Our next concert:
Every Song a Story: French and English verse set by Debussy, Finzi, Poulenc and McDowall

Saturday 13th June 2026, 7:30pm
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Witney, OX7 5NA

The North Cotswold Chamber Choir welcomes back Guest Conductor Edward Caswell and Organist Colin Millington, both of whom last performed with us at our Christmas Concert in 2023.

We will take you through a songbook of stories from Robert Bridges, Charles D’Orleans and traditional French verse. Set to music by Finzi, Debussy and Poulenc, with additional delight of Cecilia McDowall’s setting of the Shipping Forcast.

Programme

To include:
Claude Debussy Trois Chansons de Charles D’Orleans
Gerald Finzi from Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
Cecilia McDowall The Shipping Forecast
Francis Poulenc Huit chansons francaises
John Willbye Draw on, sweet Night

For information on access to the venue, please contact hello@nc3.org.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Roger Stein, who died last year, and was a much loved and respected member of the choir for 23 years. Roger always bubbled with enthusiasm, and his deep love of music shone through. On the tenor line of North Cotswold Chamber Choir, he was a wonderful asset: a strong and fine voice, highly musical, very hot on text, sharing his professional knowledge as a teacher of languages, and above all generous-spirited to all around him during and beyond rehearsals and performances.  ‘Stalwart’ is a word often carelessly used; but Roger was the truest stalwart to North Cotswold Chamber Choir.

Details of our programmes for recent concerts can be found here.

Repertoire

Examples of the wide-ranging repertoire the choir sings can be found here.