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Repertoire & music hire

The Lea Singers have developed a varied repertoire, and aim to promote a large scale orchestral concert every other year. Large scale works have included Bach’s St John Passion and B Minor Mass, Handel’s Messiah,the Monteverdi Vespers with professional period instrumentalists and singers and Britten’s St Nicholas Cantata with the St Nicholas boys’ choir.

We have a fairly extensive music library, which you can review by clicking on this link.  To discuss music hire, contact Frances Brown on 01582 793 845 or francesbrown25@yahoo.com.

Here are the Top 5 works performed most often by the Lea Singers in our first 50 years.

No. Composition Composer Times sung
1 Ave Verum Corpus William Byrd 37
2 Adam lay ybounden Boris Ord 28
3 All creatures now are merry minded John Bennet 27
4 The silver swan Orlando Gibbons 26
5= Beati quorum via Charles Villiers Stanford 24
5= My spirit sang all day Gerald Finzi 24
5= Now is the month of Maying Thomas Morley 24
5= The blue bird Charles Villiers Stanford 24

Forthcoming concerts

Saturday March 24 7.30pm
Spring Harmony – a concert for choir and organ

21 and 22 April
Weekend of services in Durham Cathedral

More information

“I am thoroughly enjoying the challenge of learning a lot of music, fast, singing with talented amateur musicians.”

Miriam McKay (Alto)