| Gatley Concert Itinerary December 13th, St James' Church, Gatley at 7.30pm Plainchant, Te Deum (tenors and basses) John Hawkins: For These Jeffrey Lewis: Ave Maria Jeffrey Lewis: Fons Amoris (first performance) Verdi: Ave Maria and Laudi alla Vergine Maria (the latter sops and altos) Poulenc: Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue (tenors and basses) Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum Lymm Sunday 3rd July
Parry - I was glad Parry - My soul, there is a country Elgar - The shower John Hawkins - Sweet day
Gary Carpenter - The rapture
Vaughan Williams - Five mystical songs
INTERVAL 
Handel - The King shall rejoice Wilbye - Weep mine eyes Sullivan - The long day closes
Handel - My heart is inditing
Gibbons - The silver swan
Stanford - The bluebird
Handel - Zadok the priest
Albion Saturday 25th June Handel - Zadok the priest
Stanford - The bluebird
 Parry - My soul, there is a country
Sullivan - The long day closes
Elgar - The shower
John Hawkins - Sweet day
Gary Carpenter - The rapture
John Sullivan - Do not stand
Vaughan Williams - Easter; Antiphon
INTERVAL
Vivaldi - Gloria
Parry - I was glad
Music by Champion - Never weather-beaten sail : Proctor-Gregg - Tune Thy Music to Thyne Heart: Parry - Never weather-beaten sail: Instrumental - John R Williamson - Loveliest of Trees & When I was One and Twenty: Instrumental - Howells - Requiem excerpt & Requiem Aeternum 1 : Vaughan Williams - Sweet Day: Elgar - The Shower: John Hawkins - Sweet Day: Parry - My Soul, there is a country: Instrumental - Gary Carpenter - The Rapture: Holst - The Evening Watch.
Summer Music : Britten, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Elgar and Dufay. Click here for on-line programme.
Sunday 13 December 2009, 7.30 pm, St Peter's Church, Oughtrington A programme of music for Christmas with guests the Metropolitan Brass Ensemble and Chere Ko, organ Traditional carols (with audience participation) and carol arrangements by Philip Spratley Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter Holst: Lullay My Liking Tavener: The Lamb Howells: Here is the Little Door
Saturday 20 June 2009, 7.30pm, Holy Innocents' Church, Fallowfield With guests Rebecca Chellappah, mezzo-soprano, and Mutian Xu, piano, performing traditional Chinese songs and settings of Chinese poetry by Bantock and Lennox Berkeley Copland: Four Motets Barber: Reincarnations Stravinsky: Pater Noster Stravinsky: Credo Stravinsky: Ave Maria Howells: Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
arr. Holst: Four Welsh Folk Songs (O ‘twas on a Monday morning, White summer rose, The first love, The Mother-in law) arr. Philip Spratley: Four Carols (Winter Carol, Eckington Carol, Ascension God is Ascended) arr. Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Sunday 9 November 2008, 3pm, Imperial War Museum North, The Quays, Trafford Park Remembrance Sunday - 90th Anniversary of the end of the Great War Parry: from Songs of Farewell: My Soul, There is a Country I Know My Soul Hath Power Never Weather-beaten Sail There is an Old Belief At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners
Saturday 18 October 2008, 7.30pm, St Ann's Church, St Ann's Square, Manchester North West Composers Association Concert Stuart Scott: These Days Joanna Treasure: Our birth is but a sleep Joanna Treasure: Early, bright, transient John Reeman: Agnus Dei (from Missa Brevis) John Ramsden Williamson: Kyrie (from Missa Brevis) David Forshaw: Blake's Joy John Ramsden Williamson: When I was one and twenty Michael Cutting: Bonne pensée du matin Colin Bayliss: A Christmas Lullaby David Solomons: Alleyways Joanna Treasure: Time's Stave David Ellis: Autumn Light
Saturday 18 February 2006, 7.30pm, Manchester Cathedral A Glimpse of Infinity David Jones, piano Jeffrey Makinson, organ Jeffrey Lewis: Musica Aeterna (first performance) Jeffrey Lewis: Sacred Chants (first complete performance)
| | Sunday 13th March 2011: Philip Spratley recordings, Stockport. Alteri recorded a number of Carols composed by Philip Spratley, a CD will soon be available for purchase.   Recording session in Stockport
With John Turner, recorder A celebration of 750 years of Stockport Market, including music by composers associated with Stockport, with music by Douglas Steele, David Ellis and Peter Hope.
In Paradisum With Gethin Davies-Jones, organ Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium Vierne: Adagio from Symphony No 3 Saint-Saëns: Calmes des nuits, Les fleurs et les arbres (Deux choeurs) Duparc: Benedicat Vobis Dominus Fauré: Requiem
Saturday 26 September 2009, 7.30pm, St Margaret's Church, Dunham  Autumn Light
Jeffrey Makinson, organ Copland: Four Motets Stravinsky: Ave Maria Stravinsky: Pater Noster Purcell: Funeral Sentences David Ellis: Autumn Light arr. Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time David Ellis: Sequentia V (Genesis) Purcell: Thou knowest, Lord Barber: Reincarnations Howells: Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing Handel: Three Choruses from Messiah (For unto us a son is born, Hallelujah, Worthy is the Lamb)
Sunday 13 December 2008, 7.30pm, St Peter's Church, Oughtrington
Winter Around The World With guests Northern Horizons (Hyun-Jin Lee, soprano, Noriko Tsuzaki, violin, Catarina Ferreira, cello, Mutian Xu, piano) performing music by Handel, Puccini, Piazzolla, Pietro Yon and the first performance of Snowscape by Gillian Menichino Plainchant: Angelus ad virginum Traditional French: Il est né, le divin Enfant Traditional Neapolitan: Quando nascette Ninno Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, with Louise Thomson, harp Traditional French: Noël nouvelet! Traditional Provençal: Ce matin j’ai rencontré le train Peter Warlock: Six Carols (Balulalow, As dew in Aprille, Bethlehem Down, Cornish Carol, I saw a fair maiden, Benedicamus Domino) Traditional carols (with audience participation)
Sunday 6 July 2008, 7.30pm, United Reformed Church, Lymm An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan With guests Emma Peaurt, soprano, Simon Crosby-Buttle, tenor, and Benjamin Weaver, baritone Choruses, ensembles, solos and duets from The Mikado, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, Ruddigore, The Grand Duke and Utopia, Ltd. Piano solo - Twilight Partsong - The Long Day Closes
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