repertoire unknown

Bishops Stortford

Music Festival

Frank Greenfield

1942/43 12th December

1942

Brahms The Serenade

Hertford Orchestra Shire Hall,

Hertford

Hector McCurrach

Stanford The Revenge

Weelkes Like two proud armies

27th May 1943 Handel Messiah Margaret Field-Hyde

(soprano), Eileen

Pilcher (alto), Peter

Pears (tenor), Henry

Cummings, bass)

Leader: Dorothy Loynes W

J Comley (organ)

Hector McCurrach

(continuo)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Reginald Jacques

(combined choirs of

Broxbourne,

Cheshunt, Hertford,

Hertford Free

Churches,

Haileybury, Much

Hadham,

Thundridge, Ware)

1943/44 Date unknown Haydn The Creation unknown unknown Hertford Music Club

concert with Hertford

and other choirs


1944

Bach Christmas Oratorio Kathleen Willson

(contralto), Elster

Kay (tenor), W R

Lloyd (bass)

Orchestra of wood wind

and strings

Harold Makinson (piano)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Hector McCurrach

with Haileybury

Madrigal Society

10th March 1945 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony unknown unknown Haileybury School Hector McCurrach

with massed choirs

1945/46 18th May 1946 Handel Acis and Galatea Margaret Bissett

(contralto), Harry

Abbott (tenor)

Hertford Music Club

String Orchestra

Nancy Cordery

(accompanist)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Harry Stubbs

Holst Two psalms

Folk Songs

Farmer

Playford

Fair Phyllis I saw

Great Tom is Cast


1946

Stanford Songs of the Fleet Robert Irwin

(baritone)

Hertford Music Club

Orchestra Leader: Ruth

Fourmy

Nancy Cordery (Piano)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

William (Bill)

Snowdon

Vaughan Williams

Parry

Davies

In Windsor Forest

Part songs

Part songs

20th March 1947 Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Arthur Sykes (tenor) Hertford Music Club

Orchestra

Leader: Ruth Fourmy

E. Philpott (piano)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

William (Bill)

Snowdon

Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince

Igor)

1947/48 21st December

1947

Christmas concert

Friends’ Meeting

House, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

6th March 1948 Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Joyce Gow (soprano),

Anthea Guillaume

(soprano), Jean

Austin Dobson

(contralto), Wilfrid

Brown (tenor), John

Carol Case (bass),

Marcus Dods (bass)

Hertford Orchestra

Leader: Ruth Fourmy

J H Makinson (piano)

Hertford Grammar

Schoool (Richard

Hale School)

Stephen Wilkinson

Purcell The Masque in Dioclesian


1948

Vaughan Williams

Cornelius

Howells

Fantasia on Christmas

Carols

The Three Kings

A Spotless Rose

Myra Virden

(contralto), Geoffrey

Winsor (baritone)

small orchestra

Alison Moss (piano)

Shire Hall Stephen Wilkinson

and Margaret Squires

(Combined Choirs of

Hertford &

Hoddesdon Music

Clubs)

19th December

1948

Vaughan Williams

Cornelius

Howells


Carols

The Three Kings

A Spotless Rose

small orchestra

Alison Moss (piano)

Friends’ Meeting

House, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

11th June 1949 Bach Jesu, Priceless Treasure Myra Virden

(contralto)

String Orchestra Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Stephen Wilkinson

Debussy

Gibbons

Pearsall

Trois Chansons de Charles

d'Orléans

Madrigals

Madrigals

10th July 1949 Debussy

Pearsall

Gibbons

Mixed songs

Madrigals

Madrigals

St Mary's Church,

Hitchin

Stephen Wilkinson

(The Hertfordshire

Singers and The

Hertford Choir)

1949/50 25th March 1950 Scarlatti Stabat Mater Joyce Gow (soprano),

Alison Purves

(soprano)

String Band

Ivor Davies (organ), Sheila

Stuart Scott (violin),

Frederick Knight (cello)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

Buxtehude Missa Brevis

Couperin Troisième Lecon de

Ténèbres

6th July 1950 Scarlatti

Buxtehude

Couperin

Stabat Mater

Missa Brevis

Troisième Lecon de

Ténèbres

Joyce Gow (soprano),

Alison Purves

(soprano)

Sheila Stuart Scott (violin),

Ivor Davies (Organ)

St Paul's Church,

Bedford

Stephen Wilkinson

1950/51 30th September

1950

Scarlatti

Buxtehude

Couperin

Stabat Mater

Missa Brevis

Troisième Lecon de

Ténèbres

Joyce Gow (soprano),

Alison Purves

(soprano)

Harry Gabb (organ -

organist at St Paul's

Cathedral)

St Nicholas’

Church, Stevenage

Stephen Wilkinson

18th November

1950

Royal Albert Hall

Sir Adrian Boult

(Rural Music

Schools Festival

Concert, celebrating

21st anniversary of

1st HRMS in

Hertfordshire)

2nd July 1951 Handel Italian Duets and Trios

Mary Potts (harpsichord) Christ’s Hospital

School, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

5th July 1951 Brahms Sacred Music motets

Choral Preludes

Beryl Matthews (organ) All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

7th July 1951 Hopkins Cutty Sark (world

première)

Corn Exchange,

Hertford

Antony Hopkins


1951

Christmas Concert

Elsie Warner, Violin with

The Hertford Orchestra

All Saints’ Church

17th June 1952 Purcell Benedicte omnia opera Nell Lloyd, Alex

Macpherson, Jessie

Pettengell (soprano),

Ama Maynard

(contralto), Myra

Virden (contralto),

Noel Morton (tenor),

David Martin (bass)

Beryl Matthews (organ) St Andrew's

Church, Stanstead

Abbots

Stephen Wilkinson

Kodály

Wesley

Missa Brevis

Carmen Funèbre

19th June 1952 Purcell Benedicite omnia opera Nell Lloyd, Alex

Macpherson, Jessie

Pettengell (soprano),

Ama Maynard

(contralto), Myra

Virden (contralto),


David Martin (bass)

Beryl Matthews (organ) St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

Kodály Missa Brevis

Wesley Carmen Funèbre

1952/53 28th March 1953 Bach St. Matthew Passion Andrew Gold (tenor)

Ilse Wolf (soprano),

Peter Currell (tenor),

Evelyn Cuthill

(contralto), Kenneth

Jones (baritone),

George Parker

(baritone)

Chorus and Orchestra of

Hitchin & District Musical

Society,

Girls of Christ's Hospital

School

St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Stephen Wilkinson

1953/54 6th March 1954 Schütz The Seven Last Words Sheila Boglace

(soprano), Bridget

Strong (contralto),

Edmund Weston

(tenor), Owen

Grundy (bass)

Orchestra of the Hitchin

and District Music Society

St Andrew’s

Church, Hertford

Derek Clare

Mozart Requiem

3rd July 1954

Hertford Corn

Exchange

Evelyn Webb (Silver

Jubilee Founder's

Day concert)


1954

Da Vittoria O Quam Gloriosum Est

Regnum

String Ensemble St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Bach Jesu, Priceless Treasure

Kodály Jesus, and the Traders

14th May 1955 Bach Easter Cantata No. 4

St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Beethoven Mass in C

1955/56 25th February

1956

Bach

Fauré

Cantata No. 150 Jean Burrow

(soprano), Ama

Maynard (contralto),


Robin Oldham

(baritone)

Bertram Orsman (organ) St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Requiem

1956/57 24th March 1956 Beethoven Mass in C Marjorie Barrow

(soprano), Kathleen

Stanyon (contralto),

Peter Currell (tenor),

John Heathfield

(bass)



Society Leader: Vera

Charlwood

St Mary's Church

Hitchin

Evelyn Webb (joint

with Choir and

orchestra of the

Hitchin and District

Musical Society)

8th December

1956

Handel Messiah Anne Denyar

(soprano), Winifred

Leaper (contralto),

Derek Rodgers

(tenor), David Read

(bass)

Leader: Stuart Foord

Bertram Orsman (Organ),

Derek Clare (Harpsichord)

St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

30th March 1957 Schütz

Franck

Ponder My Words, O Lord

Chorale No. 3 in A Minor

Adrienne Cole

(soprano), Philip

Hattey (baritone)

Bertram Orsman (organ) St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Brahms A German Requiem

1957/58 11th January 1958 Bach Christmas Oratorio Gwen Honeychurch

(soprano), Anne

Ashton-Channon

(alto), Peter Currell

(tenor), Noel Morton

(tenor), Philip Hattey

(bass)



