Next Singing Day
Saturday 17th May 2025
Handel Dettingen Te Deum

Join Us For Another Wonderful Day's Singing

An opportunity to sing with the Tatton Singers.

The ever popular Tatton Singers Saturday Singing Day is held annually in St. John's Church, Knutsford. Everyone who enjoys singing is welcome to join the Tatton Singers in discovering new repertoire. John Powell, the highly regarded Tatton Singers Musical Director, leads the Singing Day choir through vocal exercises and rehearsal to the afternoon performance, with soloists, for the general public. This sought-after day is complemented by a delicious cake sale. Please do CONTACT US, to receive advance notification of this day and other events.

Handel Dettingen Te Deum

We shall be singing the Dettingen Te Deum described by one recent critic as a 'true Handelian tub-thumper'. It was written in 1743 to mark a military victory (famously, the last occasion when a British monarch – George II – led his troops in battle). The music is for five-part choir (SSATB) and lasts about 30 minutes – and is in a style that will be familiar to anyone who knows the Coronation Anthems (or indeed Messiah!) It makes a thoroughly suitable piece for Singing Day. Many of the solo passages work particularly well sung by choir; and being Handel, the music is energetic, very readable (and in English!). Our Singing Days always culminate with a full (and public) performance of the music we have worked on – usually with one or two soloists. This year we shall be joined by two trumpeters, eminently suitable for the martial nature of the Dettingen Te Deum .

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To book your place, you can send a cheque with Singing Day Application Form, or CONTACT our secretary.
Or you can buy tickets online.

Ticket Price: £25, includes music hire (plus there is a cake sale and bring & buy stalls)

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Previous Singing Days

2007 Elgar The Music Makers
2008 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and 3 small items
2009 Handel Coronation anthems & Purcell Hear my Prayer
2010 Schubert Mass in Aflat
2011 Rutter A Sprig of Thyme, Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae & other choral delights
2012 Stanford Songs of the Fleet & Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
2013 Dvorak Mass in D
2014 Gilbert & Sullivan Trial by Jury
2015 Chilcott Little Jazz Mass; Aesop's Fables
2016 Handel Dixit Dominus
2017 Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony
2018 Cherubini Requiem in C minor
2019 Handel Jephtha
2022 Dyson Canterbury Pilgrims
2023 CPE Bach Magnificat in D JS Bach Lobet den Herrn
2024 Mendelssohn Psalm 42 - As the Hart Pants
Mendelssohn Four Sacred Partsongs

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. “Thank you a thousand times ... Yet another brilliant day. ”

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. “This was a really terrific event!... I had forgotten how exciting days of this kind are... the experience of learning how to perform the music in just one day very exciting.”

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. “So glad we were able to make the performance. Wow!! Anybody would think you had been rehearsing for weeks - not one day! Well done!”

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. “I came home with such a smile on my face and it lasted well into the next morning! It was my first time singing with you, and I felt very welcome and comfortable.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. “What a fabulous day we all had yesterday. Thank you to everyone who organised this, great singing, great cakes, absolute joy.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. “It was SUCH a wonderful singing day. Wow. Never experienced anything like it.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. “...we enjoyed the event... and... wanted to say thanks. It is a huge work... Everyone was very friendly.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. “It was a remarkable achievement ...... You produced an amazing result.”

Next Singing Day Saturday 17th May 2025 Handel Dettingen Te Deum

Join Us For Another Wonderful Day's Singing

Handel Dettingen Te Deum

To book your place, you can send a cheque with Singing Day Application Form, or CONTACT our secretary. Or you can buy tickets online. Ticket Price: £25, includes music hire (plus there is a cake sale and bring & buy stalls)

Previous Singing Days

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor.
“Thank you a thousand times ... Yet another brilliant day. ”

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor.
“This was a really terrific event!... I had forgotten how exciting days of this kind are... the experience of learning how to perform the music in just one day very exciting.”

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor.
“So glad we were able to make the performance. Wow!! Anybody would think you had been rehearsing for weeks - not one day! Well done!”

Singing Day - Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor.
“I came home with such a smile on my face and it lasted well into the next morning! It was my first time singing with you, and I felt very welcome and comfortable.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.
“What a fabulous day we all had yesterday. Thank you to everyone who organised this, great singing, great cakes, absolute joy.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.
“It was SUCH a wonderful singing day. Wow. Never experienced anything like it.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.
“...we enjoyed the event... and... wanted to say thanks. It is a huge work... Everyone was very friendly.”

Singing Day - Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.
“It was a remarkable achievement ...... You produced an amazing result.”

Next Singing Day
Saturday 17th May 2025
Handel Dettingen Te Deum

To book your place, you can send a cheque with Singing Day Application Form, or CONTACT our secretary.
Or you can buy tickets online.

Ticket Price: £25, includes music hire (plus there is a cake sale and bring & buy stalls)