Director: Theresa Caudle
“…..there is no other team of musicians that comes anywhere close and I can't imagine ever performing that glorious music with anyone else!”
Brian Kay, Leith Hill Musical Festival
Canzona very much enjoys working with choirs and can provide a baroque orchestra or smaller ensemble for choral works from the late renaissance and early baroque up to the late 18th century. We also offer appropriate “classical” instruments for performances of Mozart, Haydn and their contemporaries.
We have a wealth of experience in this area and have built up lasting relationships
with several choral societies, professional choruses and church and cathedral choirs.
We have built up a reputation not only for our fine playing and well-
“I was absolutely thrilled with the performance of Canzona -
“The soloists, audience and choir members have all described Canzona's performance as some of the finest period instrument orchestral playing that they have had the pleasure of hearing in many years. I wholeheartedly concur. It was an absolute privilege to work with you and your fabulous musicians.”
Christopher Finch, Bristol Bach Choir
Canzona is a flexible ensemble with a core of four string players and continuo team but, thanks to Theresa Caudle’s versatility in playing the cornett as well as violin, viola and viola d’amore, we encompass early wind and brass in our team and are thus in a position to provide a complete ensemble of cornetts, sackbuts, strings and continuo under one umbrella for Monteverdi’s Vespers and other splendid polychoral works of this period.
Apart from Monteverdi’s Vespers, the works for which we most frequently provide an orchestra are Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions, B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, and Handel’s Messiah. Other Handel oratorios such as Israel in Egypt, Alexander’s Feast and his Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day; Purcell’s odes and anthems and works by Charpentier and de Lalande have also featured in our concerts with choirs. We have often contributed orchestral items within choral programmes, normally directed by Theresa; pieces include the Bach Double Violin Concerto, Brandenburg Concerto no.3, and Concerti Grossi by Corelli or Handel.
For a list of our performances with choirs, please see below.
Our library
We own parts for many of the works we regularly perform – the Bach Passions, Christmas Oratorio and B Minor Mass (Bärenreiter edition), Messiah (also Bärenreiter), and Monteverdi’s Vespers (King’s Music) to name but a few. We do not make any charge for using these parts in our performances.
Keyboard hire
We normally arrange the hire and tuning of a suitable chamber organ and/or harpsichord from one of the leading providers.
St Matthew Passion © Blackburn Cathedral
Canzona in rehearsal at St Albans Cathedral © Canzona
Rehearsing Monteverdi Vespers at Douai Abbey © Canzona
Handel Ode for St Cecilia’s Day -
From a live concert with Somerset Chamber Choir conducted by Graham Caldbeck in Wells Cathedral 2007
de Lalande -
From a live concert with Somerset Chamber Choir conducted by Graham Caldbeck in Wells Cathedral 2007
Handel Ode for St Cecilia’s Day -
From a live concert with Somerset Chamber Choir conducted by Graham Caldbeck in Wells Cathedral 2007
Choral performances…...
Aylesbury Choral Society |
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Gabrieli and Hassler |
2012 |
Blackburn Cathedral Choirs |
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Monteverdi Vespers |
2010 |
Messiah |
2009 |
Messiah |
2008 |
St John Passion |
2008 |
Messiah |
2007 |
St Matthew Passion |
2007 |
Bradford Festival Choral Society |
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St John Passion |
2000 |
Bristol Bach Choir |
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B Minor Mass |
2013 |
Monteverdi Vespers |
2010 |
B Minor Mass |
2007 |
Burford Singers |
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B Minor Mass |
2011 |
Monteverdi Vespers |
2009 |
Charpentier Messe de Minuit; Purcell Come ye Sons of Art |
2004 |
St Matthew Passion |
2003 |
Carillon |
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Purcell Come ye Sons of Art; Handel Coronation Anthems; Blow |
2003 |
Cecilia Consort |
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Monteverdi Vespers |
2008 |
Choir of Temple Church |
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Purcell, Handel anthems & concerto grosso; JC Bach Te Deum |
1999 |
Chorleywood Choral Society |
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Messiah |
2004 |
Choros |
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St John Passion |
2007 |
B Minor Mass |
2001 |
Gaudeamus Chorus |
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Mozart inc opera extracts |
2005 |
Grove Park Festival Chorus |
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B Minor Mass |
2010 |
Bach, Vivaldi, Ivan Moseley |
2006 |
Bach Magnificat; Handel Dettingen Te Deum |
2002 |
Alexander's Feast |
2000 |
Harmonia Sacra |
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Pergolesi/Durante Magnificat |
2010 |
Harrogate Choral Society |
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St Matthew Passion |
2011 |
Holst Singers |
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B Minor Mass |
2002 |
St Matthew Passion |
2000 |
B Minor Mass |
1999 |
Leicester Philharmonic Choir |
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Messiah |
2005 |
Leith Hill Musical Festival |
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St John Passion |
2013 |
Messiah |
2012 |
St Matthew Passion |
2011 |
St John Passion |
2010 |
Messiah |
2009 |
M Haydn mass, J Haydn Te Deum, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate |
2009 |
St Matthew Passion |
2008 |
Messiah |
2007 |
CPE Bach & Purcell |
2007 |
Leith Hill Musical Festival (cont.) |
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St John Passion |
2006 |
St Matthew Passion |
2005 |
Messiah |
2004 |
St Matthew Passion |
2003 |
St John Passion |
2002 |
St Matthew Passion |
2001 |
Bach Magnificat; Brandenburg 3; Purcell Come ye Sons of Art |
2001 |
St John Passion |
2000 |
St Matthew Passion |
1999 |
St John Passion |
1998 |
St Matthew Passion |
1997 |
St John Passion |
1996 |
Messiah |
1995 |
St John Passion |
1994 |
Monteverdi Vespers |
1993 |
London Oriana Choir |
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Monteverdi Vespers |
2003 |
Magdalen Music Society |
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B Minor Mass |
2001 |
Monteverdi Vespers |
2000 |
Mayfield Festival Choir |
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St Cecilia Odes - |
2011 |
Handel Dixit, Bach Magnificat, Handel Concerto Grosso |
2009 |
Monteverdi Vespers |
2008 |
Nonsuch Singers |
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Israel in Egypt |
2012 |
Messiah |
2010 |
Christmas Oratorio |
2008 |
Bach Magnificat & Double Concerto; Handel Coronation Anthems |
2004 |
In Nativitatem French and Italian Christmas music |
2003 |
B Minor Mass |
2002 |
Vivaldi Magnificat, Gloria; Handel Dixit, Organ Concerto |
2001 |
Polyphony |
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St John Passion |
1999 |
Messiah |
1999 |
St John Passion |
1998 |
Messiah |
1998 |
Messiah |
1997 |
Christmas Oratorio parts 1- |
1997 |
Somerset Chamber Choir |
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B Minor Mass |
2011 |
Handel Dixit, Vivaldi Gloria + Bach, Charpentier |
2009 |
Handel Ode for St Cecilia, Bach, de Lalande, D Scarlatti |
2007 |
Purcell Hail bright Cecilia; Handel DettingenTe Deum |
2004 |
Monteverdi Vespers |
2001 |
Bach Magnificat, Vivaldi Dixit, Handel anthems |
2000 |
Three Choirs Festival |
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Monteverdi Vespers |
1997 |
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Contact us……
For further information please e-
Jill Caudle, General Manager -
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Polly Smith, Marketing Manager -
Theresa Caudle, Director -
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Canzona Ltd -