The 2025 – 2026 season will be The Bach Choir’s 150th anniversary. In this article we’ll look back at our history and hear what our current Musical Director David Hill has to say about it all. We were initially formed back in 1876 to sing the world premiere of Bach’s
In our last concert, Belshazzar’s Feast, on Thursday 8 May at the Royal Festival Hall, we travelled around the world with music from three fine British composers, stopping off in Ancient Babylon, Norway and Barcelona. It was certainly a ‘wild party’, as The Times called it! The evening started with
Ivor Novello-winning composer Richard Blackford last gave a world premiere with us back in 2021, with Vision of a Garden. It was an enormously emotional occasion – the piece was based around our own singer Peter’s battle with COVID-19 – thankfully, Peter sang the work with us on that day
Sometimes, composers create something that goes far beyond the scope of their original brief. One famous example of this was Belshazzar’s Feast by William Walton, which was composed in 1931 after it was commissioned by the BBC. In this video, our Musical Director David Hill explains how Belshazzar’s Feast went
Ivor Novello-winning composer Richard Blackford has proved himself to be a force to be reckoned with in recent years – his COVID-inspired Vision of a Garden was hailed as a “highly commendable recording” by Gramophone and his recent Verdi Requiem arrangement and recording were met with similar acclaim. But composing isn’t
Andrew J Boyle is a renowned expert on Delius – he’s even got a PhD in the composer and his works. In his book, Delius and Norway, the author and podcaster looks at the vital role that this beautiful country came to play in Delius’ works. Ahead of performing Delius’