Concerts
At least four concerts a year, mostly in All Saints' Church, Writtle, plus Christmas at Copped Hall.
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There is Sweet Music
All Saints' Church, Writtle, 4:00pm
A selection of delectable song, secular and sacred, in celebration of music for the feast of St Cecilia.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. Concessions £5. Under-16s free.
Carols at the Mansion
Copped Hall, near Epping, 3:00pm (gates open 2:00pm)
Our regular Christmas concert at Copped Hall: log fires, and Christmas jumpers against the draughts.
Tickets: £15, children aged 5 to 9 £8. Sold by Copped Hall.
Candlelit Carols
All Saints' Church, Writtle, 5:00pm
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. Concessions £5. Under-16s free.
Spring Concert
Programme to be announced.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. Concessions £5. Under-16s free.
Summer Concert
Programme to be announced.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. Concessions £5. Under-16s free.
Past concerts
Programmes open as PDFs.
2026
Vivaldi Gloria
With the Jericho Ensemble. Vivaldi Gloria, Monteverdi Beatus Vir, and Purcell Te Deum and Jubilate Deo
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Leader Joanne Davies
Spring tour to Vienna
With the Valentine Singers. Mass and a short concert at the Stephansdom, the Piaristenkirche and the Schubertkirche.
Conductor Christine Gwynn
Journey to Easter
Spring Concert
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn
2025
Candlelit Carols
Christmas Concert
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductors Christine Gwynn and Julie Cookson · Organist Simon Harvey
Cantate Domino
Autumn Concert
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Laurence Lyndon-Jones
Summer Reflections
Summer Concert
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Pianist Jamie Cochrane
In Tune with Nature
Spring Concert
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn
2024
Candlelit Christmas Concert
With Writtle Junior School Choir
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Simon Harvey
Entente Musicale
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Laurence Lyndon-Jones
Out of the Darkness
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Laurence Lyndon-Jones
2023
Candlelit Carols
With Writtle Junior School Choir, conducted by Julie Cookson
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Simon Harvey
The Gift of Music
Choral and organ music for the feast of St Cecilia
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Laurence Lyndon-Jones
Of Byrd and Bard
Music by, and influenced by, William Byrd, with settings of Shakespeare
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn
Music from Vienna
St Gabriel's Church, Aldersbrook, E12
Conductor Christine Gwynn
2022
Candlelit Christmas
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Simon Harvey
A Place in the Sun
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Hilary Punnett
A Summer Garland
Britten's Choral Dances from Gloriana and Alan Bullard's A Summer Garland
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn
Lighten Our Darkness
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Hilary Punnett
2021
Candlelit Christmas Carols
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Musical Director Christine Gwynn · Organist Simon Harvey
Sing Joyfully
Our first concert since the pandemic
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Musical Director Christine Gwynn
2020
All our 2020 concerts were postponed because of the pandemic.
2019
Candlelit Christmas Concert
With Little 2 Big Voices
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Conductor Christine Gwynn · Organist Simon Harvey
All Creatures Great and Small
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Musical Director Christine Gwynn · Pianist Jamie Cochrane
Night Watch and Earth Hour
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Musical Director Christine Gwynn
2018
Carols by Candlelight
All Saints' Church, Writtle
Musical Director Christine Gwynn
Everything we've sung
From Adriaenssen to Zelenka, by way of Elton John. Composers A–Z.
