Music

This year's Eton Boys' Concert opens with the College Chapel Choir giving the first performance of a composition written by Viscount Linley to mark The King's Coronation.

Tonight we begin our programme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the enchanted woodlands of Mendelssohn's incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This playful overture is partnered with a contemporaneous selection of songs written by a composer who was deeply inspired by Mendelssohn: Prince Albert. He composed them for performance at Windsor Castle and they have been brilliantly orchestrated for this premiere performance by Paul Mealor and sung by leading tenor Andrew Staples.

The Windsor and Eton Choral Society (WECS) gave its first public performance in Windsor in 1837 making it one of the six oldest Choral Societies in the country.  

Leading international concert organist and Windsor resident Thomas Trotter re-launches the recently restored three-manual pipe organ of Windsor Parish Church of St John the Baptist in a scintillating blaze of glory, with a concert highlighting the instrument's varied orchestral tonal palette as well as its brute power.

Conducted by John Rutter himself, this performance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates two of his pieces with works by another great British composer Vaughan Williams.