Following on from a year that focused on Handel’s ‘Messiah’, Norfolk Camerata are turning this Spring/Summer to another favourite of the choral repertoire: Mozart’s ‘Requiem’.

Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is his final, unfinished masterpiece, a haunting choral work for the dead commissioned anonymously, shrouded in legend as Mozart believed he was writing it for his own funeral as his health failed. It’s a deeply emotional journey through prayer, judgment, and hope, contrasting the terrifying “Dies Irae” (Day of Wrath) with moments of exquisite beauty like the “Lacrimosa,” blending profound human fear with pleas for eternal rest and mercy, ultimately completed by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. 

The performance of the Requiem, under the direction of William Falconer and with professional soloists, will take place at St Nicholas’s Church, North Walsham on Saturday 4^th July at 7.00 p.m.  Tickets will be available nearer the time via the Norfolk Camerata website, via the phone numbers below or at the church on the day.

Rehearsals are currently taking place on Wednesday evenings from 7.30 p.m. at Benet Hall, St Nicholas’s Church, North Walsham.   Any experienced singers who would like to join the Camerata for this performance are welcome to  come along to rehearsals.  Please phone Maggie Smyth (01603 783841) or Delia Malim (01692 407783 or 07787 917386) first as rehearsal dates and venue can vary.

Our next concert will be a performance of Part I of Handel’s Messiah on Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 7.00 p.m. in St Nicholas’s Church, North Walsham.

Tickets £10 available on the door or from Ticket Source:

 

 

Join us in St Nicholas’s Church, North Walsham on 5th July 2025 at 7.00 p.m. for the Last Night of the Proms.

The programme will include all the usual favourites plus Charles Villiers Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet and Arthur Sullivan’s Te Deum Laudamus.

Songs of the Fleet was composed in 1910 as a sequel to the Songs of the Sea and is a setting of poems by Henry Newbolt. 

The Boer War Te Deum was Sullivan’s last-completed major work.^[2] The text is the ancient Christian hymn as translated in the Book of Common Prayer, showing Sullivan’s “personal Christian commitment” at the end of his life.^[1] In addition, his use of his popular hymn tune, “St. Gertrude,” (Onward Christian Soldiers) throughout the Te Deum is the most prominent self-reference that Sullivan allowed himself in his career, underlining the very personal nature of this final work and his love of his church and country.

Light refreshments will be available.

 Tickets are £10 on the door, under-18s and carers free.

 

 

 

Our next event will be a Come and Sing Day in St Nicholas’s Church, North Walsham, on Saturday 5th April 2025 when we will rehearse and later perform a selection of choruses from this much loved work.

Tickets are £10 including score hire (under 18s and caregivers £5).  Bookings will be open from 1st December.

The day will commence at 10.00 for registration and will end with a free concert after the workshop.

Refreshments will be available.

We are grateful to the Paul Morgan Fund, the Paul Bassham Charitable Trust and North Walsham Commmunity Shop for financial support.

We would like to thank North Walsham Community Shop for their latest generous grant of £500 which enables us to invite distinguished soloists and musicians to accompany our performances.  A cheque was presented to Chair Maggie Smyth at the beginning of the Autumn term 2024 in St Nicholas’s Church.