WDCS

Wombourne and District Choral Society

Joint performance of Handel's Creation

In April 2009 the Wombourne Choral Society and the City of Wolverhampton Choir gave a joint performance of Handel's Creation. The Express and Star wrote the following:


'To celebrate the bicentennial of Josef Haydn's death the City and Wombourne choirs combined their considerable talents to perform one of the composer's best loved  works - The Creation.  This was the first time since 1975 that local choral societies have got together to present a large choral work and the result was most impressive...The 150-strong ensemble soon settled to produce a bright and confident sound.  Soprano Rachel Major showed a very pleasant tone, tenor Christopher Turner sang with great character and bass Christopher Foster contributed significantly.  Music director Ian Clarke always had matters very much under control.' 

Jerald Smith  - Express and Star

Our concert in December 2008 at St John's-in-the-Square, Wolverhampton received the following favourable review from Jerald Smith, music critic of the Express and Star:

"Despite being described as a 'frightful atheist' in his younger days, Ralph Vaughan Williams still wrote extensively for the Anglican church. He edited the English Hymnal and many of his settings of carols and hymns remain popular today. Reason enough, then, for Wombourne Choral to devote this well-attended festive concert to Vaughan Williams' music, including half-a-dozen audience-participation carols and hymns. The evocative Five Mystical Songs found baritone Hakan Vramsmo in exceptionally fine form, eloquently communicating the spirituality of George Herbert's texts. The Fantasia on Christmas Carols saw soloist and choir combining to give a heart-warming account of this collection of traditonal West Country carols, well-supported by the accompanying Wombourne String Players."