The Rodolfus Choir and Alumni Choir

Conductors: Ralph Allwood and Elinor Cooper

Choral favourites to include works by Bach, Dove, Elgar, Harris, Parry, Tavener, Lucy Walker and Roderick Williams and to include an anthem for audience participation!

Come and help us celebrate 40 fantastic years.

Sunday 7th April 2024, at 5pm

Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2BA

Tickets £18 (conc. £12) via TicketSource, search ‘Rodolfus Choir’

To include refreshments afterwards.

The Rodolfus Choir are delighted to be returning to Douai Abbey for our regularly sold-out biennial New Year’s Eve concert after a long break due to COVID-19.  This concert will present some of the finest choral music written for the season including Giovanni Gabrieli’s Jubilate Deo, Cornelius’s The Three Kings and Howells’s A Spotless Rose, as well as music by J.S. Bach, Arvo Pärt, Imogen Holst and Tomas Luis de Victoria. The choir will also sing contemporary carols by Lucy Walker, James Burton, Jan Sandström and Ralph Allwood himself!

Conductors: Ralph Allwood MBE and Elinor Cooper

The Rodolfus Choir are delighted to be performing at the National Musician's Church of Holy Sepulchre, Holborn. This concert will present some of the finest choral music written for the season including Giovanni Gabrieli’s Jubilate Deo, Cornelius’s The Three Kings and Howells’s A Spotless Rose, as well as music by J.S. Bach, Arvo Pärt, Imogen Holst and Tomas Luis de Victoria. The choir will also sing contemporary carols by Lucy Walker, James Burton, Jan Sandström and Ralph Allwood himself!

Conductors: Ralph Allwood MBE and Elinor Cooper

An interval bar serving refreshments will be available at this concert. 

The first event of the 2023-2024 season sees The Rodolfus Choir return to one of the most prestigious college chapels in the country to sing evensong.

Introit Consider the lilies of the field – Ralph Allwood
Responses William Byrd
Canticles St Paul’s Service - Herbert Howells
Anthem Give unto the Lord - Edward Elgar

Conductor Ralph Allwood
Organist Alex Robson

Please note, members of the choir must complete registration and sign up to this event to take part.

The Rodolfus Choir join up with Grammy-nominated artists Stile Antico for a concert to mark 400 years since William Byrd’s death. The programme will include performances by members of Byrd’s motets and madrigals by Stile Antico and consorts from The Rodolfus Choir, as well as parts of The Great Service and Laudibus in Sanctis.

The Rodolfus Choir perform a programme inspired by William Byrd as part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London. Including music by Tallis, Purcell, Elgar, Parry and Ralph Allwood. Conducted by Ralph Allwood and Elinor Cooper.

The Rodolfus Choir will sing evensong at Holy Sepulchre. The service is enitirely free to members of the congregation and will include Parry’s Magnificat, Emendemus in Melius by William Byrd and Byrd responses. Supporters are invited to join us for a drinks reception after the service.

Ravishing choral music with a Christmas theme, including Vaughan Williams, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Tallis, Bach and Howells presented by the exceptionally talented Rodolfus Choir.

Drawn from Britain’s very finest young choral singers, The Rodolfus Choir “perform throughout with clarity, flawless intonation and an ideal blend, in repertoire that would tax the resources of a professional choir.“ BBC Music Magazine.

Tickets on sale from 2nd December 2022 from BathBox Office

Programme

The Truth Sent From Above (Vaughan Williams)

O Rex Gloriae (Grzegorz Gorczycki)

Christe Qui Lux (Robert White)

…Which Was the Son Of…(Arvo Pärt)

Beata es Virgo Maria (Mikołaj Zieleński)

Ave Maria (Bruckner)

The Crown of Roses (Tchaikovsky)

Misereri Nostri (Tallis)

Lobet Den Herrn (Bach)

Sancte Deus (Tallis)

Sancte Deus (Ralph Allwood)

Os Justi (Bruckner)

Three Kings (Jonathan Dove)

My Heart, O God (Lucy Walker)

Walking in the Snow (Howells)

O Adonai (Roderick Williams)

Jingle Bells (Ralph Allwood)

Ralph Allwood’s Rodolfus Choir unlocks a treasure-house of Polish sacred music in this ravishing opening concert of the 2022 Joy and Devotion festival.

Drawn from Britain’s very finest young choral singers, The Rodolfus Choir is a choir with a striking difference; an ensemble, in the words of Gramophone, that “ rises above the technical challenges to convey a sense of radiance and elation that is indelibly memorable”. As part of Joy and Devotion, London’s new annual festival of Polish sacred music, Rodolfus’s founder and trainer Ralph Allwood takes these handpicked vocalists on a journey into the soul of a nation: chants, anthems, organ solos and fervent prayers. This is music of burning passion and ecstatic beauty, spanning nearly a millennium of endurance, courage and unquenchable faith.

