Yeovil Chamber Choir: Previous Concerts

Previous Concerts

Friday 1 December 2023

St Andrew's Church, Preston Grove, Yeovil

Tidings of Joy: music celebrating winter

John Gardner	Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Owain Park	Here is the little door
Tomas Luis de Victoria	O magnum mysterium
Sergei Rachmaninov	Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Thomas Weelkes	Gloria in excelsis Deo
Piotyr Tchaikovsky	Hymn to the Virgin (Dostoino yest)
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Peter Warlock	Bethlehem Down
John Tavener	The Lamb
John Joubert	There is no rose
Robert Walker	In the bleak mid-winter
Morten Lauridsen	O magnum mysterium
Hans Leo Hassler	Dixit Maria

Saturday 30 September 2023

St Andrew's Church, Preston Grove, Yeovil

Come & Sing Vivaldi & Weelkes

Antonio Vivaldi	Gloria
Thomas Weelkes	Gloria in excelsis Deo

Sunday 2 July 2023

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Springing into summer. A choral celebration of our 30th anniversary

Ralph Vaughan Williams	The dark-eyed sailor \| Just as the tide was flowing #1 & #3 from Five English Folk-songs
William Byrd	Retire my soul
Benjamin Britten	The evening primrose #4 from Five Flower Songs
Ēriks E�envalds	The Heavens' Flock \| The Earthly Rose
Guy Turner (arr)	O Waly, Waly
David Russell	Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Sergei Rachmaninov	Bogoroditse Dyevo
Graham Coatman (arr)	She moved through the fair
Edvard Grieg	V�ren [Spring]
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Sicut cervus
John Munday	The Blackbird
Josef Rheinberger	Abendlied

Wednesday 14 December 2022

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

A Service of Lessons & Carols

Trad arr Jacques	The Holly and the Ivy
Trad arr Willcocks	I saw three ships come sailing in
Richard Rodney Bennett	Out of your sleep
Peter Philips	O beatum et sacrosanctum diem
Edmind Rubbra	Dormi Jesu
Trad arr Coatman	While shepherds watched \| Sweet chiming bells
Mediaeval arr Coatman	Gaudete
Jacob Handl	Resonet in laudibus

Wednesday 23 November 2022

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Salutations, Stars, Serenity & Peace

Heinrich Sch�tz	Lobt Gott mit schall \| Unser keiner Lebet ihm selber \| Die mit tr�nen s�en
Dmitri Bortniansky	Dostoino yest \| Unser Herr, Jesus Christ
Henry Purcell	Remember not, Lord, our offences
Graham Coatman	Christus est stella matutina
Mikhail Lysenko	Prayer for Ukraine
Arvo P�rt	Da pacem Domine
William Byrd	Sing joyfully
Ēriks E�envalds	Salutation

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Saturday 17 September 2022

Stoke sub Hamdon Memorial Hall

Come & Sing Joyfully

William Byrd	Sing joyfully
Claudio Monteverdi	Cantate Domino
Heinrich Sch�tz	Unser Herr, Jesus Christ
Ēriks E�envalds	Salutation
Charles Villiers Stanford	Magnificat

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Wednesday 13 July 2022

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

With a Hey! Nonny-no!

Anon	Mirie it is (13^th cent English)
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Elizabethan Part Songs. Sweet day \| The Willow Song \| O mistress mine
Thomas Morley	It was a lover and his lass
Francis Poulenc	Chansons Fran�aises. Margoton va t�a l�iau \| La belle se sied au pied de la tour \| Pilons l�orge \| Ah ! Mon beau laboureur
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Linden Lea
Matthew Harris	Shakespeare Songs. Tell me where is fancy bred \| Under the greenwood tree \| Come away, come away, death
Charles Wood	Full fathom five thy father lies
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr)	Five English Folk Songs. The Dark-eyed Sailor \| The Lover�s Ghost \| Just as the tide was flowing
Amy Beach	Three Shakespeare Choruses. Come unto these yellow sands \| Over hill, over dale \| Through the house give glimmering light

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Wednesday 30 March 2022

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Songs for These Distracted Times

