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Saturday
25 Feb 2006
@ 7:30pm

Mozart Anniversary Concert I
Mozart Symphony 31 in D  "Paris"
Mozart Piano Concerto 17 in G K453
Mozart Piano Concerto
25 in C K503
Mozart Les Petits Riens

Cathedral Orchestra
Timothy Horton
Piano

Anthony Shorrocks Conductor

Sponsored by The Rodney Street Association
The Rodney Street Association

Crypt Concert Room
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
1 April 2006
@ 7:30pm

Lenten Concert Seven Last Words Haydn Symphony 44 in E Minor "Trauer" 
Haydn Seven Last Words on the Cross
Palestrina Stabat Mater

Victoria Tenebrae Responses - Excerpts

Cathedral Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir
Richard Lea Conductor

Sponsored by
Hayes & Finch

Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
29 April 2006
@ 7:30pm

Ikon click for more information
Tchaikovsky St John Crysostum extracts
Rachmaninov All night Vigil Vespers extracts
Stravinsky 3 pieces for solo Clarinet
Mark Simpson New Work 1st performance
Gorecki Totus Tuus
Stravinsky Pater Noster,  Ave Maria
Traditional Slavonic Folk Medleys

Cathedral Cantata Choir
Instrumental Ensemble
Chris Perry Dulcimer
Mark Simpson Clarinet
Richard Lea Conductor

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Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Cathedral Stained Glass

CONGRATULATIONS to Mark Simpson
 BBC Young Musician of the Year 
Mark participated in our Ikon Concert which included the
first performance of his composition, a setting of a poem by the Russian Boris Slutsky

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Monday
1 May 2006
@ 3:30pm

Liverpool Organ Day
Mozart Overture to 'The Magic Flute', K620
Mozart Fantasia in F minor, K608
Eben Landscapes of Patmos for organ & percussion
Trustam Pastoral Interlude
Albinoni Adagio in G minor
J S Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
J S Bach Prelude, in B minor arr Siloti

Richard Lea  Organ
Terence Duffy 
Organ
Harry Percy,
percussion
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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One of three concerts - Other concerts at Anglican Cathedral and at St Margaret's Anfield

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The Organ Day concert was a rare chance to hear a virtuoso percussionist in combination with the organ(s!)
Eben's "Landscapes of Patmos" illustrate images from the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) written on the Isle of Patmos

Saturday
20 May 2006
@ 7:30pm

Mozart Anniversary Concert II
Mozart Symphony 41 "Jupiter" K551
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A K622
Mozart 3 So
ngs
Mozart Overture "Lucio Silla"K135

Cathedral Orchestra
Jacqueline Thomas
Clarinet
David Barclay Tenor

John Moseley
Piano
Anthony Shorrocks
Conductor

Sponsored by
BresnanWalsh
Chartered Accountants

Crypt Concert Room
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
10 June2006
@ 7:30pm

Voices and Brass
Vaughan Williams Valiant for Truth
                          O clap your hands
Parry I was glad when they said unto me
Walton Coronation Te Deum
Bruckner Ecce Sacerdos
Jongen  Mass Op 130
Durufle  Four Motets
Poulenc Exultate Deo
Bussey  Done is a battle

Chester Bach Singers
Chester Brass Ensemble
Martin Bussey,
conductor

Sponsored by
Dr P & Mrs M Bradley

Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
17 June 2006
@ 7:30pm

Piano Recital
Schoenburg Six little pieces Op 19
Mozart Fantasia in C Minor K396
Mozart Piano Sonata in F major K535
Chopin Nocturnes, Op 27
Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47
Chopin Nocturnes, Op 15 Nos 1 & 2
Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie A flat Op 61

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Timothy Horton Piano
^click here for pictures and biography
Crypt Concert Room
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
1 July 2006
@ 7:30pm

Mozart Anniversary Concert III
Mozart Symphony 39 E flat K 543
Mozart Requiem
Mozart Ave Verum Corpus

Cathedral Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir
Stephen Pratt 
Conductor

Sponsored by

The Rodney Street Association

Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
8 July 2006
@ 7:30pm

Choral Concert including
Parry
I was Glad
Andriessen
Exultate Deo
Handel
Coronation Anthems
Handel
Zadok the Priest
Joubert
O praise God
Sumsion
They that go down to the sea

Roden Boys Choir (Holland)Cathedral Choir
Rindtje te Wies
Director
Terence Duffy Director
Sietze de Vries Organ
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Admission Free

        

Sunday
9 July 2006
@ 3:00pm

Sunday Serenades

Cathedral Cantata Choir
Ged Callagher
conductor
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Slatey Road Merseyside, Map  

