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NCS Christmas Concert
Sunday 15th December 2024, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

NCS Christmas Concert

Join NCS for an evening of Christmas carols and anthems. Get yourself in the seasonal spirit with popular and much loved Christmas music. Warm up your vocal cords, raise the roof and sing along with the choir.

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NCS Spring Season Concert
Saturday 12th April 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

Professional orchestra and soloists.

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Our 2024 - 2025 Season of Concerts

On Saturday 13th April 2024 we returned to a choir favourite, Mozart’s Requiem, which we last performed it in 2013. It was a wonderful evening of music, with a large appreciative audience, stunning soloists and orchestra.

Our last concert was at the wonderful Douai Abbey, where sang Great Cathedral Anthems, a collection of popular anthems including  by Bairstow, Beach, Dove, Elgar, Parry, Wesley and many others.

On Saturday 2nd November our short Autumn season concert was Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem , at St Nicolas church, Newbury. It was a wonderful evening, stunning soloists and Sue and Steve were amazing playing the Steinway grand piano.

On Sunday the 15th December we will perform our Christmas concert featuring a rich selection of traditional and well loved carols. The programme will feature carols sung a capella and with the church organ, expertly played by Steve Bowey.  We will also be joined by soprano and alto soloists. A number of the carols will have the audience join the choir to raise the roof. 

In 2025, our Spring Season will be Elgar's Dream of Gerontius which we will be performing at St Nicolas Church, Newbury on the 12th April, with professional orchestra and soloists. Because the work is so big it is rarely performed locally so not to be missed. It is safe to say it is going to be a fantastic evening of music.

Please don't forget NCS has details of its entire back catalogue of performances which can be searched by date, work, composer and conductor. It even has details of the professional and choir soloists and orchestras along with concert reviews and concert programmes in PDF format. The earliest programme available is 1905. Click here to access the database.

Concert Diary

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Sunday 15th December 2024, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

NCS Christmas Concert 
Join NCS for an evening of Christmas carols and anthems. Get yourself in the seasonal spirit with popular and much loved Christmas music. Warm up your vocal cords, raise the roof and sing along with the choir.
*Gauntlett - Once in Royal David’s city
arr. Willcocks - As with gladness men of old
Kirkpatrick - Away in a manger
Rutter - Nativity Carol
arr. Willcocks - Deck the hall
Wood - Ding dong! Merrily on high
Arr. Willcocks - God rest ye merry gentlemen
arr. Willcocks - Good King Wenceslas
arr. Willcocks - I saw three ships come sailing in
Darke - In the bleak midwinter
Arr. Sullivan - It came upon the midnight clear
*Mendelssohn - Hark the herald

- interval -

*arr. RVW/Armstrong - O little town of Bethlehem
Arr. Tobin - Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Praetorius - Lo! How a rose e'er blooming
*Arr. Helmore/Willcocks - O come, O come Emmanuel
arr. Willcocks - Of the Father's heart begotten
arr. Ledger - Still, still, still
Poston - Jesus Christ the apple tree
Cornelius arr. - Atkins The Three Kings
Arr. Willcocks - Unto us is born a son
Willcocks - Kings of Orient
*Gibbs - While shepherds watched
*Arr. Willcocks - O come all ye faithful

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Saturday 12th April 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

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Saturday 28th June 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

NCS Summer Season Concert

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Saturday 29th November 2025, 7:30pm, Douai Abbey

Advent Concert

Concert Reviews

Well rehearsed by their conductor, Cathal Garvey, it showed enthusiasm alongside technical competence - and everyone seemed to be enjoying singing. In the Adoration of the Wise Men the men must be congratulated for their singing in many parts - very few choral societies could achieve this with such confidence... View full review

Julia Rowntree

Newbury Weekly News

Concert Reviews

A challenge for any choir, this five movement piece gave each section the chance to shine (there were some lovely blended sounds from the tenor section)... View full review

Fiona Bennett

Newbury Weekly News

Concert Reviews

This atmospheric work was performed with great style, skill and enjoyment by the choir, orchestra and soloists and was conducted with flare and sensitivity by Cathal Garvey. Newbury Choral Society have never sounded better. With the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and these three fine soloists the combination was a winning one... View Full Review

Derick Ansell

Newbury Weekly News

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We split our year into three seasons, spring, summer and winter, where we rehearse the programme and perform it at an end-of season concert. We mainly have two concert venues, St Nicolas Church, Newbury and Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, the latter used for the summer season.

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