Coronation Concert

A concert to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 in her Platinum Jubilee Year with the choral music from the 1953 Coronation. On Saturday 21 May at St Mary’s Church, Warwick, the St James’s Singers will perform many much loved pieces of choral...

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Christmas 2021

The traditional SJS Christmas Concert takes place at St Mary’s Church, Warwick, on Saturday, 18 December, starting at 7.30pm. This year’s Reader is well-known actor David Troughton. Over a career spanning five decades, David has vast experience in...

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CHRISTMAS 2020

  For all of us choir members, our orchestral players, and our Friends and families who make up our audiences, this year has been like no other. The wonderful tradition of our Christmas concert has been broken after a run of nearly 30 years! No superb readings, no fun...

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CHRISTMAS 21 DECEMBER 2019

CHRISTMAS 21 DECEMBER 2019

The St James’s Singers present their ever-popular Christmas Concert on Saturday 21st December, at 7.30pm, in St Mary’s Church, Warwick. This year our Reader is Sunny Ormonde. Sunny has been playing the “outrageous and raunchy Lilian Bellamy” in Radio 4’s The Archers...

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Welcome to all the Pleasures 12 October 2019

Welcome to all the Pleasures 12 October 2019

The autumn 2019 concert takes place on Saturday, 12 October, at St Mary’s Church Warwick.

Charpentier – Te Deum H146

Vivaldi – Magnificat RV610

Purcell
– Welcome to all the Pleasures Z339
– Sing unto the Lord Z44
– Te Deum and Jubilate Z232

Vivaldi – Recorder Concerto in C Major RV443

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Duruflé, Poulenc and Debussy – April 2019

Duruflé, Poulenc and Debussy – April 2019

The setting by Maurice Duruflé of the Requiem Mass (Mass for the Dead) dates from 1947. Unlike the apocalyptic settings of the Requiem Mass by Berlioz and Verdi, Duruflé’s is more akin to Fauré’s familiar setting in its sense of serene optimism. This is...

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WAR AND PEACE 28 October 2018

WAR AND PEACE 28 October 2018

The St James’s Singers present a concert of readings and music to commemorate the end of the First World War one hundred years ago in 1918. The concert takes place at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, on Sunday, 28 October, and starts at 8.00pm. We have put...

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Alveston Concert – Songs for St James

Alveston Concert – Songs for St James

Songs For St James – a concert at St James’s Church, Alveston on Saturday 14 October 2017 The choir will perform  a mixed programme of glorious choral classics and more recent compositions which are all linked with the church.  The centre pieces of the...

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Christmas Concert – In Dulci Jubilo

Christmas Concert – In Dulci Jubilo

The Saint James’s Singers present a concert for Christmas on Saturday, 17 December at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, starting at 7.30pm. It will include In Duci Jubilo, a tune recorded as early as the 1400s, with the familiar words and four-part...

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Sing Quires of Angels

The Saint James’s Singers will perform their Christmas 2015 concert at St Mary’s Church, Warwick on Saturday, 19 December starting at 7.30pm. Following the sad death of Sir David Willcocks aged 94 earlier in the autumn, we have planned a programme which...

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Bach – Mass in B Minor – 18 April 2015

Bach – Mass in B Minor – 18 April 2015

On Saturday 18 April the Saint James’s Singers celebrate their Thirtieth Anniversary with a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor at St Mary’s Church, Warwick. This massive work stands at the very pinnacle of achievement in the composition of sacred choral music. It...

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The Midnight Clear – December 20 2014

The Midnight Clear – December 20 2014

The St James’s Singers’ Christmas Concert – The Midnight Clear – takes place on Saturday, 20 December at St Mary’s Church, Warwick at 7.30pm. The concert will be a celebration of Christmas with music and readings. Our reader is actor Tim...

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