CLASSICAL: A choice of choral concerts

Yorkshire has more choral societies than any other part of England, with thirty, of various shape and size, readily springing to mind, though I guess there are many more if I keep delving.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Mar 2017, 07:06 BST
Updated 24th Mar 2017, 11:02 BST
IN GOOD VOICE: York Music Society will be performing in the Minster.IN GOOD VOICE: York Music Society will be performing in the Minster.
IN GOOD VOICE: York Music Society will be performing in the Minster.

Inevitably we are sometimes faced with a clash of dates for concerts we really must hear, but it is going to be a mighty difficult decision when the Ripon Choral Society offer A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams in their Cathedral 
on April 1, while on the same evening the Hull Choral Union join with other choirs from both sides of the Humber to perform this seldom heard work in the City Hall as part of Hull’s City of Culture year.

If that were not enough I would be very tempted that evening by York Music Society who offer Handel’s Israel in Egypt in the Minster.

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Neither does the Wakefield-based Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir make life easy by selecting April 8 for their performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, while, proverbially ‘up the road’, the Wetherby Choral Society present Monteverdi’s Vespers in their compact St James Church.

Thankfully the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus bring no such problem with Elgar’s The Music Makers in their Leeds Town Hall concert featuring the Leeds-born cellist, Tim Hugh, in Elgar’s Cello Concerto (March 25).

Ripon tickets from 07736 759930; Hull Choral Union 01482 300306; York Music Society 01904 623568 and Leeds Philharmonic Chorus 0113 3760318.

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