collaborations
With so many excellent choirs in Cambridge it is very exciting when different choirs join together for Evensongs, concerts and recordings.
Caius choir plays its full part in such collaborations which include regular Evensongs with Clare, St John’s and Sidney Sussex Colleges, and recordings with the choirs of King’s, Clare and St John’s Colleges (including a DVD of music by Poulenc).
Caius also participates in many of the larger choirs that are assembled from time to time to perform oratorio repertoire such as Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast or Verdi’s Requiem, perhaps with four or five choirs and a student or professional orchestra.
The choir also joins forces with choirs and orchestras outside Cambridge either as part of tours or for specific concerts.
More unusual collaborations take place from time to time such as a joint performance with Cambridge Contemporary Dance of music by Liszt or providing the chorus for Opera Northern Ireland’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo.
“Will we ever dare again to propose a performance of Handel’s Messiah in Bordeaux after hearing what the English can do? In mastering the sparkling virtuosic passages, the thirty students of the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, offer as wide an array of nuances as the thousand choristers of Sir Thomas Beecham.”