Concert Reviews
June 2022: Handel Israel in Egypt
Saturday 25 June 2022
The Mint Methodist Church, Exeter
Anyone coming along to the concert and expecting a concert of gentle, Baroque music was in for a shock at the Mint Methodist Church last night.
April 2022: 'Tis Nature's Voice
Saturday 2 April 2022
St Michael and All Angels Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter
‘Tis Nature’s voice was the theme of this collaborative and ambitious concert and the choir of Exeter Festival Chorus was certainly in very fine voice.
December 2021: On this Shining Night
Saturday 11 December 2021
Southernhay United Reformed Church, Exeter
What an inspirational evening! The excellence of Exeter Festival Chorus is well-known, and tonight was no exception. After an absence of almost two years, and following the retirement of the remarkable and cherished Nigel Perrin (guest of honour at this concert), On this Shining Night heralded a new dawn with newly appointed musical director, Andrea Brown.
October 2021: Hope, Renewal and Inspiration
Saturday 9 October 2021
Exeter Cathedral
“A fabulous performance … as people were leaving at the end of the concert, you could feel the buzz and excitement …
November 2019: Saints and Angels
Saturday 23 November 2019
St David's Church, Exeter
Kieran White - tenor
Peter King - organ
David Ogden - guest conductor
To perform a concert to such a high standard on only three rehearsals with a guest conductor is an indication of the continuing excellence of the Exeter Festival Chorus.
July 2019: Vivaldi Gloria & Mozart Mass in C minor
Saturday 13 July 2019
Exeter Cathedral
Rhiannon Llewellyn - soprano
Anna Sideris - soprano
Catherine King - contralto
Kieran White - tenor
Rob Clark - baritone
Nigel Perrin - conductor
Two choral classics were presented to a full Cathedral by Exeter Festival Chorus on a balmy summer’s evening.
April 2019: Miserere
Saturday 6 April 2019
St Michael's Church, Exeter
It was encouraging to see St Michael’s church well-filled for this Exeter Festival Chorus concert, a programme of music for Lent entitled “Miserere”.
December 2018: Peace on Earth
Saturday 15 December 2018
Exeter Cathedral
Baritone Roderick Williams OBE
Band of HM Royal Marines, CTCRM
Conductor Nigel Perrin
This concert, given in aid of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal for the armed forces charity SSAFA, aimed to bring together three disparate themes: World War I, Christmas, and the choir’s own 25th anniversary.
October 2018: An Evening with J S Bach
Saturday 20 October 2018
Sidmouth Parish Church
It was an imaginative idea to present four of Bach’s wonderful motets in a single programme, interspersed with two of his French Suites.
July 2018: Claudio Monteverdi Vespers 1610
Saturday 14 July 2018
Exeter Cathedral
It was with a sense of excited anticipation that I sat in a very warm Exeter Cathedral awaiting the start of one of the greatest choral works ever written, confident that Nigel Perrin and the EFC would deliver a credible performance.