The Next SPS Concert
The next SPS concert, A Season to Sing, will be on Saturday 14th June 2025 at 3:00pm at St Francis Church, Bournville B30 2AA.
A choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s enduringly popular The Four Seasons. Composed for 2025 by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange in the 300th anniversary year of Vivaldi’s most famous work, A Season to Sing weaves into these well-loved melodies various texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter! As one of the 55 international commissioning choirs, SPS is excited to perform this work to celebrate the centenary of St Francis’ Church.
Previous SPS Concerts
Browse through our previous concerts below, our archive now goes right back to 2009.
Click on the concert titles to see full details of some of our past concerts on Classical Events
November 2024: Alleluia
April 2024: The Power of Music
‘The Power of Music’ – a rousing and challenging four section composition by Dennis Pim- bowled me over with its combination of exquisite harmonies and technical excellence.
Ann Day – Audience member
April 2024 Concert is reviewed here… and a further review here…
July 2023: Who Could Ask For Anything More?
Such a good atmosphere as always, and such an enjoyable variety of music. The Pilgrim’s chorus was particularly striking in its great whoosh of powerful sound…amazing what the choir can produce…but so was the technical mastery of Cole Porter and Gershwin by the choir…
AW – audience member
July 2023 Who Could Ask For Anything more? concert is reviewed here…
July 2022: A Summer Celebration
July 2022 A Summer Celebration concert is reviewed here…
March 2020: The Spring Collection
With much regret and after much deliberation the Selly Park Singers Committee decided to cancel the Saturday 14th March 2020 concert in light of the unfolding Coronavirus pandemic. Read more about what SPS did next during the lockdowns
June 2019: Petite Messe Solennelle
November 2018: Parry by Moonlight
June 2018: Lunchtime Concert at St George’s Church, Edgbaston
Programme:
Brahms:
How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place
Der Gang zum Liebchen
Andante from Clarinet Sonata no 1 in F minor
Bach:
Subdue us by thy Goodness
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Haydn:
The Heavens are Telling
Achieved is the Glorious Work
Selly Park Singers
Paul Carr: Musical Director
Dick Price: Accompanist
Peter Gosling: Clarinet
March 2018 Heaven and Earth
July 2017: Summer at the Musicals
December 2016: Lunchtime Concert at St George’s Church, Edgbaston
November 2016: Glorious Contrasts
March 2016: Green Shoots
Concert archive – SPS Concerts before 2016