Society

Leader: Vera Charlwood

Bertram Orsman (organ),

Derek Clare (harpsichord)

St Andrew’s

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Buxtehude Magnificat

Gibbons See, the Word is incarnate

Scarlatti Christmas Cantata

22nd March 1958 Brahms A German Requiem Gwen Honeychurch

(soprano), George

Parker (baritone)

Hitchin Choir and

Orchestra

St Mary's Church,

Hitchin

Evelyn Webb

14th June 1958

Part Songs (Founder's Day

- Hertfordshire Rural

Music School)

Hitchin Town Hall Evelyn Webb


1958

Purcell O Sing unto the Lord Anne Denyar

(soprano), Winifred

Leaper (contralto),


Gordon Farrell (bass)



Society Leader: Vera

Charlwood

George Smith (organ)

St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Handel Chandos Anthem No. 5

Haydn Sixteenth Mass

25th April 1959 Scarlatti Stabat Mater (ten parts) Noel Morton (tenor) George Smith (Organ) St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Evelyn Webb

Bach Chorale prelude

Schütz St Matthew Passion

13th June 1959

Founders Day Concert

Hitchin Town Hall Evelyn Webb


1959

Finzi Christmas Scene Anne Denyar

(soprano), Maureen

Lehane (contralto),

Noel Morton (tenor)

String and Piano

accompaniment

St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Ronald Burrow

Britten A Ceremony of Carols

Sweelinck Hodie Christus Natus Est

Vivaldi Gloria

2nd April 1960 Bach St John Passion Jean Burrow

(soprano), Celia

Piercey (contralto),


David Read (bass)

Small String Orchestra

Leader: David Thompson

St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Ronald Burrow

1960/61 11th February

1961

Monteverdi The Mass 'of 1651' Noelle Barker

(soprano), Zena Ford

(contralto), Philip

Todd (tenor), Philip

Hattey (bass)

Small String Orchestra


St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Dvorák Stabat Mater

6th May 1961 Gibbons The Cryes of London parts

1 and 2

Frederick McArdell

(tenor), Robin

Oldham (bass)

Small string orchestra


Clifton Kelynack (organ)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

Moeran Choral Suite - Phyllida

and Corydon

Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music

1961/62 18th November

1961

Purcell Ode on St Cecilia's Day Nell Lloyd (soprano),

Peter Boggis

(counter-tenor),

Geoffrey Mitchell

(counter-tenor),

Frederick McArdell

(tenor), David Price-

Smith (bass),

Small String orchestra


Audrey Sunderland

(piano), Jennifer Roberts

(piano)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

Britten St Nicolas

14th April 1962 Schütz St Luke Passion Elizabeth Sewell

(soprano), Noel

Morton (tenor),

Robin Oldham

(baritone)

Margaret Weaver (organ) St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Fauré Requiem

1962/63 26th January 1963 Parry Blest Pair of Sirens Anne Keynes

(soprano), Noel

Morton (tenor)

Leader: David Thompson Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

Brahms Liebeslieder

Rootham Brown Earth

Wilbye, Pearsall

German

Madrigals

Orpheus with his lute

Bliss Pastoral (Lie strewn the

white flocks)

25th May 1963 Verdi Stabat Mater Adrienne Cole

(soprano), Lesley

Wood (contralto),

Frederick McCardell

(tenor), Philip Hattey

(bass)

Leader: David Thompson St Andrew's

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Verdi Te Deum

Schubert Mass in A-flat major No. 5

1963/64 21st March 1964 Bach St Matthew Passion Fredereck McArdell,

Ann Dowdall, Leslie

Wood, Laurence

Richard, Eric Barnes

J McKay Martin

Amateur String Orchestra

with some professional

players Leader: John L

Clement with choir of

Much Hadham Musical

Society

Pamela Hinde O'Malley

(Continuo)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

30th May 1964 Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince

Igor)

Noel Morton (tenor) Hertford Orchestra Leader:

Leslie Halton (concert

organised by Hertford

Orchestra)

Hertford Grammar

Schiool (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

Finzi Intimations of Immortality

1964/65 27th March 1965 Bach Mass in B minor Noelle Barker

(soprano), Maureen

Lehane (contralto),

Gerald English

(tenor), Roy

Tattersall (bass)

Much Hadham Musical

Society Leader: Jack

McDougal

Audrey Sunderland and

Pamela Hinde O'Malley

(continuo)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

29th May 1965 Handel Chandos Anthem No. 6 Jessie Hopkins

(soprano), Noel

Moreton (tenor),

William Shiri (bass)

Hertford Orchestra Leader:

Hugh Wright

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

Jacob Songs

1965/66 12th March 1966 Buxtehude Missa Brevis Barbara Yates

(soprano), Sylvia

Swan (alto), John

Steel (tenor), Peter

Leeming (bass)

Leader: Jack McDougal All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Verdi Requiem

18th June 1966 Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest

The Hertford Orchestra Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

1966/67 11th March 1967 Byrd Mass for Four Voices Hazel Holt (soprano),

Sylvia Rowlands

(mezzo-soprano),

Eric Barnes (tenor),

John McKenzie

(bass)

Leader: Jack McDougal All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Mozart Mass in C minor

6th May 1967 Purcell O Sing Unto the Lord


Leader: Hugh Wright

Jack Hindmarsh (Piano)

Hertford Grammar

School (Richard

Hale School)

Clifton Kelynack

Tate Hampstead Heath

Lambert The Rio Grande

1967/68 23rd March 1968 Scarlatti Stabat Mater Patricia Hooper

(soprano), Michael

Rippon (baritone)

Leader: Jack McDougal

Jack Hindmarsh (organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack


11th May 1968 Bach Cantata No.150


Leader: Hugh Wright

Richard Hale

School, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs

Jacob Old Wine in New Bottles


1968/69 15th March 1969 Bach Magnificat in D Angela Beale

(soprano), Peggy

Castle (contralto),

Edgar Thomas

(tenor), Christopher

Field (bass)

Leader: J Bransby Roberts All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Haydn Harmoniemesse

17th May 1969 Britten Hymn to St Cecilia

The Hertford Orchestra All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack


Igor)

1969/70 7th March 1970 Beethoven Mass in C major Margaret Morrell

(soprano), Gwyneth

Griffiths (contralto),

John Dudley (tenor),

John King (bass)

Leader: J Bransby Roberts All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Mozart Requiem

20th May 1970

An evening in May: an

evening of Music and

Verse

Jean Taverner and James

Judd (organ)

Maurice Champ

(accompanist)

Christ's Hospital

School, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Gibbons The Cryes of London

Madrigals

Jacob

Highways

1970/71 20th March 1971 Bach St Matthew Passion Noelle Barker

(soprano), Gwyneth

Griffiths (contralto),

James Griffett

(tenor), Edmund

Bohan (tenor),

Rodney Macann

(bass)

Leader: J Bransby Roberts

Jack Hindmarsh (continuo

harpsichord), Dugald

Stewart (continuo cello),

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

1971/72 18th March 1972 Haydn Nelson Mass Audrey Attwood

(soprano), Margaret

Hallworth (contralto),

John Bantick (tenor),

Robert Carpenter

Turner (bass)


Jean Taverner (organ)

Christ's Hospital

School, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Fauré Requiem

6th May 1972 Beethoven Choral Fantasia


Leader: Hugh Wright Jack

Hindmarsh (piano)

Richard Hale

School, Hertford

Clifton Kelynack

Madrigals

1972/73 10th March 1973 Handel Samson Suzanne Green

(soprano), Gloria

Doubleday

(contralto), Edmund

Bohan (tenor), James

O'Neil (bass)

A small orchestra


Christ's Hospital

School, Hertford

Edwin Willson

26th May 1973 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Jean Allister (mezzo-

soprano), Kenneth

Woollam (tenor),

John Carol-Case

(bass)

Barbican Orchestra

Leader: John Bacon

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson

(guest Choirs: East

Herts Choral Society

and The Choir of

Christs Hospital

School)

1973/74 9th March 1974 Bach Mass in B minor Wendy Eathorne

(soprano), Janet

Edmunds (Mezzo-

soprano), Peter

Bamber (tenor),

Brian Raynor Cook

(bass baritone), Jean

Taverner (organ)

Leader: John Bacon

(Barbican Orchestra)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson

22nd May 1974 Bach The joy of our heart has

ceased

Elizabeth Lincoln

(soprano), Julia

Hastings (mezzo-

contralto), Peter Wall

(tenor), Alfonso Noto

(treble)

