Recent highlights

Our most recent concert brought back very proud memories for some of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus's longest standing members. A handful of our singers, who recorded Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius in 1964 for EMI records, are took part in a performance of the same piece in November 2010 with the Hallé Orchestra, under James Burton.

The 2009-10 season contained several performances in Sheffield City Hall, culminating in a performance of Brahms’s wonderful German Requiem. Our latest CD was recently released, and this season also saw a performance in Birmingham recorded for DVD, as well as a BBC radio broadcast. The chorus also performed with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in the world-touring Star Wars in Concert events, narrated by Anthony Daniels (C3PO) and featuring John Williams' classic scores and footage from all six films. The chorus participated in concerts in Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle.

Other recent highlights include a contribution to the 2008 Prom concerts, a broadcast performance in Manchester of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Edward Downes, performances of Verdi’s Requiem in both Leeds and Manchester under Gianandrea Noseda, two performances of Rachmaninov’s The Bells with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and broadcasts of Shostakovich’s Symphony no.13 from Manchester, Brahms’s German Requiem from Leeds, and Delius’s Sea Drift from Bradford. Few in the chorus will forget the choir’s two performances of Rachmaninov’s unaccompanied Vespers, in Sheffield Cathedral and in Lincoln Cathedral.