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Purchasing a season ticket gives you the best chance of getting tickets for all HCS concerts and being able to choose the seats you prefer. Season tickets include the annual Messiah as well as the spring and autumn concerts and represent a great saving on individual tickets.
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What better start to the Christmas season than rousing singing and a brass band? This year, HCS welcomes back on stage its own Youth Choirs for a concert full of festive treats. For those who’ve never experienced The Choral, this is the perfect introduction to HCS. There’ll be powerful singing, exquisite hushed moments, foot-tapping band numbers – and of course the opportunity to raise the town hall roof yourselves.Booking opens 9 am on Tuesday, 15 September 2026
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Recognised as HCS’s signature piece, Messiah, is probably the most celebrated choral work – and for many, the start of Christmas proper. This year we welcome Charlotte Corderoy, a young conductor with a stellar future, to put her own stamp on the work. Charlotte is already building an international reputation and was Critics’ Circle Conductor of the Year in 2025. You won’t want to miss it.
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For our spring concert we return to Duruflé's Requiem, an atmospheric and deeply reflective work, performed only twice by the Society, latterly in 2012. Also in the programme is Imogen Holst’s Three Psalms. HCS performed the first of these, Psalm 80, 'Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel', in November 2024 to audience delight, so we welcome the opportunity to revisit this with her settings of Psalm 56, 'Be merciful unto me, O God' and Psalm 91, 'He that dwelleth in the secret place'.
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Friday Night Is Music Night is the world's longest-running live orchestral music radio programme – having been first broadcast in 1953. Its lynchpin is the BBC Concert Orchestra and the programmes feature many types of music, including classical, light, film, theatre, songs from the musicals, and opera and operetta. One of its biggest appeals is its unpredictable playlist, which is left unrevealed until broadcast. For that reason, we can’t tell you what the programme will be. You’ll just have to come along and find out!
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