Thelma Tillaney

(narrator), Harold Baynes

(narrator), Jean Taverner

(organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson

Peeters Lied to the Sun

Honegger King David


1974

Christmas Concert Jean Taverner

(accompanist)

Brass Ensemble (members

of the East Herts Show

Band and Ware Town

Band)

East Herts

College, Turnford

Edwin Willson

(mixed choirs –

HCS, East Herts

Choral Society and

Beaumont Chorale

(conductor: David

Felstead)

22nd February

1975

Handel Dixit Dominus Elizabeth Lincoln

(soprano), Eileen

Mangan (soprano)

Tay Cheng-Jim

(Counter-tenor),

Victor Forsyth (tenor)

John Heddle Nash

(baritone)

A small orchestra Leader:

J Bransby Roberts

Jean Taverner and Nancy

Cordery (piano), Roger

Pope and Jean Taverner

(keyboard continuo)

Christ's Hospital

School, Hertford

Edwin Willson

Orff Carmina Burana

23rd February

1975

Handel Dixit Dominus Elizabeth Lincoln

(soprano), Eileen

Mangan (soprano)

Tay Cheng-Jim

(Counter-tenor),

Victor Forsyth

(tenor), Patrick

McCarthy (baritone)


Jean Taverner and Nancy

Cordery (piano), Roger

Pope and Jean Taverner

(keyboard continuo)

Christ's Hospital

School, Hertford

Edwin Willson

Orff Carmina Burana

3rd May 1975 Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 Mary Beverley

(soprano), Nancy

Long (mezzo-

soprano), David

James (counter

tenor), Paul Elliott

(tenor), Michael

Morton (baritone),

Rogers Covey-Crump

(tenor), Paul Hillier

(baritone)

Ars Nova Ensemble

and members of the

London Cornett and

Sackbutt Ensemble

St Andrew’s

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson

and Ars Nova

Consort of Voices


1975

Handel Messiah Delia Jones

(soprano), Lucy

Coleby (contralto),

Duncan Robertson

(tenor), John Oakman

(bass)

Leader: Stuart Deeks

Jean Taverner (organ),

Roger Pope (harpsichord

continuo) and Dugald

Stewart (cello continuo)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson

19th December

1975

Christmas Concert

Contemporary Saxophone

Quartet

East Herts

College, Turnford

Edwin Willson (with

East Herts Choral

and Beaumont

Chorale)

8th May 1976 Verdi Requiem Gwendoline Ross

(soprano), Laura Sarti

(mezzo-soprano), Ian

Thompson (tenor),

Graham Titus (bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

Jean Taverner

(accompanist)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson


1976

Christmas Concert Hester Brown

(soprano), Jessie

Hopkins (soprano),

Eileen Little

(contralto), Paul

Shipman (tenor),

Brian Martin (bass

baritone)

East Herts College Edwin Willson

(with East Herts

Choral and

Beaumont Chorale)

Charpentier Messe de Minuit

12th February

1977

Mozart Vesperae Solennes de

Confessore

Wendy Eathorne

(soprano), Phyllis

Aver (contralto),

Stephen Hill (tenor),

Glyn Davenport

(bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Edwin Willson


14th May 1977 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Derek Harrison

(counter-tenor),

Miriam Bowen

(soprano), Cherith

Milburn-Fryer (alto),

Gareth Roberts

(tenor), Jonathan

Robarts (bass)

Hertfordshire Chamber

Orchestra

Leader: John Phillips


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Howard Williams

Haydn Paukenmesse (Mass in

Time of War)


1977

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Iain Sutherland

4th February 1978 Bach St John Passion Kate Flowers

(soprano), Patricia

Price (contralto),

David Johnston

(Evangelist), Graham

Titus (Christus),

Anthony Fry (Pilate)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader:Roy Jones

Raymond Greenlees (cello

continuo), Andrew Teague

(harpsichord continuo)


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

7th April 1978 Verdi Requiem Wendy Eathorne

(soprano), Anne

Collins (alto),

Kenneth Bowen

(tenor), Raimund

Herincx (bass)

Hertfordshire County

Youth Orchestra Leader:

Clare Thompson

Royal Albert Hall Meredith Davies

(Mixed Choirs -

Vellore Concert)

10th June 1978 Schubert Mass in A-flat major No. 5 Olive Duncan

(soprano), Penelope

Walker (contralto),

Peter Jeffes (tenor),

Malcolm Arthur

(bass)


Orchestra

Leader: John Phillips

Castle Hall,

Hertford

Derek Harrison


1978

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas

Carols

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Handel Excerpts from Messiah

24th February

1979

Handel Coronation Anthems (The

King Shall Rejoice and Let

They Hand Be

Strengthened)

Helen Walker

(soprano), Jean

Allister (contralto),

Stuart Kale (tenor),

Stephen Roberts

(bass)

Hatfield Philharmonic

Leader: Jennifer Nickson


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Tippett A Child of Our Time

12th May 1979 Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Rosemary Harrison

(soprano), Anne Gall

(alto), Leslie Baker

(tenor), David Ireson

(bass)

Hertford Brass Ensemble


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Gabrieli Canzoni

Parry I was Glad

Monteverdi Deus in Adjutorium

Gabrieli In Ecclesis

Magnificat

arr. Vaughan Williams The Old Hundredth


1979

Handel

Bernstein

Excerpts from Messiah

Chichester Psalms

Marion Rowlatt

(soprano), Derek

Harrison (counter-

tenor), Simon

Berridge (tenor)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Iain Sutherland

23rd February

1980

Mendelssohn Elijah Helen Walker

(soprano), Wendy

Verco (mezzo-

soprano), Rogers

Covey-Crump

(tenor), David

Wilson-Johnson

(baritone)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Teresa Pople

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

7th June 1980 Lambert

Vaughan Williams

Stanford

Elgar

Brahms

The Rio Grande

Serenade to Music

The Bluebird

Three part songs

Liebeslieder Waltzes


Orchestra

Leader: Andrew Laing

Peter Wallfisch (piano),

Mark Hooper (piano),

Jean Taverner (piano)

Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison

1980/81 21st September

1980

Handel Coronation Anthems (The

King Shall Rejoice and Let

They Hand Be

Strengthened)

Evron twinning celebration

Castle Hall,

Hertford

Derek Harrison

15th November

1980

Handel Dettingen Te Deum Poppy Holden

(soprano), Mary

Nichols (contralto),

Joseph Cornwell

(tenor), Richard

Wistreich (bass)

(all soloists are

members of Consorte

of Musicke

Ensemble)


Orchestra

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mozart Vesperae Solennes de

Confessore

13th December

1980

Monteverdi Magnificat Marion Rowlatt

(soprano), Tamsin

Dives (soprano), Ann

Gall (contralto),

Leslie Baker (tenor),

Graham Trew (bass),

Clive Constance

(bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Charpentier Messe de Minuet

28th March 1981 Haydn The Seasons Lola Biagioni

(soprano), Elizabeth

Shelley (contralto),

David Young (tenor),

Gordon Farrall

(baritone)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader: Roy

Jones


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Fauré Requiem

Kodály Budavári Te Deum

27th June 1981 Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest Robert Carpenter

Turner

Serenata Notturna


Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison

Britten Choral Dances from

Gloriana

Jacob Highways


1981

Berlioz

Handel

The Shepherds’ Farewell

Hallelujah Chorus

(Messiah)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Iain Sutherland

18th December

1981

Family Christmas Concert

(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)

Ernest Read Symphony

Orchestra

Alan Haverson (organ)

Royal Festival

Hall

Howard Williams

6th February 1982 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Mary Lloyd-Davies

(contralto), David

Johnston (tenor),

Michael Rippon

(bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Plus De Merc

Chamber Choir and

members of the choir

of Clare College,

Cambridge

18th April 1982 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

(Vellore Charity

Concert)

Penelope Walker

(mezzo-soprano),

Kenneth Bowen

(tenor), Michael

Rippon (bass)


Youth Orchestra


14th May 1982 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)

Penelope Walker

(mezzo-soprano),

Kenneth Bowen

(tenor), Michael

Rippon (bass)


Orchestra


Royal Festival

Hall

Julian Williamson

22nd May 1982 Carissimi

Britten

Jephte

Saint Nicolas

Gail Mortley

(soprano), Wilfrid

Swansborough (alto),

Richard Morton

(tenor), Geoffrey

Dalton (bass)

Trebles from St

Alban’s School;

Mark Johnson (young

Nicolas), Thomas

Bending, Glyn

Hughes and Jonathan

Westwell (3 pickled

boys)

Hertfordshire Schools'

