Thursday 10th January

Organ Recital at Wells Cathedral

Music by Buxtehude, Reger, Mendelssohn and Vierne

at 1.05pm



Sunday 13th January

at 8pm

Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

Canzona conducted by Richard Tanner

Rugby School Memorial Chapel



Saturday 2nd February

11am-4pm

Choirtraining Workshop

for The Royal College of Organists

Directed by Richard Tanner

St Wulfram's Church, Grantham


Friday 15th February

at 7.30pm

Bach, Handel and Mozart by Candlelight

St Martin-in-the-Fields

St Martin's Voices

Brandenburg Sinfonia

organ continuo, Richard Tanner

conducted by Andrew Earis



Sunday 17th February

Choral Eucharist

Guest Music Director

Trinity Church Princeton, USA

Thursday 28th March

Concerto Concert

Musically gifted pupils from Rugby School perform with a professional orchestra

programme to include:

  • Polonaise de Concert for 'cello, by David Popper
  • “Adieu notre petite table” from Manon by
    Massenet & “Habañera” from Carmen by Bizet
  • Concerto for 2 Flutes, by Cimarosa
  • first movement from Tuba concerto, by Gregson
  • first movement from Rachmaninoff’s second Piano Concerto
  • second movement from Piano concerto no. 2 by Shostakovich
  • 3rd movement from Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Bliss Sinfonia conducted by Richard Tanner 



Sunday 7th April:

BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship

broadcast live from St Martin-in-the-Fields

at 8.10am

St Martin's Voices

directed by Richard Tanner

Wednesday 24th April:

BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong

broadcast live from Rugby School Chapel

  • Introit: Rise up my love (Healey Willan)
  • Responses: Radcliffe
  • Psalm 119, 1-32 (Goss, Warborough, Walker, Barnby)
  • Isaiah 26 vv.1-19
  • Office Hymn: Jesus lives! thy terrors now (St Albinus)
  • Canticles: Stanford in C
  • John 20 vv.1-10
  • Blessed be the God and Father, S S Wesley
  • Hymn: Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky (Lasst uns erfreuen)
  • Voluntary: Toccata from Suite Gothique, Léon Boëllmann

The Choir of Rugby School

James Williams, organist

directed by Richard Tanner



Sunday 28th April:

BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship

at 8.10am

recorded in Rugby School Chapel on Wednesday 24th April

The Choir of Rugby School

directed by Richard Tanner



Wednesday 11th December:

BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong

recorded in Rugby School Chapel on Tuesday 23rd April

  • Introit: O Radiant Dawn (James Macmillan)
  • Responses: Radcliffe
  • Psalms 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, Howells, Stainer)
  • Amos 9 vv.11-15
  • Office Hymn: Creator of the stars of night (Conditor alme)
  • Canticles: Collegium Regale (Howells)
  • Romans 13 vv.8-14
  • All Wisdom cometh from the Lord (Philip Moore)
  • Hymn: O Come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
  • Voluntary: Fantasy on Veni Emmanuel, Op. 72 No. 5, Kenneth Leighton

The Choir of Rugby School

Greg Morris, organist

directed by Richard Tanner