Previous Concerts

 

Music for a Summer Evening

Saturday 5th July
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Leicestershire

Hosanna to the Son of David
Thomas Weelkes
O nata lux
Thomas Tallis
Laudate nomen Domini
Christopher Tye
Lullaby
William Byrd
Fine knacks for ladies
John Dowland
The Silver Swan
Orlando Gibbons
Quam pulchra es
(Trio: Sop; Beth Carpenter, Alto1; Claire Deare, Alto 2; Claire Barrett)
John Dunstable
Mamble (Solo Countertenor: Tom Williams)
Michael Head
The Ships of Arcady
Oh, for a closer walk with God!
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
The Old Superb
Quick, we have but a second!
Linden Lea
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Vagabond (Solo Baritone: Simon Cleaver)

Sweet and low

Joseph Barnby
Skye Boat Song
arr. Margaret Williams
Walk in Jerusalem
arr. Ian Humphries
Little David
arr. Malcolm Sargent
Elijah Rock
Jester Hairston
Maria (Solo Countertenor: Tom Williams)
Leonard Bernstein
Java Jive
arr. The Tones of Blue

 


Sacred and Profane

Saturday 21st June
St Mary's Parish Church, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

Hosanna to the Son of David
Thomas Weelkes
O nata lux
Thomas Tallis
Laudibus in sanctis
William Byrd
Voluntary in D minor (Organ: David Cowen)
John Stanley
Hear my prayer
Henry Purcell
Mamble (Solo Baritone: Michael Rennett)
Michael Head
Justorum Animae
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Rollicum Rorum (Solo Bass: Robert Nottingham)
Gerald Finzi
Hymn to St Cecilia
Benjamin Britten
Fine Knacks for Ladies
John Dowland
The Silver Swan
Orlando Gibbons
Now is the month of maying
Thomas Morley
Quam Pulchra Es
(Trio: Sop; Beth Carpenter, Alto1; Claire Deare, Alto 2; Claire Barrett)
John Dunstable
Lay a Garland
Robert Pearsall
Saraband for the morning of Easter (Organ: David Cowen)
Herbert Howells
Three Shakespeare Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Holy Boy (Solo Tenor: Sam Hardy)
John Ireland
Early one morning
Sir Michael Tippett
Lillibulero
Sir Michael Tippett

 


Pre-dinner entertainment

Saturday 7th June
Osbaston Hall, Osbaston, Nuneaton, Leicestershire

Fine knacks for ladies
John Dowland
The Silver Swan
Orlando Gibbons
Now is the month of Maying
Thomas Morley
A Serenade (Solo Tenor: Bob Brown)
Cyril Scott
Three Shakespeare Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Come Home Father (Solo Tenor: Bob Brown)
Henry Clay Work
Sweet and Low
Joseph Barnby
My Old Dutch (Solo Tenor: Bob Brown)
Charles Ingle
Walk in Jerusalem
arr. Ian Humphris
Little David play on your harp
arr. Malcolm Sargent
Elijah Rock
arr. Jester Hairston

 


Te Deum Laudamus

Saturday 15th March
St Catherine's Church, Burbage, Leicestershire

Mendelssohn Te Deum
Bach Komm Jesu Komm
Mendelssohn Frohlocket
Bach Suite No. 1 in G

 


YouthFindAVoice08

Sunday 2nd March
De Montfort Hall, Leicester

Leicestershire Chorale, Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra & YouthFindAVoice

Colas Breugnon Overture
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Zadok the Priest
George Frideric Handel
Slavonic Dance No.7 Op.72
Antonín Dvořák
Te Deum Laudamus
Antonín Dvořák
 
Benedicite
Andrew Carter

 


Contemporary Carols and Rare Readings

Saturday 8th December
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham, Leicestershire

A Modern Bidding (read by Vivian Anthony)
Out of your sleep
Richard Rodney Bennett
The Power and the Glory (read by Robert Nottingham)
Siegfried Sassoon
The Sabbath (read by Jeremy Rider)
W.H. Auden
Adam lay ybouden
Howard Skempton
from Abraham's Children, Jews. Christians and Muslims in Conversation (read by Sue Westlake)
ed. Norman Soloman, Richard Harries and Tim Winter
I wonder as I wander
Carl Rütti
Peace Poem (read by Alysoun Morgan)
Oliver Bernard
Illuminare Jerusalem
Judith Weir
from Centuries of Meditation (read by Neil Waddell)
Thomas Traherne
There is no rose of such virtue
John Joubert
from Blessed Among Women, the Book of Mary (read by Susannah Johnston)
Peter de Rosa
Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Arvo Pärt
from God's Fool (read by Suzanne Challacombe)
Julien Green
A Christmas Round
John Tavener
Dog in the Manger (read by David Clark)
John V Taylor
The Lamb (read by Wanda Davies)
William Blake
O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen
The Ballad of the Bread Man
Charles Causley
One Gift the Magi Bore
Sally Ann Morris
Readings in St. John's Gospel (read by Peter Edwards)
Archbishop William Temple
Lux Aurumque
Eric Witacre
Organ Voluntary: Postlude from Pour la nuit de Noel
Daniel Roth

 


Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610: Claudio Monteverdi

Saturday 17th November
St James the Greater, Leicester
Leicestershire Chorale with The Saraband Consort

 

 

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