Sinfonia

Jean Taverner (organ),

Roger Pope and Paul

Rooke (piano)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison


1982

Mozart Requiem Susan Bullock

(soprano), Ann Gall

(alto), Nigel Robson

(tenor), Lawrence

Wallington (bass)


Orchestra

Leader: Stefan Bown

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

18th December

1982

Christmas Concert

Company of Players

(COPs)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

20th December

1982


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Howard Williams

19th March 1983 Handel Messiah Lesley Garrett

(soprano), Charles

Brett (contralto), Paul

Elliott (tenor), David

Thomas (bass)

Guildhall String Ensemble

and players from the

Guildhall School of Music

All Saints’ Church Derek Harrison

19th June 1983

David Wilson-

Johnson (bass)

David Owen Norris and


Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison

Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs

Finzi Two Poems of Robert

Bridges

Stanford Songs of the Fleet

Britten Ballad of Little Musgrave

and Lady Barnard

Delius To be Sung of a Summer's

Night on the Water

Bernstein Songs from West Side

Story

1983/84 29th October 1983 Haydn Harmoniemesse Fiona Dobie

(soprano), Susan

Tyrrell (alto),

Christoper Gillett

(tenor), Martin

Nelson (bass)


Orchestra

Leader: Stefan Bown

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

17th December

1983

Christmas concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

19th December

1983


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Howard Williams

7th April 1984 Dvorák Te Deum Wendy Eathorne

(soprano), John

Hancorn (baritone)

London Mozart Players

Leader: John Glickman

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison


26th May 1984 Arr. Vaughan Williams The Old Hundredth Mary Hitch

(soprano), Richard

Morton (tenor), Ian

Reid (bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Brass Ensemble

Michael Frith (organist)

Basilique d'Evron,

France

Derek Harrison

Byrd Ave Verum

Elgar Ave Verum

Parry I Was Glad

Fauré Requiem

23rd June 1984 Purcell Dido and Aeneas Stephanie Allmann,

Eleanor Forbes, Mary

Hitch, Fiona Lamont,

Linda Mcleod

(soprano), Noel

Morton, Marion

Rowlatt, Graham

Trew

Chamber Orchestra

Leader: Peter Pople

John Toll (harpsichord

continuo)

Balls Park

College, Hertford

Derek Harrison

1984/85 20th October 1984 Handel Let God Arise Elisabeth Priday

(soprano), Michael

Chance (counter-

tenor)


Orchestra

Leader: Stefan Bown

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Vivaldi Gloria

15th December

1984

Frith Voices of Innocence

carols

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

17th December

1984


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Howard Williams

30th March 1985 Bach Mass in B minor Jennifer Adams

(soprano), Mary

Lloyd-Davies

(mezzo-soprano),

Maldwyn Davies

(tenor), David

Wilson-Johnson

(bass)

London Bach Orchestra

Leader: Nona Liddell

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

23rd June 1985 Seiber

Hurd

Orff

Yugoslav Folk Songs

Mrs Beeton's Book

Carmina Burana

Tracey Chadwell

(soprano), Derek

Harrison (alto), Peter

Sidhom (baritone)

Patricia Gane and Michael

Frith (piano) Ione

Holbourne (narrator)

Percussion

Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison and

David White

1985/86 26th October 1985 Handel Coronation Anthem (My

Heart is Inditing)

Caroline Fforde

(mezzo-soprano)


Orchestra

Leader: Howard Williams

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Bliss Pastoral (Lie strewn the

white flocks)

14th December

1985

Christmas Concert John Bantick (tenor)

Boys of All Saints’

Church Choir

Hertford Symphony


Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

16th December

1985


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Howard Williams

22nd March 1986 Verdi Requiem Jennifer Adams

(soprano), Mary

Lloyd-Davies

(mezzo-soprano),

Kim Begley (tenor),

John Hancorn (bass)


Leader: Barry Wilde

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

22nd June 1986 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle Sandra Hall

(soprano), Sidonie

Winter (contralto),

Huw Rhys-Evans

(tenor), Andrew

Mayor (bass)

Catherine Riley and

Michael Wise (piano),

Michael Frith

(harmonium)

Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison and

Nicholas Wilks

Palestrina O beata et gloriosa

Trinitas

Adoramus te


1986

Finzi In Terra Pax

carols

Rosemary Harrison

(soprano), Graham

Trew (bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

18th December

1986


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Howard Williams

7th February 1987 Haydn Paukenmesse (Mass in

Time of War)

Tracey Chadwell

(soprano), Alison

Alexander

(contralto), Philip

Salmon (tenor),

David Wilson-

Johnson (baritone)


Orchestra

Leader: Maurice Brett

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Michael Berkeley Or Shall We Die?

21st March 1987 Hurd Mrs Beeton's Book

Haileybury Derek Harrison

Weelkes,

Bennett

Madrigals

Toch Geographical Fugue

Brahms Gypsy songs

11th April 1987 Handel Bring and Sing Messiah Anne Gentry

(soprano), Mary

Hitch (soprano),

Mary Pick (soprano),

Janet Ollier

(soprano), Christine

Ratcliff (alto), Julia

Hastings (alto), Ian

Storey (tenor), Ken

Burgess (bass)

Tim Clarke (trumpet),

Michael Frith (organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

13th June 1987 Handel Coronation Anthem

(Zadok the Priest)

Gillian Fisher

(soprano), Timothy

Penrose (Counter-

tenor), Andrew

Murgatroyd (tenor),

Simon Birchall (bass)

The London Bach

Orchestra

Leader: Nona Liddell

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Handel Utrecht Te Deum

Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm

Bach Cantata No. 191

1987/88 24th October 1987 Haydn The Creation Lucinda Houghton

(soprano), Leigh

Nixon (tenor),

Stephen

Charlesworth (bass)


Orchestra

Leader: Stefan Bown

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

12th December

1987


carols

John Bantick (tenor) Hertford Symphony


Jones

Peter Cousins (organist)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

19th December

1987


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Leader: Madeleine

Whitelaw


Royal Festival

Hall

Noel Long

26th March 1988 Bach St Matthew Passion Gillian Fisher

(soprano), Catherine

Denley (contralto),

Peter Harvey (bass),

Rogers Covey-Crump

(Evangelist), Brian

Kay (Christus)

Tilford Bach Festival

Orchestra

Leaders: Peter Stevens

Juliet Davey

Martin Loveday (continuo)

Richard Coulson (organ)

Members of the North

Herts Youth Choir

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

1st April 1988 Handel Messiah Alison Pearce

(soprano), Rachel

Cooper (alto), Peter

Banber (tenor), Stuart

Fordyce (bass)

Haringey Symphony

Orchestra

Finchley Chamber

Orchestra

Haringey Young

Musicians’ Symphony

Orchestra

John Winter (organ)

Alexandra Palace David Lardi

BCBP

Mixed choirs of 1000

voices

April 1988 To add St Brieuc/Malo

17th May 1988 Handel Coronation Anthems

(Let Thy Hand Be

Strengthened and Zadok

the Priest)

Harlow Youth Orchestra


Harlow Sports

Centre

Derek Harrison

19th June 1988 Palestrina Mass: Aeterna Christi

Munera

Pat Forbes (soprano) Barbican Percussion with

Oliver Hitch (Sound

Engineer)

Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Peter Cousins

(piano)

Derek Harrison

Fanshawe African Sanctus

1988/89 22nd October 1988 Mozart Coronation Mass Donna Deam

(soprano), Susan

Mason (contralto),

Paul Badley (tenor),

Charles Potts (bass)


Orchestra

Leader: Derek Williams

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Rutter Requiem

17th December

1988

Christmas Concert

carols

Kevin O'Donnell

(baritone)

Hertford Symphony


Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

19th December

1988


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Derek

Harrison/Howard

Williams

18th March 1989 Elgar The Music Makers Tracey Chadwell

(soprano), Wendy

Verco (mezzo

soprano)

Young Musicians'

Symphony Orchestra

Leader: Sarah Ewins

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Poulenc Gloria

24th June 1989 Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt

hostes

David Martin-Smith,

David Ireson


Wind Ensemble

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Andrea Quinn

Wesley Ascribe unto the Lord

Bruckner Mass in E minor


1989

Handel Samson Helen Kucharek

(soprano), Nicholas

Clapton (counter-

tenor), Joseph

Cornwell (tenor and

Samson), Robert

Johnston (tenor),

Gordon Jones (bass)

