Concerts and performances
St Michael & All Angels is one of the busiest church music venues in west London. It's also one of the most convenient, close to Turnham Green tube station. Please see the Links page for details of music groups which regularly perform at St Michael's.
St Michael's is the home of the Bedford Park Recital Series, featuring international concert performers, and the Bach Cantatas, a unique Millennium project, due for completion in 2010.
Forthcoming Concerts
Sunday 12th September at 7.30pm - Bach Cantatas
BWV 173 Erhontes Fleisch und Blut
BWV 98 Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgeten
BWV 181 Leichgesinnte Frattergeister
West London Bach Consort
Conductor: Sandy Burnett
Admission: Free
Retiring Collection in aid of the Upper Room
For details of further recitals in this series see Bach Cantatas
Saturday 23rd October at 7.30pm - Capital Chorus
Barber Shop Concert
A variety show including choral and quartet barbershop singing
Ticket details to be announced
Saturday 6th November at 7.30pm -Ealing Youth Orchestra
Programme and ticket details to be announced
Previous Concerts and performances in 2010
Thursday July 15th at 7pm
Saturday Specialist School 25th Anniversary Concert
In aid of the Marcus Memorial Fund
Tickets available on the door £6 (concessions £4)
For further information please contact:
Hounslow Music Service 02085832967
Sunday July 11th at 3.30pm (note change of time)- Bach Cantatas
BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust
BWV 16 Herr Gott, dich loben wir
West London Bach Consort
Conductor: Sandy Burnett
Admission: Free
Retiring Collection in aid of the Upper Room
For details of further recitals in this series see Bach Cantatas
Sunday 13th June at 7.30pm (Bedford Park Festival) - Bach Cantatas
BWV 30 Freue dich, erlöste Schar
BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht
West London Bach Consort
Conductor: Sandy Burnett
Admission: Free
Retiring Collection in aid of the Upper Room
Sunday May 9th at 7.30pm - Bach Cantatas
BWV 41 Jesu, nun sei gepreiset
BMV 79 Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild
West London Bach Consort
Conductor: Sandy Burnett
Admission: Free
Retiring Collection in aid of the Upper Room
Sunday March 28th at 7.30pm: Palm Sunday Meditation
A recital by Raffaele Pe (counter tenor) with the West London Bach Consort & Players
Organ: Jonathan Dods
Vivaldi Stabat Mater
Bach: Widerstehe doch der sunde BMV 54
Admission free:retiring collection for St Michael's Lent Appeal)
Saturday 20 March at 7.30pm - Addison Singers Classical Concert 2010
Addison Singers (Oratorio & Chamber Choirs) - conductor David Wordsworth
Programme includes:
Requiem: Faure
'Eternal Light' Howard Goodall
'Salve Regina' and 'Exultate Jubilo' Poulenc
'Ave Maria' Philip Maze
'Salve Regina' Gabriel Jackson
(see www.addison-singers.org.uk for further details)
Saturday 13 March at 7.30pm - Hogarth Singers Spring Concert 2010
Conductor David Everett
Programme to include:
Mass in E flat: Schubert
Sechs Spruche (6 seasonal motets): Mendelssohn
(see www.hogarth-singers.org )
Saturday 6 March at 7.30pm - Charity Concert for Richard Syred Music Bursary Fund
Syred Sinfonia and Consort - conductor Ben Palmer
J.S. Bach: St John Passion BMV 245
Tickets £12 Concessions £10 Students £5
Tel: 07974799004
(see www.thesyredconsort.co.uk )
Concerts and performances in 2009
Saturday December 19th at 7pm London Chorus Christmas Concert
In aid of Musequality, with the Melodi Music Trust from Soweto (see photo right), St Michael & All Angels Junior Choir, Jonathan Dods on the organ and readings by Niamh Cusack. Tickets £10, school-age children £4.
Thursday December 17th - 8pm Addison Singers Joint Carol Concert
Conductor: David Wordsworth Organist: Matthew Hough
An exciting Christmas Concert featuring all 4 choirs - Jazz Choir and Ensemble, Oratorio and Chamber Choirs - and including a selection of carols for choir and audience. Tickets on the door: £10 full, £8 concessions and £2 for under 16s
In advance: £9 full, £7 concessions and £2 for under 16s
Further details re ticket purchase
Sunday December 13th - 7.30pm Bach Cantatas
BMV 157 Ich lasse dich nicht , du segnest mich denn BMV 158 Der Friede sei mit dir BMV 197a Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe
Saturday December 12th - 6pm Hogarth Singers Family Carol Concert
with Belmont Primary School Choir. Tickets: £7 including refreshments. Children under 12 are free. You can reserve a ticket by calling 020 8994 2510.
