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
1944/45 7th December
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
1946/47 14th December
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
1948/49 16th December
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
Fantasia on Christmas
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
1951/52 11th December
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),
Noel Morton (tenor),
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)
1954/55 16th December
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),
Noel Morton (tenor),
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)
Chorus and Orchestra of
Hitchin & District Musical
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)
Chorus and Orchestra of
Hitchin & District Musical
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
1958/59 20th December
1958
Purcell O Sing unto the Lord Anne Denyar
(soprano), Winifred
Leaper (contralto),
Noel Morton (tenor),
Gordon Farrell (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of
Hitchin & District Musical
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
1959/60 19th December
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),
Noel Morton (tenor),
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
Leader: David Thompson
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
Leader: David Thompson
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
Leader: David Thompson
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
The Hertford Orchestra
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
Brahms A German Requiem
11th May 1968 Bach Cantata No.150
The Hertford Orchestra
Leader: Hugh Wright
Richard Hale
School, Hertford
Clifton Kelynack
Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs
Jacob Old Wine in New Bottles
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
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
Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince
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)
Leader: J Bransby Roberts
Jean Taverner (organ)
Christ's Hospital
School, Hertford
Clifton Kelynack
Fauré Requiem
6th May 1972 Beethoven Choral Fantasia
The Hertford Orchestra
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
Leader: J Bransby Roberts
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
1974/75 13th December
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)
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
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
1975/76 29th November
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
1976/77 10th December
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
Brahms A German Requiem
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
Jean Taverner (organ)
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Howard Williams
Haydn Paukenmesse (Mass in
Time of War)
1977/78 17th December
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)
Jean Taverner (organ)
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
Orchestra
Leader: John Phillips
Castle Hall,
Hertford
Derek Harrison
1978/79 16th December
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
Jean Taverner (organ)
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
Jean Taverner (organ)
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
1979/80 15th December
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
Hatfield Philharmonic
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
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
Jean Taverner (organ)
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
Jean Taverner (piano)
Broxbourne Civic
Hall
Derek Harrison
Britten Choral Dances from
Gloriana
Jacob Highways
1981/82 12th December
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
Jean Taverner (organ)
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)
Hertfordshire County
Youth Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall Meredith Davies
14th May 1982 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Penelope Walker
(mezzo-soprano),
Kenneth Bowen
(tenor), Michael
Rippon (bass)
Ernest Read Symphony
Orchestra
Alan Haverson (organ)
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
1982/83 6th November
1982
Mozart Requiem Susan Bullock
(soprano), Ann Gall
(alto), Nigel Robson
(tenor), Lawrence
Wallington (bass)
Hertfordshire Chamber
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
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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
Jean Taverner (piano)
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
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
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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
Brahms A German Requiem
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
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
Jean Taverner (organ)
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
17th December
1984
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
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
Orchestra Leader: Roy
Jones
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
16th December
1985
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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)
London Mozart Players
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
1986/87 13th December
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
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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)
Hatfield Philharmonic
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
Orchestra
Leader: Stefan Bown
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
12th December
1987
Handel Excerpts from Messiah
carols
John Bantick (tenor) Hertford Symphony
Orchestra Leader: Roy
Jones
Peter Cousins (organist)
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
19th December
1987
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
Orchestra
Leader: Madeleine
Whitelaw
Alan Haverson (organ)
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
Michael Frith (organ)
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
Orchestra
Leader: Derek Williams
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
Rutter Requiem
17th December
1988
Christmas Concert
carols
Kevin O'Donnell
(baritone)
Hertford Symphony
Orchestra Leader: Roy
Jones
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
19th December
1988
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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
London Mozart Players
Wind Ensemble
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison with
Andrea Quinn
Wesley Ascribe unto the Lord
Bruckner Mass in E minor
1989/90 11th November
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
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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)
Hatfield Philharmonic
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
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)
Hertfordshire Chamber
Orchestra
Leader: Stefan Bown
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
Stevenage Male
Voice Choir
Rossini Stabat Mater
15th December
1990
Handel Excerpts from Messiah
carols
Carolyn Cook
(soprano), Ann Gall
(alto), Andrew
Ashford (tenor)
Hertford Symphony
Orchestra Leader: Roy
Jones
All Saints’
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
16th December
1990
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
Orchestra
Royal Festival
Hall
Noel Long
8th April 1991 Orff
Carmina Burana Hertfordshire Choirs
Maureen Braithwaite
(soprano), Timothy
Wilson, Robert
Poulton
Hertfordshire County
Youth Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall Meredith Davies
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
(tenor), Jeremy White
(bass)
London Bach Orchestra
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
1992/93 7th November
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
Family Christmas Concert
(Ernest Read Music
Association, ERMA)
Ernest Read Symphony
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)
London Bach Orchestra
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),
Ernest Read Symphony
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)
Hertfordshire Classical
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
Hertfordshire County
Youth Orchestra
Leader: Kathryn
Greenhalgh
All Saints'
Church, Hertford
Derek Harrison
29th May 1994
Hertford Symphony
Orchestra Leader: Roy
Jones
Castle Hall,
Hertford
Derek Harrison
Handel Coronation Anthem
(Zadok the Priest)
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
Jacob Hertford Suite
Sibelius Finlandia
Verdi and Gounod Three opera choruses
Elgar Chanson de Matin
1994/95 13th November
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
Michael Frith (organ)
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)
London Bach Orchestra
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)
Michael Frith (organ),
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
1995/96 4th November
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)
Hertfordshire Classical
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),
Michael Frith (organ),
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
Brahms A German Requiem
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
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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
(tenor), Jeremy White
(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
1997/98 8th November
1997
Vivaldi Gloria Philippa Hyde
(soprano), Jeremy
Burrows (Counter
tenor), Ian Wicks
(tenor), David Ireson
(bass)
Hertfordshire Classical
Orchestra Leader: Diane
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
1998/99 7th November
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)
Royal Albert Hall Derek Harrison
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)
Peter Jaekel (organ) All Saints’
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)
2000/01 4th November
2000
Mozart Vesperae solennes de
confessore
Fiona Hammacott
(soprano), Helen
Withers (alto), Philip
Pooley (tenor),
Eamon Dougan
(bass)
Hertfordshire Classical
Orchestra Leader: Diane
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
Derek Harrison (with
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)
London Bach Orchestra
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
Bernstein Songs from West Side
Story
Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince
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).
