2024 - 2025 Season

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Spring Concert 2025

From Darkness to Light

• Requiem: Sir John Rutter
• Missa Brevis: Benjamin Britten
• Blest Pair of Sirens: C Hubert H Parry
• Excerpts from Messe cum jubilo: Maurice Duruflé​
• Michael Bawtree Conductor
• Joseph Beech Organ
• Edinburgh Pro Musica Ensemble
• Timpani from Heriot's

Saturday 15 March 2025, 7:30pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Tickets £20 (£5 students) are available from TicketSource or at the door.  Programmes will be available free of charge, or can be downloaded here.

Join ERCU at Greyfriars Kirk as we present works reflecting the transition from winter to spring.

Sir John Rutter’s Requiem has enjoyed immense popularity since it was first performed in 1985. His aim was to create a small-scale work focusing on consolation and the journey from darkness to light. According to Gramophone Review, “as Requiems go, this is among the shorter and simpler ones; it is also among the most beautiful”.

Set for three-part treble choir and organ, Britten’s Missa Brevis is one of his most performed and well-loved works for upper voices. It has been described as incredibly fresh and original, and an undoubted masterpiece. We will also perform excerpts from Duruflé’s Messe cum jubilo, a striking liturgical work scored for a men’s chorus.

Also in the programme is Parry’s Blest pair of sirens, one of the outstanding English choral works.

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Season Overview

2024

Come and Sing

Brahms Requiem
​Saturday 07 September
10 am to 5:30pm
St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

Brahms Requiem

Ronald Center:
Dona Nobis Pacem
Charles Villiers Stanford:
For lo, I raise up
​Saturday 16 November, 7:30pm, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

Christmas with the Choral

Carols for All to Sing
​Saturday 14 December, 5pm
Morningside Parish Church

2025

New Year Messiah

Thursday 02 January, 12 noon, Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Spring Concert

From Darkness to Light
Rutter: Requiem
Britten: Missa Brevis
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
Duruflé: Messe cum jubilo
Saturday 15 March
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Tickets available from TicketSource or at the door

Summer Concert

Handel: Dixit Dominus
JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Fraser David Macdonald: Butterflies
JS Bach: Missa Brevis in A
Saturday 24 May
​St Cuthbert’s, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

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Past Concerts

To read reviews of previous concerts, click here.