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".... one hundred years of singing"

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Since their inception, Clacton Choral Society have sung:

Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio

Barnett: The Ancient Mariner

Bax: In Nightly Stillness

Birch: The Merry Men of Sherwood Forest

Bizet: Carmen, Te Deum

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

Brahms: A German Requiem

César Franck:Psalm 150

Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast

Cowen: Rose Maiden

Dvorak: Stabat Mater

Elgar: Songs from the Bavarian Highlands,Evening Scene,

The Music Makers, Ave Verum

Fauré: Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine

Finzi: In Terra Pax

German: Merrie England, Tom Jones

Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe. The Mikado,

Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers

Goss: Oh Saviour of the World

Gounod: Faust, St Cecilia Mass

Handel: Messiah, Judas Maccabeus,

Zadok the Priest

Harris: Oh What their Joy

Haydn: The Creation. The Seasons,

Marie Therese Mass, Nelson Mass

Head: The Little Road to Bethlehem

Howells: A Spotless Rose

Ireland: Greater Love Hath No Man

Leigh: Psalm 150

Marlotte: The Lord’s Prayer

Maunder: Olivet to Calvary

Mendelssohn: Elijah, St. Paul,

Hymn of Praise, Hear my Prayer

Mozart: Ave Verum, Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers

Mass in C Minor, Mass in C, Exultate Jubilate

Offenbach: Tales of Hoffman

Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens, Jerusalem,

Songs of Farewell, I Was Glad

Pearsal: In Dulce Jubilo

Poulenc: Gloria

Puccini: Messa di Gloria

Purcell: Ode to St. Cecilia

Rossini: Petite Messe Solonnelle

Rutter: The Blessing, All Things Bright & Beautiful

Schubert: Sanctus

Smetana: The Bartered Bride

Somervell: The Passion of Christ

Spohr: Last Judgment

Stainer: Crucifixion, The Daughter Of Jairus

Stanford: Te Deum, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis in B Flat,

Monkey’s Carol, Psalm 150, Songs of the Sea

Sterndale Bennett: The May Queen

Stolz: White Horse Inn

Sumsion: They that go down to the Sea in Ships

Thiman: The 12 days of Christmas, The Nativity

Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover,

Sir John in Love (In Windsor Forest),
Old Hundredth, Fantasia on Christmas Carols,
Toward the Unknown Region

Verdi: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Requiem

Vivaldi: Gloria

Walford Davies: God Be in My Head

Wesley: Blessed be the God and Father. O Lord my God,

They That Love Him in Perfect Peace.

They have sung in the following venues:

The Assembly Rooms at The Royal Hotel
The Band Pavilion
The Old Town Hall
The Prince’s Theatre
The West Cliff Theatre
The Century Cinema
St. James’s, Clacton
St. Paul’s, Clacton
Trinity, Wesleyan and Christ Church, Clacton
Church of Our Lady of Light, Clacton
St. John’s, Great Clacton
St. Michael’s, Thorpe
St. Osyth’s Parish Church
All Saints, Walton
The Parish Church, Frinton
The Colchester Institute
The Red Cross Hall, Holland
The College Hall St Osyth.