Amici del Canto

Choir and Instrumental Ensemble

Based in North Wales and
presenting beautiful
choral music from the
Renaissance, through the
Baroque Era and up until
today’s composers.

Repertoire

A   distinctly British flavour runs through our repertoire for this year with our chosen composers being either British by birth or, in the case of Handel, very much adopted by the British.

Montage of George Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten & Henry Purcell.

[L-R] George Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten & Henry Purcell.

Our full repertoire is already very extensive and includes works by the following composers:

  • Orlando di Lasso (1532 - 1594)
  • William Byrd (1540 - 1623)
  • Thomas Morley (c.1557 - 1603)
  • Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
  • John Farmer (c.1570 - 1601)
  • John Wilbye (1574 - 1638)
  • Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
  • Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
  • Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
  • George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
  • Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
  • Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
  • Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
  • ...as well as specially commissioned works.

The above list is constantly changing as we further extend our repertoire with new, exciting and challenging pieces.

Highlights of 2008

~ Summer ~

Jesu, Priceless Treasure
Johann Sebastian Bach

also music by:

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Henry Purcell
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • John Wilbye
  • John Farmer

~ Winter & Christmas ~

To be confirmed