Tilford Bach Festival

Orchestra

Leader: Diana Cummings

Shuna Wilson (continuo

cello), John Toll (continuo

harpsichord)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

4th December

1989


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Peter Stark and

Noel Long

16th December

1989

Christmas Concert

carols

Kevin O'Donnell

(bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

Peter Cousins (organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

7th April 1990 Bruckner Te Deum Julie Kennard

(soprano), Mary King

(mezzo-soprano),

Paul McCann (tenor),

Christopher Keyte

(bass baritone)


Orchestra

Leader: Jeffrey Wakefield

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Tippett A Child of Our Time

30th June 1990 Purcell & Quilter A Shakespeare Sequence Maldwyn Davies

(tenor)


Orchestra

Leader: Stefan Bown

Iain Ledingham (Piano)

Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison

Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest

Bush Twelfth Night

1990/91 3rd November

1990

Brahms Song of Destiny

Alto Rhapsody

Diane Mansfield

(soprano), Kathleen

Smales (contralto),

James Anderson

(tenor), Jeremy White

(bass)


Orchestra

Leader: Stefan Bown

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Stevenage Male

Voice Choir

Rossini Stabat Mater

15th December

1990


carols

Carolyn Cook

(soprano), Ann Gall

(alto), Andrew

Ashford (tenor)

Hertford Symphony


Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

16th December

1990


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Noel Long

8th April 1991 Orff

Carmina Burana Hertfordshire Choirs

Maureen Braithwaite

(soprano), Timothy

Wilson, Robert

Poulton


Youth Orchestra


BCBP

27th April 1991 Haydn Nelson Mass Bronwen Mills

(soprano), Charles

Brett (counter tenor),

Lynton Atkinson

(tenor), Peter Harvey

(baritone)

The Wren Orchestra of

London

Leader: Maurice Brett

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Britten Rejoice in the Lamb

Bernstein Chichester Psalms

15th June 1991 Mozart Bring and Sing Requiem

St Andrew’s

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

29th-30th June 1991 HCS recording Choral Celebration

1991/92 9th November1991 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Catrin Ley (soprano),

Harriet Roberts

(mezzo-soprano),

Jason Balla (tenor),

Andrew Mayor (bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Mark Shanahan

(Derek Harrison)

14th December

1991

Bach Christmas Oratorio Gillian Fisher

(soprano), David

James (counter-

tenor), Rogers

Covey-Crump


(bass)


Leader: John Trusler

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

11th April 1992 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Neil Jenkins (tenor),

Michael George

(bass), Margaret

McDonald

(contralto), Carillon

(semi-chorus)

City of London Sinfonia

Leader: Andrew

Watkinson

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

27th June 1992

Ghislaine Morgan

(soprano), Kevin

O'Donnell (baritone)

Andrew Parnell (organ) All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine

Stanford Te Deum

Three Motets

Durufflé Requiem

Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

1992/93 3rd October 1992 Handel Chandos Anthem No 9 Anabella Tysall,

Derek Harrison, Ralf

Grössler, Paul

Woodmansterne

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison (with

Ralf Grössler

Kantorei of the

Alexanderkirche,

Wildeshausen)

Stanford Two Motets

Haydn Excerpt from The Creation

Handel Excerpt from Messiah

Bach Excerpt from St Matthew

Passion


1992

Mozart Requiem Juliet Schiemann

(soprano), Morag

Boyle (alto), Michael

Sanderson (tenor),

Matthew Brook

(bass)

Hertfordshire Classical

Orchestra

Leader: Diane Terry

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

11th December

1992


(Ernest Read Music

Association, ERMA)


Orchestra

Royal Festival

Hall

Noel Long

19th December

1992

Christmas Concert Ann Lockett

(soprano)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

Michael Frith

(organ/piano)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

3rd April 1993 Bach St John Passion Emma Kirkby

(soprano), James

Huw Jeffries

(counter-tenor), Ian

Bostridge (tenor),

Michael Bundy

(bass), Joseph

Cornwell (tenor),

Jeremy White (bass)


Leader: John Trusler

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

24th April 1993 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius The Aeolian Singers

with members of

HCS

Martyn Hill (tenor),

Ameral Gunson

(mezzo-soprano),


Orchestra

Leader: John Crawford

St Albans Abbey Ian Butler

Brian Rayner-Cook

(baritone)

26th June 1993 Bizet Carmen Shiley Pilgrim

(Micaela), Timothy

Evans-Jones (Don

Jose), David

Stephenson (Zuniga),

Jennifer Higgins

(Carmen), David

Stephenson

(Escamillo)

Opera East

Howard Burrell (narrator)

Children’s chorus,

Hertingfordbury School

Civic Hall,

Broxbourne

Derek Harrison

1993/94

6th November

1993

Schütz Magnificat Deborah York

(soprano), Susanna

Spicer (mezzo-

soprano), Neil

MacKenzie (tenor),

Wei Kat Ong

(baritone)


Orchestra Leader: Diane

Terry

Michael Frith (Continuo)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

CPE Bach Magnificat

Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt

hostes

18th December

1993

Christmas Concert

carols

Kevin O'Donnell

(bass)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

Michael Frith (organ),

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Children of

Hertingfordbury

School

16th April 1994 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony Kate Flowers

(soprano), Graham

Titus baritone)

members of the

Aeolian Singers


Youth Orchestra

Leader: Kathryn

Greenhalgh

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

29th May 1994

Hertford Symphony


Jones

Castle Hall,

Hertford

Derek Harrison

Handel Coronation Anthem

(Zadok the Priest)


Jacob Hertford Suite

Sibelius Finlandia

Verdi and Gounod Three opera choruses

Elgar Chanson de Matin


1994

Britten War Requiem Alison Pearce

(soprano), Ian

Bostridge (tenor),

David Wilson-

Johnson (baritone)

Combined

Hertfordshire Choirs

Symphony Orchestra

(Westminster

Philharmonic) and

Chamber orchestra

(Lambeth Orchestra)

Leaders: Jillian Warburton

and Louise Rowling.

John Winter (organist for

boys’ choir), Alan

Harverson (organist)

Royal Albert Hall Derek Harrison

(symphony orch)

together with the main

choir and soprano

soloist.

Andrew Parnell

(conducting Boys’

Choir Hertfordshire

Schools)

Jonathan Butcher for Lambeth Orchestra

(the chamber

orchestra) Brahms Song of Destiny

17th December

1994

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

1st April 1995 Bach Magnificat in D Janet Fairlie

(soprano), Carys

Lane (contralto),

Ricard Bordas

(counter-tenor),

Lynton Atkinson

(tenor), Paul

Robinson (bass)


Leader: Malcolm Layfield

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Handel Dixit Dominus

29th April 1995 Handel Messiah (Bring and Sing) Louise Hemmings

(soprano), Jeremy

Burrows (alto), Roger

Laurence (tenor),

David Ireson (bass)


Allan Robinson (trumpet),

Francis Beuttler

(percussion)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

24th June 1995

Sarah Miles

(soprano)

Buccinate Brass Ensemble

Leader: Allan Robinson

Richard Tanner (Organ)

Naomi Rudoe (Harp)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Parry I Was Glad

Bruckner Three Motets

Janácek Otcenás

Gorecki Totus Tuus

Rutter Gloria


1995

Schubert Mass in G Margaret Crossland

(soprano), Derek

Harrison (counter-

tenor), Ralf Grossler

(tenor), Andrew

Ashford (tenor),

Kevin O'Donnell

(bass), Simon Gaunt

(bass)


Orchestra

Leader: Diane Terry

All Saints' Church

Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Ralf Grössler

HCS with Kantorei

from Wildeshausen

Purcell Anthems

16th December

1995

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

Maria Noakes (Flute),


Simon Balle School

Harmonics

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

30th March 1996 Barber Prayers of Kierkegaard Lisa Tyrrell

(soprano), Colin

Campbell (baritone)

Hatfield Sinfonia

Leader: Jeffrey Wakefield

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison


19th May 1996

Come and Sing - folk

songs, opera choruses and

traditional choral music

(performed as part of the

Hertford Music Festival)

The lawn of

Hertford Castle

Derek Harrison

29th-30th JUNE

1996

HCS recording Hertford Choral Society >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>

1996/97 26th October 1996 Dvorák Stabat Mater Kantoreiplus Dagmar

Hesse (soprano),

Gritt Gnauck (alto),

Wilfried Jochens

(tenor), Matthias

Gerchen (bass)

Brandenburger Sinfoniker Alexanderkirche,

Wildeshausen,

Germany

Derek Harrison with

Ralf Grössler

HCS with Kantorei

from Wildeshausen

9th November

1996

Dvorák Stabat Mater Elizabeth Woollett

(soprano), Margaret

McDonald (alto),

Andrew Burden


(bass)

