St. JAMES’S CHURCH, STONEHAVEN Given that the previous concert by the Stonehaven Chorus in December last year was for Homecoming Scotland rather than their traditional Christmas Fare there were no popular carols for the audience to join in singing. Their latest concert in St. James’s Church on Sunday corrected that omission with the opportunity for […]

STONEHAVEN TOWN HALL An early Scots song “Nou let us sing” was a thoroughly apt choice of opening number to kick-start the special Homecoming Concert given by the Stonehaven Chorus on Friday. It introduced the various sections of the choir while suggesting which drinks, and in what quantity, would provide the ideal booster for each […]

St James’s Church, STONEHAVEN At this year’s Spring Concert, the Stonehaven Chorus offered one of the great time-honoured classics of church music, Bach’s Magnificat in D. This they set alongside the world premiere of the new English version of a Requiem by Fredrik Sixten, one of Sweden’s most celebrated composers of contemporary church music. Dr […]

Dunnottar Church, STONEHAVEN Thanks to the tireless adventurous spirit of their musical director Dr John Hearne, the Stonehaven Chorus can be relied upon year after year to come up with an exciting programme of music from all around the world; something for their Christmas Concert that is sure to astonish as well as to delight. […]

St. JAMES’S CHURCH, STONEHAVEN Sunday’s performance was dedicated to the memory of the late J. Finlay Squires, a stalwart of the bass section in the Stonehaven Chorus. What better music to remember him by than Rachmaninov’s Vespers. His rich basso profundo voice was, as the programme said, such an asset when the Chorus performed movements […]

DUNNOTTAR CHURCH, STONEHAVEN A capacity audience at this year’s annual Christmas concert in Dunnottar Church on Sunday afternoon raised their voices to the rafters to join with the Stonehaven Chorus in singing some of the best loved hymns and carols that have come to define the traditional Christmas. What gave Sunday’s concert its unique cachet […]

St. JAMES’S CHURCH, STONEHAVEN The Stonehaven Chorus sounded jubilant indeed as they rejoiced resonantly in a selection of favorite church music in St James’s Church on Sunday. This was especially true in the central section of their three-part programme representing music from the Chapels of Wales. The opening section included music by Scottish composers, both […]

St. JAMES’S CHURCH, STONEHAVEN The undoubted highlight of last Sunday’s concert by the Stonehaven Chorus in St. James Episcopal Church was a work they first performed in collaboration with the Gothenburg Sinfonietta at their concert in the Music Hall, Aberdeen in December 1995. This was Förklädd Gud or A God Disguised by the Swedish composer […]