St Mary's is host to many wonderful events and concerts throughout the year, why not organise your visit around an event? Use the inputs below to filter the events by date.
Mark Swinton, organ (St Mary's, Warwick)
The Music of the Coronation
A concert to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Year including music by Parry, Stanford, Handel, Walton, Gibbons, Byrd and Vaughan Williams.
Petra Gries, piano and organ (Völklingen, Germany)
Castalia (Clive Letchford, director)
Choral Pilgrimage 2022
The Sixteen’s Choral Pilgrimage is a powerful and emotional programme of English choral music. Centred around Hubert Parry's heartfelt Songs of Farewell, the tour also explores music by Campion, Howells, and award-winning composer Cecilia McDowall.
Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell must surely rank among some of the finest choral works ever written. Deeply affected by the First World War, Parry sought poetry that would reflect not only peace and unity and the search for a better world, but also an escape from the horrors of war.
The poems Parry chose to set are sublime, be they metaphysical poetry by John Donne and Henry Vaughan or the aching beauty of Thomas Campion’s verse. Perfectly complementing the rich sonority of Parry’s Songs are three short pieces by Campion, a selection of medieval carols and a new work by Cecilia McDowall.
Programme
Parry Songs of Farewell
mediaeval carol Deo gracias, Anglia
mediaeval carol Saint Thomas honour we
mediaeval carol O blessed Lord
mediaeval carol Benedicite Deo
Cecilia McDowall An Unexpected Shore
Campion Never, weather-beaten sail
Campion Author of light
Campion Tune thy music to thy heart
Howells Take him, earth for cherishing
https://thesixteen.com/event/the-choral-pilgrimage-2022-warwick/
Matthew Howell, organ (St Mary's, Warwick)
Gillian Blair saxophone
Roger Coull conductor
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Vaughan Williams
Dancing Fish – Cecilia McDowall
Scaramouche – Milhaud
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 – Schumann
Julian Thomas, organ (Tonbridge School)
Collegium Warwick
with the Beauchamp Sinfonietta
Director: Oliver Hancock
Organist: Adrian Moore
Mass in G Schubert
Organ concerto 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' Handel
Cantata 147 J.S. Bach
Colin Druce, organ (Warwick School)
Concert by the Choirs of St Mary’s Collegiate Church
with the Beauchamp Sinfonietta
Director Oliver Hancock
Mark Swinton organ
Music by Parry, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Willan, and Brahms.
Tickets available from 9th May 2022.
CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of the world’s longest reigning Monarch, Armonico Consort will recreate the highlights of the Coronation Service of Queen Elizabeth II in this unique concert performance.
Armonico Consort and Baroque Players
Director Christopher Monks
The Choirs of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Narrated by former Royal Correspondent Nicholas Owen
Programme highlights include:
Parry I was glad
Handel Zadok the Priest
Walton Coronation Te Deum
Vaughan Williams Creed (Mass in G minor)
The National Anthem (arr. Jacobs)
Young Musicians from Warwick School
Romance and Rhyme
Poetry in music for a cappella choir.
Words by Blake, Lear, Silvestri and others, with music by Paul Mealor, Eric Whitacre and many more.
John Adams Conductor
A Vaughan Williams Legacy
George Gillow and Samuel Jones, organ
Graham Ross, conductor
Programme celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams alongside motets and anthems from England and America, including works by local composers William Denis Browne and Howard Skempton.
Andrew Kirk, organ (St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol)
Oriflamme Amnesty Opera Ensemble
with singers from Coventry Philharmonic Chorus
Soloists Eleanor Parsons, Rose Rowley, Caitlin Suffield, Richard Lloyd Owen, John Kiefert
Antoine Mitchell conductor
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana – concert performance
Puccini Le Villi – Act One
Puccini Edgar - Questo amor
Puccini La Bohème (Acts 1 and 14)
A guided tour can be arranged to show you round if you request this at least a week in advance. Tours cost £5 per person (under 16s free) and will last approximately 60 minutes. It may be possible to arrange a tour outside our normal opening hours. Our knowledgable guides will bring the story of St Mary's to life and will be able to answer you may have about the building and its history. Learn more about the history of the church.
We regret that the tower is not currently open to the public.
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