Hertfordshire

Philharmonia

Leader: Stuart Walker

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

14th December

1996

Christmas Concert

carols

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra

Leader: Roy Jones

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

3rd May 1997 Walton Belshazzar's Feast Matthew Beale

(tenor), David

Wilson-Johnson

(bass)

Milton Keynes City

Orchestra

Leader: Diana Cummings

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Finzi Intimations of Immortality

21st June 1997

Kevin O'Donnell

(baritone)

Iain Ledingham and

Yoriko Wakabayashi

(piano)

Broxbourne Civic

Hall

Derek Harrison and

Mark Robinson

Elgar, Schubert

Brahms

Stanford

Part songs

Neue Liebeslieder

Songs of the Sea


1997

Vivaldi Gloria Philippa Hyde

(soprano), Jeremy

Burrows (Counter

tenor), Ian Wicks

(tenor), David Ireson

(bass)



Terry

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Haydn Theresienmesse

13th December

1997

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

Eleanor Lovegrove

(trumpet)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Britten A Ceremony of Carols and

carols

4th April 1998 Bach Mass in B minor Jenny Saunders

(soprano), Deborah

Miles-Johnson (alto),

Simon Berridge

(tenor), Michael

Pearce (bass)

Britten Sinfonia Leader:

Pauline Lowbury

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

27th June 1998 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle Sarah Colligan

(soprano), Susan

Marrs (alto), David

Morris (tenor), Kevin

O'Donnell (bass)

Iain Ledingham (piano),

Michael Frith

(harmonium)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Anthony Weedon

Tchaikovsky Cherubic Hymn

Khvalitye Gospoda


1998

Britten Saint Nicolas Robert Johnson

(tenor)

Peter Jaekel (organ) All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Tavener Song for Athene

12th December

1998

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

Mark Robinson (trumpet)

David Senton (narrator)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Rutter Brother Heinrich's

Christmas

Tchaikovsky Two Motets

27th March 1999 Verdi Requiem Christine Bunning

(soprano), Kate

McCarney (Mezzo

soprano), David

Newman (tenor),

Stephen Holloway

(bass)

English Sinfonia Associate

Leader: Sarah Ewins

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

1999/2000 15th October 1999 Mahler Symphony No. 8 Morag Atchison

(soprano), Alison

Pearce (soprano),

Susan Stacey (mezzo-

soprano), Susan

Bickley, (mezzo-

soprano) Ameral

Gunson (mezzo-

soprano), Justin

Lavender (tenor),

David Wilson-

Johnson (baritone),

Stephen Richardson

(bass)

Westminster Philharmonic

Orchestra Leader: Jillian

Warburton

Andrew Parnell (organist)


11th December

1999

Christmas Concert Alexander Ward

(baritone)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas

Carols

Honneger Christmas Cantata

8th April 2000 Mendelssohn Elijah Jane Webster

(soprano), Kathleen

Wilkinson (mezzo

soprano), Justin

Lavender (tenor),

David Wilson-

Johnson (baritone),

Ashley Willmott De-

Win (treble)

English Sinfonia Leader:

Janice Graham

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

24th June 2000

Kenneth Burgess

(baritone)


Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Peter Jenkins

Thompson Alleluia!

Wesley Ascribe unto the Lord

Pärt The Beatitudes

Mozart Ave verum corpus

Haydn Insanae et vanae curae

Achieved is the glorious

work (The Creation)


2000

Mozart Vesperae solennes de

confessore

Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Helen

Withers (alto), Philip

Pooley (tenor),

Eamon Dougan

(bass)



Terry

Anila Milaj (Violin)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Schubert Mass No. 3 in B-flat

16th December

2000

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

Christopher Benham

(organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford


Andrew Morley)

31st March 2001 Bach St Matthew Passion Rogers Covey-

Crump, Jeremy

White, Katy Tansey

(soprano), Charles

Humphries (counter-

tenor), Geraint

Roberts (tenor),

Michael Bundy (bass)


Leader: Jonathan Carney

Josephine Knight

(continuo cello), Harold

Lester (organ)

The Drill Hall,

Ware

Derek Harrison

Boys from All Saints'

Church Choir,

Hertford,

23rd June 2001 Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

Yorkshire Building

Society Band

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Andrew Morley

Derek Broadbent for

YBS Band

Kelly Out of the Deep

Sibelius Finlandia

Brewer Oremi - Nigerian Highlife

Bullard Cantate Gloria


Story


Igor)

Verdi Va, pensiero (Nabucco)

Elgar Pomp and Circumstance

March No. 1

2001/02 3rd November

2001

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Laura Mitchell

(soprano), Derek

Harrison (counter-

tenor), William

Allenby (baritone)

St Cecilia Orchestra

Peter Jaekel and Jonathan

Newell (Piano)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Jason Burcham

Orff Carmina Burana

15th December

2001

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

Peter Jaekel (organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

23rd March 2002 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Julian Gavin

(Gerontius), Ruby

Philogene (mezzo-

soprano), Jiulian

Empett (baritone).


Sarah Ewins

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Angelicals and semi-

chorus from St

Catharine's and

Trinity Colleges,

Cambridge

22nd June 2002

Posy Walton

(soprano)


Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Ralf Grössler

HCS with Kantorei

from Wildeshausen,

Germany Britten Jubilate Deo

Haydn Little Organ Mass

Lotti Crucifixus

Stanford Te Deum in B-flat

Rutter God be in My Head

Walton Coronation Mass

Schütz Lobe den Herren, meine

Seele


2002

Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm

Hertfordshire Baroque

Soloists Leader: Diane

Terry

Gail Hennessy (oboe),


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Handel Coronation Anthems

(Zadok the Priest, My

heart is Inditing, Let Thy

Hand Be Strengthened and

The King Shall Rejoice)

Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's

Desiring

14th December

2002

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

Roy Archer (Reader),

Christopher Benham

(organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Duncombe School

Choir

12th April 2003 Ferguson Amore Langueo Philip Salmon

(tenor), Julian Empett

(baritone)

Britten Sinfonia Leader:

Julian Tear

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Puccini Messa di Gloria

28th June 2003 Schubert Three songs Peter Jaekel and

Nicholas Robinson

(piano)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Elgar From the Bavarian

Highlands

arr. Ken Burton Four gospel choruses

Chilcott Songs and Cries of London

Town


2003

Verdi Requiem Alison Pearce

(soprano), Susan

Bickley (mezzo-

soprano), Justin

Lavender (tenor),

David Wilson-

Johnson (baritone)


Leader: Gillian Warburton


13th December

2003

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

3rd April 2004 Beethoven Mass in C Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Hannah

Mason (mezzo

soprano), Julian

Alexander Smith

(tenor), Timothy

Dawkins (bass)


Janice Graham

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mozart Mass in C minor

26th June 2004 Coombes Summer Serenade (world

première)

New London Orchestra

Leader: Julian Leaper


Pärt Berliner Messe


2004

Dvorák Te Deum Fiona Louise

Campbell (soprano),

Anne Wright

(soprano), Bradley

Daley (tenor), David

Campbell (bass)


Sarah Ewins

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2

11th December

2004

Christmas Concert Kevin O'Donnell

(baritone)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

St Andrew CE

Primary School

Choir

19th March 2005 Handel Messiah Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Timothy

Travers-Brown

(Counter-tenor),

Warren Albers

(tenor), Timothy

Dawkins (bass),



Terry

Peter Jaekel (Organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

28th May 2005 Tippett A Child of Our Time Dominique Thiebaud

(soprano), Christine

Botes (mezzo-

soprano), Philip

Salmon (tenor),

Julian Empett (bass)

Ely Festival Orchestra

Leader: Helen Medlock

Ely Cathedral Derek Harrison and

Andrew Parnell (with

Ely Choral Society)

Jenkins Suite from The Armed

Man - A Mass for Peace

2005/06 8th October 2005 Haydn Bring and Sing The

Creation

Penelope Martin-

Smith (soprano),

Jeremy Budd (tenor),

Ken Burgess (bass)

Martin Penny (organ) All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

19th November

2005

Bernstein Chichester Psalms Philippa Hyde

(soprano), Timothy

Travers-Brown

(counter-tenor),


Thomas Blunt (bass),


Orchestra Leader: Stefan

Bown

Katherine Denton (Cello)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Haydn Nelson Mass

17th December

2005

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holder

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

8th April 2006 Elgar The Kingdom Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Margaret

McDonald (alto),

Philip Salmon

(tenor), Julian Empett

(bass)


