Since the appointment of our current Music Director, David Gibson, we have
performed
some outstanding masterpieces of choral music.
Saturday 27th
November 1999
David Gibson's inaugural concert, performing
Janacek's mighty Glagolitic Mass and Bruckner's Te
Deum, accompanied by the Philharmonia
Orchestra.
Saturday 4th March
2000
A concert
of English music: Holst's Hymn of Jesus and Vaughan
Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, with the London Mozart Players.
Saturday 20th May
2000
One of the central items
in the choral repertory, and one with which we have a
particular association, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, accompanied
by the New London Sinfonia.
Saturday 18th November 2000
A performance of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor and Haydn's
Te Deum, with the London Mozart Players.
Saturday 3rd March 2001
Brahms' Song of Destiny and German Requiem with
the New London Sinfonia, conducted by David Gibson.
Saturday 19th May 2001
The Croydon Philharmonic Choir joined forces with the Wimbledon
Choral Society to bring you Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by S. Coleridge-Taylor
and Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, accompanied by the New Queen's Hall
Orchestra.
Saturday 17th November 2001
The Croydon Philharmonic Choir performed Verdi's Requiem
from memory, with the New London Sinfonia, under the direction of the choir's Music
Director, David Gibson.
Saturday 2nd March 2002
The Croydon Philharmonic Choir performed an abridged version of Gilbert and Sullivan's
Iolanthe, together with a selection of your
favourite numbers from their other operettas, with members
of the New D'Oyly Carte company, under the direction of the choir's Music
Director, David Gibson.
Saturday 18th May 2002
The Croydon Philharmonic Choir presented Haydn's most famous
oratorio, The Creation, in conjunction with the London Mozart Players,
under the direction of the choir's Music Director, David Gibson.