Saturday December 5th - 7.30 Addison Singers Classical Concert
Oratorio Choir and Chamber choir conducted by David Wordsworth
Programme includes: Cecilia McDowall's 'Magnificat', and Handel Choruses from 'Israel & Egypt', 'Samson', 'Judas Maccabeus' and 'Zadok the Priest'
Tickets on the door: £10 full, £8 concessions and £2 for under 16s
In advance: £9 full, £7 concessions and £2 for under 16s
Further details re ticket purchase
Sunday November 22nd -
7.45 Cana Singers and Players 
Director: Giles Ridley
Handel: Alexander's Feast (semi dramatised)
Handel: Suite from Water Music
In aid of Cana School, Ethiopia - ADMISSION free with retiring collection
Sunday 15th November - 7.30 Bach Cantatas
BMV 109 Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben
BMV 91 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
In aid of The Upper Room - ADMISSION free with retiring collection
Saturday 7th November - 7.30 Ealing Youth Orchestra
Rossini: Semiramide
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Momentum
Borodin: Symphony No 2
Tickets £10 full, £8 concessions, Children 11 and under free
Further details re ticket purchase
Saturday 17th October - 7.30 West London Sinfonia
Conductor Philip Hesketh
Arvo Part: When Bach was a beekeeper
Dvorak: Cello Concerto: soloist Alice Neary
Brahms Symphony No 3
Tickets £12, concessions £10, under 16 £2 : available at the door
Sunday October 11th - 7.30
Bach Cantatas - BMV4 and BMV111 - West London Bach Consort and Players with St Michael's Junior Choir
Sunday September 13th - 7.30 Bach Cantatas
West London Bach Consort and Players conducted by Sandy Burnett (see below) performed BMV 101, Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott and BMV 28, Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende.
Admission was free with a retiring collection for projects supported by the Upper Room - a local charity that feeds the community in need in West London (infoupperroom@yahoo.co.uk)
Sunday July 12th- 7.30 Bach Cantatas
West London Bach Players and Consort, conducted by Sandy Burnett (below) . Admission free, retiring collection for the Upper Room (infoupperroom@yahoo.co.uk)
Saturday July 11th:7.30pm Addison Singers
Summer Concert
The Addison singers turn to folk and traditional music for their Summer Concert at St Michael and All Angels Church. The climax of the show is the Missa Criolla (written in 1964) by the Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez, in which popular and liturgical styles join hands across the centuries.
There is folk and traditional music from the UK with pieces by Timothy Salter and Percy Grainger, whilst John Rutter's Childhood Lyrics pay homage to familiar nursery rhymes. Familiar tunes are also the inspiration for John Gardner's Five Hymns in the Popular Style
Tickets: in advance £9, cons £7,U16 £2 www.wegottickets.co./f/807 or write to AGS Tickets Classical Concert, 1a Raynham Road, London W6 0HY
Saturday March 28th, 7.30pm: The Hogarth Singers
A
concert at St Michael & All Angels to mark two of the year's musical birthdays: Franz Joseph Haydn (Great Organ Mass in Eb), and Georg Frideric Handel (Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest). Plus the Mass in Bb by Haydn's successor at Esterháza, Johann Nepomuk Hummel. £10 (concessions £7) on the door, or 020 8994 2510, or at hogarthsingers@gmail.com. Details: http://www.hogarthsingers.org.
Saturday March 21st, 7.30 pm: The Addison Singers' Oratorio & Chamber Choir, with the Bernardi Chamber Orchestra, will perform at St Michael & All Angels Church: Ludwig van Beethoven, Mass in C; Morten Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna; Pablo Casals, O Vos Omnes. Tickets in advance - £9/Concs £7/U16 £2. On the door - £10/Cons £8/U16 £2. Before March 13th, from AGS Classical Concert, 1A Raynham Road, London W6 0HY, Tel 0208 741 7428. Cheques to 'The Addison Singers', include name, address, phone number and SAE. http://www.addison-singers.org.uk/index.htm
Thursday February 5th - the London Mozart Players return to St Michael's
immediately prior to their 60th Anniversary concert at Wigmore Hall. Programme and ticket prices here: http://www.lmp.org/Concerts/Archive/February/050209.htm
Saturday January 24th - from 7.30pm, a Concert for Musequality
Chiswick Baroque and David Juritz, leader of the London Mozart Players, will be giving a Concert for Musequality at St Michael & All Angels. Music from 14th to 21st century, including Lassus, Josquin, Schutz, Bach, folksongs and spirituals. Solo violin and violin with voice, as well as music for 5 voices. £10 with £8 concessions (price to be confirmed). http://www.chiswickbaroque.com/index.php/about-cb/ http://www.musequality.org/
Sunday January 4th - 7.30pm Epiphany concert.
Followed by refreshments, in aid of Cana Ethiopia. Giles Ridley writes:
"Singers and players from West London Bach Consort and Players and other friends will be performing a short part of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (the “shepherd” part), his Brandenburg Concerto No 5 (with soloists Louise and Patrick Grattan and Andrew Carter), starting and finishing with lovely motets in honour of the Blessed Virgin by Holst, Britten, Bruckner and the American composer Morten Lauridsen.
"It will be followed by an impromptu party for performers and audience upstairs, with drinks, light eats and a singalong. Free admission, but we will be collecting for CANA ETHIOPIA, which supports Cana school in Northern Ethiopia (where the Queen of Sheba may have hailed from). Do join us if you are free.”