Helena Wood

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

15th July 2006 Poulenc Gloria Dominique Thiebaud

(soprano), David

Wilson-Johnson

(baritone)

New London Orchestra

Leader: Julian Leaper

St Albans Abbey Derek Harrison



2006

Mozart Requiem Mary Bevan

(soprano), Lucy

Taylor (Mezzo-

soprano), Mark

Chaundy (tenor),

William Townend

(bass)

Milton Keynes City

Orchestra Leader: Diana

Cummings

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mendelssohn Psalm 95

16th December

2006

Christmas Concert Christopher Benham

(Keyboard)

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

All Saints’

Church, Hertford


Adam Balkwill)

Mill Mead Primary

School Choir

31st March 2007 Handel Laudate Pueri Dominum Julia Doyle

(soprano), Alice

Gribben (soprano),

Timothy Travers-

Brown (counter-

tenor), Nicholas

Mulroy (tenor),

Jonathan Brown

(bass)

London Pro Arte Baroque

Orchestra Leader: Theresa

Caudle

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Bach Cantata No. 191

Cantata No. 156

Magnificat in D

23rd June 2007 Tavener Song for Athene

Peter Jaekel (organ) All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Harwood O How Glorious

Michael Berkeley Love is Strong as Death

Elgar Give Unto the Lord

Mendelssohn Jauchzet dem Herrn

Bullard Cantate Gloria


Stanford The Revenge


2007

Berlioz Grande Messe de Morts Justin Lavender

(tenor)


Leader: Jillian Warburton

Herts County Youth Brass


15th December

2007

Hertford Symphiny

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter Simon

Balle Saxidentals Director:

Clare Taylor) Christopher

Benham (keyboard)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Chaplin The Mystery of Christmas

(world première)

Harrold A Merry Christmas (world

première)

15th March 2008 Haydn The Creation Elizabeth Weisburg

(soprano), Richard

Rowntree (tenor),

Philip Tebb (bass)

London Pro Arte Orchestra

Leader: Robert Salter

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

21st June 2008

Yorkshire Building

Society Brass band

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Morgan Griffiths

Parry Blest Pair of Sirens


(Zadok the Priest)

Puccini Humming Chorus (Madam

Butterfly)

Verdi Grand March from Aida

Arr. Brewer Mangwani mpulele

(Sotho children's song)

Mascagni The Easter Hymn

(Cavalleria Rusticana)

Simon and Kaplan Harmony

Sibelius Finlandia

Parry Jerusalem


2008

Purcell Welcome to All the

Pleasures

Rebecca Outram

(soprano), Timothy

Travers-Brown

(counter-tenor),


Stuart Young (bass)



Terry

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Come Ye Sons of Art

Handel Dettingen Te Deum

13th December

2008

Christmas Concert

Hertford Symphony

Orchestra Leader:

Margaret Holter

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Bengeo School

Chamber Choir

4th April 2009 Elgar The Music Makers Janet Shell (mezzo

soprano), Andrew

Mayor (baritone)

London Pro Arte Orchestra

Guest Leader: John

Bradbury

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Duruflé Requiem

27th June 2009

John Langley Peter Jaekel (organ) All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

arr. Shepherd Three folksongs (Sweet

Nightingale, Sally

Gardens, Dashing Away)

Basford Two folk songs (The Rose,

Stars trembling o’er us)

(world première)

Coombes Summer Serenade

Rodgers and

Hammerstein

Selection of songs

Abrens/Flaherty New Music

Burks and Gardner Misty

2009/10

19th October and

8th November

HCS recording New Music

12th December

2009

Christmas Concert

Eleanor Lovegrove

(trumpet), Peter Jaekel

(organ and piano)

Bob Harding-Jones

(cómpère)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Morgans Primary

School Choir

27th March 2010 Bach St John Passion Emilia Hughes

(soprano), Jeremy

Budd (tenor;

Evangelist), Timothy

Travers-Brown

(counter-tenor),

Christopher Adams

(bass, Christ), Robert

Rice (bass, Pilate)

Brandenburg Sinfonia

Leader: Susanna Candlin

Julia Desbrulais (cello

continuo), Peter Jaekel

(organ continuo)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

26th June 2010

Shearing

Puccini

Bach

Mendelssohn

Handel

Jobim

trad.

Fanshawe

Marley

trad. calypso

trad. calypso

Steel Band and Voices

Together

Songs and sonnets

Humming Chorus (Madam

Butterfly)

Jesu, joy of man’s desiring

For He shall give His

angels (Elijah)

Hallelujah Chorus

(Messiah)

The Girl from Ipanema

Scarborough Fair

Lord’s Prayer (Afrian

Sanctus)

No Woman, No Cry

Linstead Market

Mango Walk

Blue Steel Band

Derek Harrison

Mark Cherrie, Blue

Steel Band


2010

Rutter Requiem Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Jeremy

Burrows (alto), James

Featherstone (tenor),

Stephen Pledger

Jones (bass)

Chameleon Arts Orchestra

Leader: Simon Baggs

Jonathan Peter Eyre

(organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mozart Vesperae solennes de

confessore

11th December

2010

Natasha Page

(soprano)

Helen Twomey (electric

violin), Christopher

Muhley (piano/organ),

Roger Mullis (cómpère)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mill Mead Primary

School Choir

Mendelssohn

Handel

There Shall a Star

Excerpts from Messiah

Dorling/Harrison/Char

pentier

Merrily the angels sing!

2nd April 2011 Dyson Agincourt Katie Bray (mezzo-

soprano)

Brandenburg Sinfonia

Leader: Mihkel Kerem


All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Jenkins Stabat Mater

25th June 2011

National Saxophone Choir

of Great Britain

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Nigel Wood

Elgar From The Bavarian

Highlands

Lauridson Dirait-on (Les Chansons

des Roses)


(Zadok the Priest)

Elgar The Spirit of the Lord

Orff O Fortuna (Carmina

Burana)

Lotti Crucifixus

Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileiras No.

5

Chilcott Singing by Numbers


Story


2011

Rutter Gloria Kate Symonds-Joy

(soprano)


Leader: Simon Baggs

Elizabeth Shepherd

(Piano), Peter Jaekel

(Organ)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Lambert Rio Grande

Bruckner Ecce Sacerdos

Gastoldi A suite of Renaissance

songs and dances

10th December

2011

Nicholas Robinson (piano

and organ), Paul Mayes

(trumpet), Roger Mullis

(cómpère)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Choir of

Hertingfordbury

Cowper Primary

School Rutter Down in Yon Forest

Mathias Sir Christèmas

Shaw Fanfare (Gloria in

Excelsis)

Ord Adam Lay Ybounden

Scheidt A Child is Born

Hewitt/Bloor The Ragtime Carol

31st March 2012 Handel Israel in Egypt Capucine Daumas

(soprano), Bryony

Soothill (soprano),

Isabel Biggs (alto),

Oliver Martin-Smith

(tenor), Robert Clark

(bass), Jevan

McAuley (bass)

The Brandenburg Sinfonia

Leader:Mihkel Kerem

Peterr Twitchin (keyboard

continuo)

All Saints Church,

Hertford

Derek Harrison

23rd June 2012

Andrew Parnell

(Organ)

Hammonds Saltaire Band

Andrew Parnell (organ)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison with

Morgan Griffiths

Parry I Was Glad

Elgar Great is the Lord

Walton Coronation Te Deum

Verdi Opera choruses

Trad. British Sea Songs

Holst I Vow to Thee My Country

(Jupiter, Planet Suite)

Harwood O How Glorious is the

Kingdom

Williamson Jubiliee Hymn


March No. 1

Parry Jerusalem


2012

Blackford Mirror of Perfection Emma Tring

(soprano), Stephen

Charlesworth

(baritone)


Leader: Simon Baggs

Peter Ruffles (reader)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Fauré Requiem

15th December

2012

Paul Mayes

(Trumpet), Natasha

Page (soprano),

Christopher Benham

(organ), Roger Mullis

(cómpère)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

The Bengeo School

Choir

Fletcher Ring out wild bells

Blackford A Lullaby of the Nativity

Chaplin In the Bleak Midwinter

Handel Choruses from Samson

23rd March 2013 Mendelssohn Elijah Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Hannah

Mason (mezzo

soprano), Nicholas

Sharratt (tenor),

William O'Brien

(treble), Michael

Pearce (bass)

Bartholdy Chamber

Orchestra Leader: ????