A
- Adriaenssen
- Dibedibedon
- Alain Jehan
- Messe de Requiem
- Allegri
- Miserere
- Andrew Kerry
- Hevene QueneO lux beata Trinitas
- Anerio
- Christus factus est
- Arensky
- Otche Nash
B
- Bach J S
- Break forth, O beauteous heav'nly lightJesu, priceless treasureMagnificatMass in B minorO little one sweetSt John Passion
- Bain
- Brother James's Air (arr Jacob)
- Bairstow
- I sat down under his shadowThe Lamentation
- Baldacci Janet
- The Lamb
- Barber
- The monk and his cat
- Batten Adrian
- O sing joyfully
- Beethoven
- Mass in C
- Ben Jorge
- Mas que nada
- Bennett Richard Rodney
- The Insect World
- Bernstein
- Chichester Psalms
- Bianchi Don Italo
- Sera sui monte arr. Pierruccini
- Blinko Timothy
- The First Nowell – A New Melody
- Boswell Eric
- Little Donkey
- Boulanger
- Soir sur la plaine
- Brahms
- AbendliedGeistliche LiedGerman Requiem
- Brewer
- Mag & Nunc in D
- Bridge
- Music when soft voices die
- Briggs Kerensa
- Ave Regina CaelorumMedia Vita
- Britten
- A boy was bornA Hymn to the VirginChoral Dances from GlorianaFlower SongsHymn to St CeciliaJubilateRejoice in the lamb
- Brown
- Three Shakespeare Songs
- Bruckner
- Ave MariaChristus factus estLocus isteOs justiPsalm 23 (22)
- Bullard Alan
- A Summer GarlandAve maris stellaCantate GloriaPsalmi Penitentiales
- Burgon
- Nunc dimittis
- Buxtehude
- Magnificat
- Byrd
- Ave VerumFauxbourdon Evening CanticlesQuomodo cantabimusMass for four voicesMass for five voicesWhy do I use my paperThough Amaryllis Dance
C
- Caplin
- Missa Omnium SanctorumO Salutaris & Tantum Ergo
- Carter
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Carver
- Mass L’homme armé: Gloria & Credo
- Casals
- O vos omnes
- Certon
- La la la, je ne l’ose dire
- Chaminade
- Pieces Romantiques
- Charpentier
- Messe de MinuitTe Deum H146
- Chilcott
- My Prayer
- Clews Eileen
- God Is In Me
- Coleridge-Taylor
- O ye that love the LordThe Lee shore
- Cooke
- O men from the fields
- Coots / Gillespie
- Santa Claus is coming to town
- Cowper Robert
- Gloria in excelsis Deo
- Cunningham
- Scotland at NightThe Painter's Eye
D
- Daley
- Upon your heart
- De Marzi Bepi
- Dormono le rose
- Debussy
- Trois Chansons
- DeFord Sally
- Write thy name
- Delius
- To be sung of a summer night on the water
- Desprez
- Ave Maria
- Dupré
- O salutaris Op.9
- Duruflé
- Quatre motets sur des thèmes GrégoriensRequiem
E
- Ebeling
- All my heart this night rejoices
- Elgar
- As torrents in summerGive unto the LordMy love dwelt in a northern landThe Spirit of the LordThere is sweet music
- Evans
- Reflets de Lune
F
- Farmer
- Fair Phyllis I saw
- Fauré
- Cantique de Jean RacineMadrigalMesse BasseRequiem
- Finzi
- Three Short ElegiesMy Spirit Sang All DayWhite Flowering Days
- Flecha
- Riu, Riu, Chiu
- Franck
- Panis angelicus
G
- Gant Andrew
- Ave verum corpus
- García de Zéspedes Juan
- Convidando está la noche
- Gervaise
- Bransle double
- Gesualdo
- O vos omnes
- Gibbons
- Dainty Fine BirdDrop Drop Slow TearsThe Silver SwanWhat is our life
- Gjeilo
- Northern LightsWintertide
- Glover-Kind
- I do like to be beside the seaside
- Goodall
- 23rd PsalmMarlborough Canticles (1996)
- Grieg
- Ave maris stella
H
- Hadley
- I sing of a maiden
- Hairston Jester
- Mary's Boy Child
- Hall Jamie
- O nata lux
- Handel
- Dixit DominusHappy WeMessiah extractsZadok the priest
- Harris Matthew
- Shakespeare Songs
- Harris WH
- Faire is the heaven
- Hatton
- Stars of the summer night
- Haydn
- Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass)Te Deum in C
- Head
- The ships of Arcady
- Henry VIII