English Sinfonia Leader:
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)
Peter Jaekel (organ) All Saints’
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
2002/03 16th November
2002
Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm
Hertfordshire Baroque
Soloists Leader: Diane
Terry
Gail Hennessy (oboe),
Peter Jaekel (organ)
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
2003/04 16th November
2003
Verdi Requiem Alison Pearce
(soprano), Susan
Bickley (mezzo-
soprano), Justin
Lavender (tenor),
David Wilson-
Johnson (baritone)
Westminster Philharmonic
Leader: Gillian Warburton
Royal Albert Hall Derek Harrison
13th December
2003
Christmas Concert
Hertford Symphony
Orchestra Leader:
Margaret Holter
Michael Frith (organ)
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)
English Sinfonia Leader:
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
All Saints’ Church Derek Harrison
Pärt Berliner Messe
2004/05 13th November
2004
Dvorák Te Deum Fiona Louise
Campbell (soprano),
Anne Wright
(soprano), Bradley
Daley (tenor), David
Campbell (bass)
English Sinfonia Leader:
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),
Hertfordshire Baroque
Soloists Leader: Diane
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),
Jeremy Budd (tenor),
Thomas Blunt (bass),
Hertfordshire Chamber
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)
English Sinfonia Leader:
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
Brahms A German Requiem
2006/07 4th November
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
Derek Harrison (with
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
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Stanford The Revenge
2007/08 4th November
2007
Berlioz Grande Messe de Morts Justin Lavender
(tenor)
Westminster Philharmonic
Leader: Jillian Warburton
Herts County Youth Brass
Royal Albert Hall Derek Harrison
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
Handel Coronation Anthem
(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
2008/09 15th November
2008
Purcell Welcome to All the
Pleasures
Rebecca Outram
(soprano), Timothy
Travers-Brown
(counter-tenor),
Jeremy Budd (tenor),
Stuart Young (bass)
Hertfordshire Baroque
Soloists Leader: Diane
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
2010/11 13th November
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
Peter Jaekel (organ)
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)
Handel Coronation Anthem
(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
Bernstein Songs from West Side
Story
2011/12 12th November
2011
Rutter Gloria Kate Symonds-Joy
(soprano)
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance
March No. 1
Parry Jerusalem
2012/13 10th November
2012
Blackford Mirror of Perfection Emma Tring
(soprano), Stephen
Charlesworth
(baritone)
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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
2013/14 9th November
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)
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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
2014/15 8th November
2014
Fiona Hammacott
(soprano), Leandros
Taliotis (baritone)
Peter Jaekel (organ) All Saints’
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)
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
Leader: Simon Baggs
All Saints’ Church Derek Harrison
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)
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
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
2015/16 7th November
2015
Handel Messiah Natasha Page
(soprano), Ian
Aitkenhead (counter-
tenor), Mark
Chaundy (tenor),
James Gower (bass)
Hertfordshire Baroque
Soloists Leader: Diane
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),
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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)
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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
Handel Coronation Anthem
(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)
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance
March No 1
2017/18 10th November
2017
McDowall
Mozart
Magnificat
Requiem
Katy Hill (soprano),
Clare McCaldin
(mezzo), Jeremy
Budd (tenor), Alex
Ashworth (bass)
London Mozart Players
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
(piano/organ), Roger
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),
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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
Fantasia on Christmas
Carols
Sir Christèmas
James Gower (bass) Christopher Muhley
(piano/organ), Roger
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)
Chameleon Arts Orchestra
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