Peter Jaekel (Organ)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

22nd June 2013

Sounds Aloud Percussion

Ensemble Graham Instrall,

Daniella Ganeva, Emily

Gunton, Derek Scurll

Sue Graham-Smith (piano)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Pachabel/Dorling Canon

Bach Excerpt from St John

Passion

Gounod/Bach Ave Maria

Shaw Six Shakespeare Songs

Instrall Chasm

Bach Bourrée

Britten Down by the Salley

Gardens

Backer, Cook &

Greenaway

I'd like to teach the world

to sing

Lennon & McCartney Beatles’ numbers

Orff Excerpts from Carmina

Burana


2013

Britten St Nicolas Philip Salmon

(tenor), Dominique

Thiébaud (soprano),

William O'Brien (boy

Nicolas), Michael

Pachman-Bates,

Hugh Reid and

Stephen Curley

(pickled boys)

Amadeus Chamber

Orchestra Leader: Jennifer

Wigram

Simon Haynes and John

Reid (piano), Peter Jaekel

(organ)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Haydn Little Organ Mass

14th December

2013

Catherine Evison

(saxophone), Christopher

Benham (organ and piano),

Roger Mullis (cómpère)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

The Bax Choir,

Heath Mount School

Sweelinck Hodie

Willcocks In excelsis gloria

Birthday Carol

Todd My Lord has Come

Bortniansky Christmas Canticle

5th April 2014 Bach Mass in B minor Grace Davidson

(soprano), Timothy

Travers-Brown (alto),

Nick Madden (tenor),

Colin Campbell

(bass)


Leader: Simon Baggs

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

28th June 2014

Sarah Dacey

(soprano)

Chris Eldred (Piano), Loz

Garratt (bass), Dave Elliott

(drums)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Todd Mass in Blue

arr. Chilcott Jazz Folk Songs


2014

Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Leandros

Taliotis (baritone)


Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem

Ireland Greater love hath no man

than this

Tavener Song for Athene

Stanford Evening Canticles in G

major

13th December

2014

Howells,

Willcocks

Hewitt/Bloor

trad.

Charpentier /Harrison/

Dorling

Here is the little door

Resonemus laudibus

The Ragtime Carol

Gaudete

Merrily the angels sing!

Roger Mullis

(Compere), Nicholas

Robinson (organ and

piano),

Broxbourne Handbell

Ringers (conductor: John

Thompson)

Sally Quatrille (flute)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Duncombe School

Choir

28th March 2015 Brahms A German Requiem Claire Seaton

(soprano), Gareth

Brynmor John

(baritone)


Leader: Simon Baggs


Schubert Stabat Mater

20th June 2015

Accordion5 Director: Ian

Watson Director

Sue Graham Smith (piano)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Bizet Toreador Song (Carmen)

Monnot Hymne à l'amour

Trenet La Mer

Rutter A Sprig of Thyme

Instrall Bless the Lord

Mozart Ave Verum (Requiem)

Dies Irae (Requiem)


Langlais Sanctus, Benedictus

(Messe Solennelle)

Gershwin Summertime (Porgy and

Bess)

Porter Night and Day

Gershwin I got plenty o’ nuttin’

(Porgy and Bess)

Schönberg Do you hear the people

sing? (Les Miserables)

Flowers/Cook/

Greenaway

Bannerman

Piazzolla Libertango


2015

Handel Messiah Natasha Page

(soprano), Ian

Aitkenhead (counter-

tenor), Mark

Chaundy (tenor),

James Gower (bass)



Terry

Sue Graham Smith (organ

continuo)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

12th December

2015

Britten A Ceremony of Carols

Elizabeth bass (harp),

Christopher Muhley (piano

and organ), Roger Mullis

(cómpère)

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Mill Mead Primary

School Choir

Kauffman African Noel

19th March 2016 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Adrian Thompson

(tenor, Gerontius),

Rebecca Afonwy-

Jones (mezzo

soprano, Angel),

David Wilson-

Johnson (baritone,

Priest and Angel of

the Agony),


Leader: Simon Baggs

All Saints'

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Voix de Vivre semi

chorus

25th-26th June 2016 HCS recording Their sound is gone out

2016/17 5th November 2016 Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle Katherine Crompton

(soprano), Kate

Symonds-Joy

(mezzo-soprano),

Daniel Joy (tenor),

Edward Grint (bass)

Sue Graham smith (piano),

Anne Page (harmonium)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

10th December

2016

Linwood

Fletcher

Coombes

Bortniansky

Glad Tidings

Ring out, wild bells

Nova, nova

Glory to God in the

highest

James Gower (bass) Christopher Muhley

(piano/organ), Roger

Mullis (cómpère)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

St Joseph's In the

Park School Choir

1st April 2017 Haydn Nelson Mass

Te Deum in C

Insanae et vanae curae

Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Lucy

Taylor (mezzo-

soprano), Caspar

Singh (tenor), Julian

Godlee (bass)


Leader: Simon Baggs

Paul Mayes (trumpet),

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

24th June 2017 Black Dyke Band

Principal Conductor:

Professor Nicholas Childs

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison


(Zadok the Priest)

Thompson Alleluia

Copland Simple Gifts

Long Time Ago

Ching-a-Ring Chaw

Parry I Was Glad

Jenkins Sanctus (The Armed Man)

Chilcott The Same Sun Shine

The Lily and the Rose

Verdi Va, pensiero (Nabucco)


March No 1


2017

McDowall

Mozart

Magnificat

Requiem

Katy Hill (soprano),

Clare McCaldin

(mezzo), Jeremy

Budd (tenor), Alex

Ashworth (bass)


Leader: Simon Blendis

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

16th December

2017

Wells

Pearsall, Westbrook

Moore

Ord

trad., arr. Austin

Humphries

Mendelssohn

Handel

Corp

arr. Althouse

Rejoice and be glad

In dulci jubilo

Lady I sing to thee

Adam Lay Ybounden

The twelve days of

Christmas

Rejoice and be glad

Joy to the World

Excerpts from A Christmas

Mass

Merry Christmas, Mozart

Christopher Muhley


Mullis (cómpère)

Dagmara Jones (French

horn)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

24th March 2018 Bernstein

Janácek

Rutter

Chichester Psalms

Otcenás

Requiem

Natasha Page

(soprano), Dominic

Bevan (tenor),

Peter Jaekel (organ), Alex

Rider (harp), Graham

Instrall (percussion)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

9th June 2018 Vaughan Williams

Sumsion

A Sea Symphony

They that go down to the

sea in ships

Sarah Fox (soprano),

Robert Gildon

(baritone),


Leader: Simon Baggs

Sue Graham Smith (piano)

Marnus Greyling (organ)

St Albans

Cathedral

Derek Harrison

2018/19 3rd November 2018 Handel Messiah Alexandra Kidgell

(soprano), Clare

McCaldin (alto),

Oliver White (tenor),

James Cleverton

(bass)

Camerata of London All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

15th December

2018

Kauffman

Gardner

Pettman

Harold Chaplin

Harold Chaplin

Cornelius

Vaughan Williams

Mathias

Sing a joyful song of

Christmas

Tomorrow shall be my

dancing day

I saw a maiden sitten and

sing

Simple Babe

The Holly and the ivy

Three Kings


Carols

Sir Christèmas

James Gower (bass) Christopher Muhley


Mullis (cómpère)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

30th March 2019 Verdi Requiem Fiona Hammacott

(soprano), Margaret

McDonald

(contralto), Tom

Raskin (tenor), Alan

Fairs (bass)


Leader: Simon Baggs

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

29th June 2019 Bizet

Trad. Calypso

Bach

Bach/Gounod

John Rutter

Arr. Derek Harrison

Mozart

Mendelssohn

Flowers/Cook/

Greenaway

Sheila

Dorling/Malcolm

Dorling

Schönberg

Jobim

Fanshawe

Marley

trad. calypso

trad. Calypso

Piazolla

Toreador Song (Carmen)

Calypso Caribbean

Jesu, joy of man’s desiring

Ave Maria

Gloria

Scarborough Fair

Dies Irae (Requiem)

For He shall give His

angels

The Banner Man

The HCS Song (world

première)

Do you hear the people

sing? (Les Miserables)

The Girl from Ipanema

Lord’s Prayer (African

Sanctus)

No Woman, No Cry

Linstead Market

Mango Walk

Libertango

Accordion5 (Director: Ian

Watson)

Blue Steel (Director Mark

Cherrie)

All Saints’

Church, Hertford

Derek Harrison

Documents

22nd March 1941 Coleridge-Taylor 10th May 1941 · Stephen Wilkinson Kodály Missa Brevis Wesley Carmen Funèbre 1952/53 28th March 1953 Bach St. Matthew Passion Andrew Gold (tenor)