Programme

Bogurodzica (13th-14th century)
Marian Sawa – Chorale Prelude ‘Adoro te devote’ (organ solo)
Grzegorz Gorczycki – O Rex Gloriae; Sepulto Domino
Mikołaj Zieleński – Beata es Virgo Maria
Mikołaj z Krakowa (Nicolaus Cracoviensis) – Salve * (organ solo)
Mikołaj Zieleński – O gloriosa Domina; Benedicamus Deum Coeli
Tabulatura Jana z Lublina – Rex (organ solo)
Roxanna Panufnik – All shall be well*
Marian Sawa – Popule meus
Jan Krutul – Ave verum corpus; Missa brevis
Mikołaj z Krakowa (Nicolaus Cracoviensis) – Ave Jerarchia (organ solo)
Stanisław Moryto – Three Psalms

Performers

Rodolfus Choir
Ralph Allwood Conductor
Rupert Jeffcoat Organ

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The Rodolfus Choir take part in a performance of Brahms’s Requiem, with the LPO conducted by Edward Gardner and with soloist Roderick Williams, both of who are Rodolfus alumni. Tickets available from LPO website.

The Rodolfus Choir take part in the Barnes Music Festival Schools and Community concert at St Paul’s School, Barnes. Tickets are available from the Barnes Festival website.

VENUE CHANGE ***The Rodolfus Choir will now be performing at St Gabriel’s Church in Pimlico, London at a new time of 2pm***

‘This Worldes Joy’ - Rodolfus Choir returns to St Gabriel’s Church for an afternoon concert of seasonal choral music on New Year’s Eve 2021.

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The Rodolfus Choir, as part of their post-Christmas concert series, will be performing in a late-night concert a selection of seasonal choral music.

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The Rodolfus Choir will be singing evensong. Tickets not required. Please check the Cathedral website for covid restrictions.

Evensong and Benediction at St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico SW1V 2DD directed by Ralph Allwood.

Evensong and Benediction at St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico SW1V 2DD directed by Simon Toyne.

Congregation welcome, depending on government advice at the time.

A concert of Christmas carols and readings from the Rodolfus Choir and special guests

Youtube broadcast.

Donations in aid of our Courses Bursary Fund that enables singers from all backgrounds to attend a course

The annual performance of Messiah is different this year. Join us in a carefully managed socially-distanced arrangement of the church where Laurence Cummings will lead four star soloists, all past finalists from the Handel Singing Competition, and the London Handel Orchestra in a live performance in front of a small audience. The choruses have been prepared and pre-recorded by 7 choirs, including singers from around the world in a specially-formed Sing-At-Home Choir. Tickets for the live performance are available from 6 November here.

The online edition of the Schools' Concert of The Mayflower by Mark Wilderspin with the Rodolfus Choir that was meant to take place during the Barnes Music Festival in March will be broadcast as a YouTube premiere on Wednesday 11th November at 6pm. For more information and link to premier please email barnesmusicfestival@gmail.com

Register to attend this Alumni Reunion for all those who went on choral courses since the 1980s, including Uppingham and Eton Choral Courses, and also those who sang with the Rodolfus Choir. Staff from across the decades are also warmly invited to attend.

We will meet in Temple Church at 4pm, rehearse for an hour and then lead evensong. After this, there will be plenty of opportunity to catch up with old friends over drinks and nibbles.

There is a small charge to attend to help us meet the costs of this event, as we are a charity diverting all surplus into our bursary fund.

Please click here to register your details and buy your tickets.

With the Rodolfus Choir and Pimlico Music Foundation. In association with the Brandenburg Concert Series.

Registration 10.30am.

10.45am-1pm Rehearsal

2pm-3.30pm Rehearsal

Concert at 4pm

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Sea Adventures Schools Concert at Wathen Hall, St Paul's Boys School, Lonsdale Road, Barnes.  The Rodolfus Choir join local primary and secondary schools for the premiere of a cantata ‘The Journey of the Mayflower’ by Mark Wilderspin (Director of Music at St Paul’s School). 

More details and tickets http://www.barnesmusicfestival.com/tickets

1808 Reconstructed with The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at The Royal Festival Hall, London.  https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/date/2020/03

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a new production recreating one of the most famous concerts in the history of classical music: Beethoven’s epic Vienna concert of December 1808. with The Philharmonia Orchestra at The Anvil, Basingstoke.

https://www.anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on/event/extra-philharmonia-orchestra

From the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, with the Rodolfus Choir (recorded 17th September).

Prelude: Chorale Prelude on ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’ (Reger)
Introit: Here is the little door (Howells)
Responses: Shephard
Psalms 108, 109 (Atkins, Turle)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv.9b-18
Office hymn: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet was schwebet)
Canticles: Stanford in G
Second Lesson: Mark 9 vv.2-13
Anthem: The Shepherd's Farewell (Berlioz)
Hymn: Brightest and best are the sons of the morning (Epiphany)
Voluntary: Alleluyas (Simon Preston)

Ralph Allwood (Director of Music)
Joseph Wicks (Organist)

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A Ceremony of Carols (SATB ) - Britten

PROGRAMME

Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, London

A Hymn to the Virgin - Britten
Illuminare Jerusalem - Weir
Lully lulla - Leighton
Lux aurumque - Whitacre
Lullaby my sweet little baby - Byrd
I sing of a maiden - Hadley
A Ceremony of carols - Britten (SATB)
A babe is born - Mathias
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - Gardner
Wonderful Christmastime - McCartney, arr. Rice

Join us during the Festive season for Evensong at St Gabriel’s Church in Pimlico. No ticket is required for you to be part of the congregation, and partake in one of our richest traditions.

Introit: This is the truth sent from above
Responses: Byrd
Stanford in B flat
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Praetorius