- Helas MadamePastime with good companySince Robin Hood
- Hensel
- Gartenlieder Op.3:Lockung No.1Morgengruß No.4Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald No.5
- Holst
- Ave MariaFive Partsongs Op 12Nunc DimittisO SwallowPsalm 148Personent Hodie
- Horovitz
- Horrortorio
- Howells
- A Hymn for St CeciliaHere is the little doorLike as the hartTake him, earth, for cherishing
I
- Ingalls Jeremiah
- Glory to God on high
- Ireland
- Greater Love
J
- Jackson Gabriel
- A Prayer of King Henry VIMissa Sanctae MargaretaeTo the Field of Stars
- Janequin
- Le Chant des Oiseaux
- Janáček
- Otčenáš
- John Elton
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Josquin
- Ave Maria
- Joubert John
- There is no roseTorches
K
- King, Leiber & Stoller
- Stand by me
- Kirkpatrick W J
- Away in a manger
- Kodály
- An Ode for MusicEvening Song (Esti Dal)Jesus and the TradersLaudes Organi
L
- Langlais
- Messe Solennelle
- Lindberg Nils
- Shall I CompareSonnet 18
- Liszt
- Ave MariaAve Maris StellaMissa Choralis
- Lotti
- Crucifixus à 8Regina Coeli
- Lusitano
- Hodie Simon Petrus
M
- MacFarren
- Orpheus with his luteWhen daisies pied
- MacMillan
- Missa BrevisSo deep
- Martin
- Mass for Double Choir
- Martines
- Dixit DominusMiserere
- Mathias
- Sir Christèmas
- Maxwell Davies
- Lullabye for Lucy
- McDowall
- Ave Maris StellaShipping Forecast
- McMaster
- Three Icelandic Folktales
- Mendelssohn
- Verleih uns Frieden
- Mendelssohn arr. Christine Gwynn
- Wedding march from A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Mendelssohn Fanny
- LockungMorgengruss
- Messiaen
- O sacrum convivium!
- Moeran
- Songs of Springtime
- de Monte
- Super flumina Babylonis
- Monteverdi
- Beatus VirCantate Domino
- Morley
- April is in my mistress' faceFyer, fyerIt was a lover and his lassNow is the month of MayingSing we and chant it
- Mozart
- Ave VerumC minor MassOverture from The Marriage of Figaro arr. Christine GwynnRegina CoeliSei Notturni
- Mäntyjärvi
- Four Shakespeare Songs
N
- Naylor
- Vox dicentis
- Nelson Havelock
- While Christ lay dead
O
- Oldroyd
- Prayer to Jesus
- Ord
- Adam Lay Ybounden
P
- Padilla
- Missa ego flos campi
- Panufnik
- The Gift of MusicWestminster Mass
- Parry
- I was gladJerusalemMusic, when soft voices dieMy delight and thy delightSongs of FarewellWelcome Yule
- Parsons
- Ave Maria
- Passereau
- Il est bel et bon
- Pearsall
- In dulci jubiloLay a garlandSir Patrick Spens
- Philips
- Gaudent in coelis
- Porter
- Miss Otis regrets
- Poulenc
- GloriaMass in GQuatre motets pour le temps de Noël
- Pratt
- Carollers from hell
- Purcell
- Hear my prayerDido & AeneasJehova, quam multi sunt hostes meiMusic For A WhileRejoice in the Lord alwayTe Deum & Jubilate in DThe Fairy QueenThou knowest Lord
- Pärt
- Bogoraditse DjavoMagnificatThe woman with the Alabaster box
Q
- Quilter
- Cupid
R
- Rachmaninov
- Ave MariaBogoroditsye Dyevo
- Ragnarsson
- Ave Maria
- Ramirez
- Misa Criolla
- Rathbone
- Strawberry FairThree Folk Songs
- Ravel
- Trois Chansons
- Rheinberger
- Abendlied
- Ruocco
- A Shakespeare FragmentPsalm 23
- Rutter
- Birthday madrigalsBrother Heinrich's ChristmasChildhood LyricsDown by the riversideFor the beauty of the earthThe Lord bless you and keep you
S
- Saint-Saëns
- Ave verumCalme des nuitsLes fleurs et les arbres
- Schmidt
- Try To Remember arr Rathbone
- Schubert
- Deutsche MassMagnificat D486 (1815)Mass in GPsalm 23Who is Sylvia
- Schumann Clara
- Abendfeier
- Schumann Robert
- Widmung
- Seiber
- Three Nonsense Songs
- Shaw Martin
- Benedicite
- Simpson Andrew
- Surge illuminare
