Forthcoming Concert
60th Anniversay Concert
Our next concert will be held on Saturday 6 July 2024 at St George’s Church, Chesterfield Road, Cambridge CB4 1LN
We will be singing a selection of CCS favourites from previous years.
Past Concerts
20 Mar 2024
- Victoria: O vos omnes
- Drury: By the waters of Babylon
- Buxtehude: Ad pectus
- Bruckner Christus factus est
- J S Bach: Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
6 Dec 2023
Vivaldi’s Gloria and other seasonal favourites
12 Jul 2023
Our ‘It’s a Grand Night for Singing’ summer concert included the following programme and two poems written by our own Ian Whybrow and read by Ian and fellow choir member Margaret Ingram.
- Sumer is acumen in Anon
- In these delightful pleasant groves Purcell
- In the merry spring Ravenscroft
- Linden Lea RVW, arr. Somervell
- Bluebird Stanford
- Diaphenia Stanford
- As torrents in summer Elgar
- O what a beautiful morning R&H, arr. Stickles
- Some enchanted evening R&H, arr. Stickles
- It’s a Grand Night for Singing R&H, arr. Stickles
- Summertime Gershwin, arr. Stickles
- If ever I would leave you Lerner, arr. Yoder
- We’ll gather lilacs Novello, arr. Derbyshire
- Over the rainbow Arlen, arr. Chinn
- All the things you are Kern, arr. Stickles
- As time goes by Hupfeld, arr. Robinson
22 Mar 2023
Several soloist joined the choir for our concert on 22 March 2023 at St Andrew’s Church, Chesterton, where we were also accompanied by the church organ.
- Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
- John Taverner: Song for Athene
- Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
- WA Mozart: Ave verum corpus
- Felix Mendelssohn: Hear my Prayer
- Lili Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique
8 Dec 2019
A ceremony of carols
21 Jul 2019
A Life on the Ocean Waves. Excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” and other Sea related songs.
7 Apr 2019
Fauré’s Requiem, and other well-loved items
9 Dec 2018
Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind – seasonal music including Let it Snow! and Winter Wonderland.
14 Jul 2018
¡Viva la Musica! A joint concert with the Cambridge Concert Orchestra and part of the Chesterton Festival.
15 Apr 2018
Stanford’s Canterbury Pilgrims
3 Dec 2017
Christmas Around The World
- Charpentier Midnight Mass for Christmas
- Carols from Europe, America, and Asia
- Chestnuts Roasting over an Open Fire
- Mary had a Baby
16 Jul 2017
Animal Magic
The Hippopotamus Song
Rolling Down to Rio
Old McDonald Had a Farm
3 Apr 2017
Let There Be Light –
Including a wide range of pieces from Lauridson’s Lux Aeterna and Haydn’s The Heavens are Telling through to Walking on Sunshine (and beyond!)
25 Jun 2016
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Joint concert with the City Singers, a children’s community choir
- Andrew Carter – Benedicite
- Burns – My love is like a red red rose
- Beatles – Yellow Submarine
19 Mar 2016
La Belle France
- Duruflé – Requiem
- Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
- Schönberg & Kretzmer – Les Misérables
12 Dec 2015
The Magic Piper
- Quintus Benziger – The Magic Piper
Words adapted from Browning – The Pied Piper of Hamelin,
Music adapted from Mozart – The Magic Flute - Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
- Berlioz – The Shepherds’ Farewell
- Gruber – Silent Night
21 Jun 2015
Summer Serenade
Part of Chesterton Festival!
- Webber – Music of the night
- Gershwin – Summertime
- Fauré – Such a night (Pavane)
14 Mar 2015
A Call for Peace
Jenkins – The Armed Man, with other songs of peace