Saturday
22 July
@ 2.30pm

  ORGAN RECITAL Gerben Mourik (Holland)
Winner of 2005 St Alban’s Improvisation Competition
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Retiring Collection

Saturday
29 July
@ 2.30pm

  ORGAN RECITAL Shean Bowers
Organ Scholar Liverpool Cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Retiring Collection

Saturday
12 August
@ 2.30pm

  ORGAN RECITAL Philip White Jones
Winchester Cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Retiring Collection

Saturday
26 August
@ 2.30pm

  ORGAN RECITAL Peter Kwater
St Bartholomew Rainhill & former Organ Scholar
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Retiring Collection

Saturday
2 September @ 2.30pm

  ORGAN RECITAL Christopher McElroy
St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds & former Organ Scholar
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Retiring Collection

Saturday
9 September @ 2.30pm

  ORGAN RECITAL David Scott Thomas
St George’s, Stockport
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Retiring Collection

        

Saturday
23 Sep 2006
@ 7:30pm

Saints and Angels
Tchaikovsky  Cherubim's song
Duruflé  Tu es Petrus, Op 10 No 3
Palestrina 
 Tu es Petrus (6vv)
Tavener  Angels
Victoria  O quam gloriosum
Mulet   Toccata: Tu es Petra

Cathedral Choir
Richard Lea Cathedral Organist
Terence Duffy
Director of Music

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cunliffe surveyors
chartered surveyors 
cost consultants

Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
14 Oct 2006
@ 7:30pm

1956 Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising
Beethoven Egmont
Bartok Choral works
Haydn Piano Concerto in D
Kodály Intermezzo (Háry János) 
Kodály Missa Brevis

Cathedral Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir
Timothy Horton
Piano
Richard Lea Conductor
Note: this concert was  held in the Crypt Concert Room
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Sponsored by Dr Andrew Zsigmond Hon Consul to the Republic of Hungary

The Hungarian Ambassador addresses the audience

This Sell Out Concert was attended by
Archbishop Kelly,
the Hungarian Ambassador,
the Lord  Mayor and
Dr Andrew Zsigmond H
on Consul to the Republic of Hungary

Sunday
22 Oct 2006
@ 11:00pm

Solemn Mass

Cathedral Cantata Choir Metropolitan Cathedral  

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Saturday
18 Nov 2006
@ 7:30pm

Classics from Vienna II
Beethoven
Rondino in E flat
Mozart Violin Concerto in A
Beethoven Ro
mance No 1 in F
Suppe Overture "Morning Noon and Night in Vienna"
Johann Strauss "Emperor Waltz", "Perpetuum Mobile", "Blue Danube Waltz"

Cathedral Orchestra
Melanie Hill
Violin
Anthony Shorrocks Conductor

Sponsored by Sponsored by Gemini Print (Wigan) Ltd

Crypt Concert Room
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
2 Dec 2006
@ 7:30pm

Handel Messiah Rachel Russell Soprano
Jonathan Peter Kenny Counter-Tenor
Nicholas Mulroy Tenor
Cathedral Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir
Richard Lea Conductor

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Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Saturday
9 Dec 2006
@ 2:00pm

Afternoon Christmas Concert

Cathedral Cantata Choir
Mark Carney
Conductor
Birkenhead Central Library
Borough Road Birkenhead Wirral CH41 2XB
 

Saturday
9 Dec 2006
@ 3:30pm

 Afternoon Christmas Concert

Cathedral Cantata Choir
Jules Waring
piano
Mark Carney
Conductor
Williamson Art Gallery,  Slatey Road, Birkenhead,
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Sunday
10
Dec 2006
@ 7:30pm

2006 Cornerstone Festival
The Final Concert
celebrates the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.
Mozart: Requiem, K. 626
  Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477
  Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618
  Little Masonic Cantata, K. 623
The choirs of Liverpool Hope and Liverpool Universities,
The Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir 
Oratorio Orchestra

Vanessa Williamson mezzo Philip Duffy Tenor
Stephen Pratt Conductor
Hope at Everton
Shaw Street L3 8QB
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Saturday
16 Dec 2006
@ 7:30pm

Christmas Concert
Carols for Audience and Orchestra
Anderson Sleigh Ride
Britten's Ceremony of Carols
Mozart Toy Symphony
Pachelbel Canon
Vivaldi Largo (Winter) from Four Seasons

Boys of the Cathedral Choir
Cathedral Orchestra
Cathedral Cantata Choir
Terence Duffy Conductor
Mark Carney Conductor

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Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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Sunday
24 Dec 2006
@ 11:00pm

Midnight Mass live on BBC 1 TV

Cathedral Choir
Cathedral Brass

Richard Lea  Organ
Terence Duffy Director of Music
Metropolitan Cathedral
            
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