- Smyth
- March of the women
- Stainer
- God so loved the world
- Stanford
- Beati quorum viaDimittis in B flatFarewell my joyJubilate Deo in B flat op. 10Justorum animaeMagnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Psalm 150Quick we have but a secondThe Blue BirdThree Motets
- Sterndale Bennett
- Come live with me
- Stravinsky
- Ave Maria
- Strozzi
- Silenzio Mocivo
- Sullivan
- The long day closes
- Sweelinck
- Chantez à Dieu (Psalm 96)Hodie Christus natus est
T
- Tallis
- Glory to thee, my God this nightIf ye love meLamentations of Jeremiah Pt1O nata luxPraise God, from whom all blessing flowThird mode melody
- Tavener
- Song for Athene
- Taylor Martin
- Blow, blow thou winter windLondon BridgeSet me as a sealThe Shifty Land
- Tchaikovsky
- Crown of RosesLegend
- Toch
- Geographical Fugue
- Traditional
- Fanfare
- Traditional Basque
- The Angel Gabriel arr. Pettman
- Traditional English
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Traditional French
- Célébrons la naissance
- Traditional Mexican
- El Rorro
- Traditional Neapolitan
- When Christ, the Son of Mary
- Traditional Provençal
- Far away arr. Bizet
V
- Vaughan Williams
- Bushes and BriarsCa' the YowesMass in G minorO taste and seeThe blessed Son of GodThe Turtle DoveThree Shakespeare songsWe've been a while a-wandering
- Vautor
- Mother, I will have a husbandSweet Suffolk Owl
- Verdi
- Ave MariaPater Noster
- Viadana
- Exsultate justi
- Victoria
- Ave MariaJesu dulcis memoriaO quam gloriosamO vos omnesOfficium Defunctorum Requiem 1605Requiem
- Vivaldi
- Beatus VirGloria
W
- Wagner
- Treulich Geführt
- Walton
- All this timeSet me as a seal
- Warlock
- Yarmouth Fair
- Weelkes
- Four Arms, Two NecksMagnificat and Nunc Dimittis from the Short ServiceThe Andalusian MerchantThule, the Period of Cosmography
- Weill
- What good would the moon be arr Rathbone
- Weir
- Love bad me welcome
- Wheeler Janet
- Sonnet 8 - Music to HearStevie's PetsTime becomes a song
- Whitacre Eric
- Lux aurumqueWater Night
- Whitlock Percy
- Jesu, grant me this I pray
- Wilbye
- Draw on sweet nightSweet Honey-Sucking Bees
- Willaert
- Irons-nous toujours coucher
- Willcocks
- Infant HolyMasters in this hall
- Wilson Jeffery
- Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
- Wood
- Full fathom fiveO Thou the central orb
Z
- Zelenka
- Aestimatus sum
Motets and other shorter works by
Franco Alonzo, Boulanger, Bruckner, Buxtehude, Certon, Pedro do Cristo, Juan del Encina, A & G Gabrieli, Gibbons, Grieg, Gutierrez, Harris, Holst, Howells, Ireland, Maxwell Davies, Monteverdi, Morley, Purcell, Ruocco, Stravinsky, Schutz, Sweelinck, Tallis, Victoria, Walton, Wolf.
Choruses from operas and operettas by
Donizetti, Lehár, Offenbach, Puccini, Purcell, Verdi.
Extracts from Gilbert & Sullivan
The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard.
Choruses and medleys from shows including
Cats, Guys and Dolls, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, The Sound of Music, South Pacific.
Arrangements of popular songs including
Bare necessities, Bushes and Briars, Come into the garden, Maud, Dashing away with the smoothing iron, Drunken Sailor, Goodnight sweetheart, I do like to be beside the seaside, I love Paris, I’m beginning to see the light, Miss Otis regrets, Nine hundred miles, O waly, waly, On the road to Mandalay, Shule Agra, Strawberry Fair, Swing low, Teddy bears’ picnic, The girl from Ipanema, The girl I left behind me, The mermaid, The oak and the ash, The turtle dove, The way you look tonight, The wraggle taggle gypsies, O.