Gallery & Programmes 
On this page you'll find a sample of our programmes - and venues. You will see the programmes are quite varied, usually challenging and always interesting to audience and choir alike. We sing in a number of languages - notably Russian, German and Latin with some French and Middle English occasionally. We are fortunate to have several linguists in CCC who double up as language coaches.  

 This was a lovely programme of sacred and non-sacred music on the theme of love, as the names suggest. We performed a shortened version at Whittingham and the full programme at Norham.

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On Love and Renaissance


Elgar                      Love

Rubbra                   Afton Water

Wilbye                   Adieu, sweet Amaryllis

Brahms                   O, süsser Mai!

Grainger                 Near Woodstock Town

 

Purcell                  Thou knowest Lord, the secrets of our hearts

Stanford                Farewell my Joy

Elgar                     Death on the hills

 

Bennet                  Weep, O mine eyes.

Brahms                  Dem Dunkeln Schoss der Heiligen Erde

Maxwell Davies      Lullaby for Lucy

Finzi                      My spirit sang all day ew Paragraph

 In July 2022 we performed a short concert 'at home' in Rothbury URC to welcome Ukrainian families to the village. Performing John Rutter's Ukrainian Prayer' was a challenge but worth it when we were complimented on our pronunciation.

We performed this programme again in April 2018 at St Mary's Church, Wooler
Music of Remembrance
A concert in collaboration with Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers conducted by Francesca Massey
Performed at St Paul’s Church, Alnwick on Saturday 3 November 2018 and
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral on Sunday 4 November 2018

Sung by Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers:
Herbert Howells                                                      Take him, earth, for 
                                                                              cherishing              Requiem
Sung by Coquetdale Chamber Choir:  
                                                     
Charles Villiers Stanford                                          Peace, come away   
James MacMillan                                                     Give me justice         
Samuel Barber                                                        Let down the bars, O death           
Maurice Duruflé                                                      Ubi Caritas           
Vaughan Williams                                                    Rest                   

Sung by both choirs:
John Casken                                                            Memorial   
                                                                              (for the fallen and lost, 1914)


Stanford:                     Justorum animae
Tchaikovsky:                Blazhéni yazhe izbral 
Victoria:                      O quam gloriosum
Paul Mealor:                Ave Maria 
Gibbons:                      Almighty and everlasting God
Rachmaninov:              Bogoroditsé Dyévo
Byrd:                           I will not leave you comfortless
Rachmaninov:              Da icpolynatsya
Arvo Pärt:                    The woman with the alabaster box
JC Bach:                      Es ist nun aus meinem Lebe 
 A Festival of Lessons and Carols combined many traditional carols and readings with:
Boris Ord                                                     Adam Lay ybounden
John Casken                                                Child of Hope
William Walton                                          All This Time
Herbert Howells                                         O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
Howard Skempton                                    Ave Virgo Sanctissima
Cecilia McDowell                                       Now May We Singen    
John Tavener                                              The Lamb 
David Willcocks (arr)                                 Infant Holy
Arvo Part                                                     Bogoroditsé Djévo
Hector Berlioz                                            The Shepherd's Farewell        
Flor Peeters                                                All my Heart Today Rejoices 
R.L. Pearsall (arr)                                        In Dulci Jubilo   
 
This page would not be complete without a Christmas programme. This one was performed in 2019 at Holy Trinity, Cambo and St Mary's Church Wooler. Both venues have become regular fixtures, not least because we don't just sing, but enjoy fantastic mince pies, mulled wine and much more!