If you are new visitor to our web-site, or unfamiliar with music at Milton Keynes City Church, you may want to have a look at photographs of previous concerts or browse previous programmes to give you a flavour of the wide range of concerts, recitals, talks and services that take place at the Church. Copies of many of these pictures are available from David Hemming on 01908 240460 or via David's web-site.

Photo album - previous concerts at Milton Keynes City Church



September 2009 - July 2010 Programme

The programme offered a superb programme of Baroque and Romantic music including Bach's Mass in B Minor & Haydn's Nelson Mass. The Summer brought a veritable Choral Festival with concerts by Polymnia, The Clerks and the Sixteen as well as our own Choirs who gave a wonderful performance of Rutter's Magnificat at the end of the season.

The ‘Exploring Music’ series looked at outstanding British composers of the twentieth century including Berg, Bartok, Britten, Hindemith, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.

Our ‘Musical Milestones’ series of monthly illustrated talks celebrated the anniversaries of Barber, Handel, Purcell, Schumann.  The series also included an exploration of the works of Bloch, Kodaly Martinu and Suk.

A copy of the complete September 2009 - July 2010 Programme is available: September 2009 - July 2010
August 2008 - July 2009 Programme

Orchestral highlights included Rachmaninov 3rd Piano Concerto and Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Major choral works included Handel Messiah and Brahms Requiem. July saw a wonderful performance of David Fanshawe's African Sanctus.

Our ‘Musical Milestones’ series of monthly illustrated talks celebrated the anniversaries of Haydn and Mendelssohn.  The series also included an exploration of the works of Elliott Carter, Gorecki, Ethel Smyth and Stockhausen.

The ‘Exploring Music’ series continued to illuminate the outstanding British composers of the twentieth century including Bax, Finzi, Tippett and Walton.

A copy of the complete August 2008 - July 2009 programme is available: August 2008 - July 2009 Programme

September 2007 - March 2008 Programme

Major concerts included Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 coupled with Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and Bach's St John Passion.

Our ‘Musical Milestones’ series of monthly illustrated talks celebrated the anniversaries of Korngold, Rimsky Korsakov and Messiaen.  The series also included an exploration of the works of three great French organist-composers Widor, Vierne and Langlais whose anniversaries have recently been celebrated.

The ‘Exploring Music’ series featured great English composers of the twentieth centenary including the music of Gustav Holst and Franck Bridge.

A copy of the complete September 2007 - March 2008 programme is available: September 2007 - March 2008 Programme

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