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Concert Reviews
Bearsden Choir – Choral Communities
‘Which choir is that? They are fantastic!’ was my instant reaction to the performances of the spirituals from A Child of our Time slotted into John Bridcut’s 2023 BBC TV documentary Michael Tippett: The Shadow and the Light. I assumed it was one of the...
Bearsden Choir – Pärt and Puccini 4*
ALTHOUGH it is not likely to boost the number of performances of his work, it is easy to see why Bearsden Choir alumnus George Swann leapt at the chance to orchestrate the work his fellow singers premiered a year ago. Swann's setting of Romantic poet John Clare's Love...
Bearsden Choir – Faure and Vivaldi 4*
IT is telling of the development of Bearsden Choir that chorus director Andrew Nunn is relaxed about repeating repertoire, like the two works in this programme, Vivaldi’s Gloria and the Faure Requiem. Just as significantly, the one new work it has commissioned, Love...
Bearsden Choir – Brahms Requiem 4*
LAST year’s edition of Scottish Opera’s annual touring show, Opera Highlights, was to have supplied both the soloists for Bearsden Choir’s concert of Brahms’ German Requiem, soprano Monica McGhee and baritone Daniel Shelvey. So when Shelvey called off unwell, it was...
Bearsden Choir – Mozart Requiem 4*
SATURDAY afternoon belonged to George Swann, it is safe to say, and not just because Mozart and Michael Tippett are no longer with us – nor because the young composer’s peer-group fan club were vociferously present at Glasgow City Halls. The Glasgow University...
Bearsden Choir – Haydn and Mozart 4*
THE last two years have proved challenging for singers. So it was for the 130-strong Bearsden Choir, a fine and much-expanded amateur choir who have spent the Covid years coming together virtually in solitude, or masked-up and so socially distanced that only half the...