In support of Ukraine | Retiring collection �420

Anon (formerly attrib Redford)	Rejoice in the Lord alway
Thomas Tallis	If ye love me
William Byrd	Ave verum corpus \| Teach me O Lord \| Ego sum panis vivus
Jacques Arcadelt	Il bianco e dolce cigno
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Josquin desPrez	El Grillo \| Ave Maria
Thomas Tompkins	When David heard \| To the shady woods
Henry Purcell	If music be the food of love
Claudio Monteverdi	Ecco mormorar l�onde
Pierre Certon	La la la, je n�ose le dire
Pierre Passereau	Il est bel est bon
Adrian Batten	O sing joyfully
The songs were interspersed with keyboard interludes by Thomas Tomkins, Fran�ois Couperin, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Claude Debussy

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Wednesday 15 December 2021

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

A Service of Lessons and Carols

Hymns - Readings - Carols

Graham Coatman (arr)	How far is it to Bethlehem?
William Walton	All this time
Charles Wood	Hail, blessed Virgin Mary
W Ballett	The Lute Book Lullaby
John Rutter (arr)	Quem pastores laudavere
David Willcocks (arr)	The Infant King
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O magnum mysterium

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March 2020

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

The Mighty Handful: Creating a Russian tradition

The concert that never was!!

The choral music of �The Mighty Handful�, the five self-taught composers who worked together in the 19th century to create a distinct school of Russian classical music; including professional chemist Alexander Borodin�s grand �Requiem� based on the children�s piano piece �Chopsticks�, Modest Mussorgsky�s last operatic chorus, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov�s ethereal Orthodox music, beautiful part-songs composed by military fortifications expert C�sar Cui, and the choral compositions of virtuoso pianist Mily Balakirev.

Modest Mussorgsky	An angel cried out
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Cherubic hymn 1
Modest Mussorgsky	Ru-du-du (from Sorochintsy Fair)
C�sar Cui	Everywhere snow \| Beauty concealed \| Nocturne - Sleeps the Earth \| Zadremali Volni
Alexander Borodin	Serenade \| Villagers Chorus (from Prince Igor) \| Requiem
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Folksongs. Posmotri \| Zapletisya
Mily Balakirev	Troparion. From the mouth \| The angel cried
Modest Mussorgsky	Ru-du-du reprise (from Sorochintsy Fair)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	The golden cloud slept Op 13 \| Cherubic hymn 4
Modest Mussorgsky	The destruction of Sennacherib \| Hopak (from Sorochintsy Fair)

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Wednesday 11 December 2019

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Light in the darkness: music for Winter & Christmas

Gustav Holst	In the bleak midwinter
Georg Frederic Handel	From Messiah
	For behold darkness shall cover the Earth
	The people that walked in darkness
	For unto us a Child is born
	Glory to God
Johann Sebastian Bach	From Christmas Oratorio
	And there were shepherds (Evangelist: Mark Rudd \| Angel: Catherine Fraser)
	Break forth O beauteous heavenly light
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs	The Turning Year \| III Fell Winter Soloist: Mark Rudd
Henry Purcell	From King Arthur Act III
	What power art thou?
	See, we assemble
	Tis I that have warm'd ye
	Tis love that has warm'd us
David Willcocks (arr)	Sussex Carol \| Quelle est cette odeur agr�able
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Motet: O magnum mysterium
	Missa : O magnum mysterium
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	In dulci jubilo
Arthur Warrell (arr)	We wish you a merry Christmas

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Sunday 1 December 2019

St John's Church, Yeovil

Light Up a Life

St Margaret's Hospice, Yeovil

Gustav Holst	In the bleak midwinter
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	In dulci jubilo
Johann Sebastian Bach	Break forth O beauteous heavenly light
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Motet: O magnum mysterium
David Willcocks (arr)	Quelle est cette odeur agr�able \| Sussex Carol

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Wednesday 26 June 2019

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

25th Anniversary Concert

John Blow	Praise the Lord, ye servants
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs	The Turning Year III Fell Winter \| IV Spring Song
Edvard Grieg	Ave maris stella
George Frideric Handel	The King shall rejoice Coronation Anthems #2
Henry VIII	Pastyme with good company
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry	Blest pair of sirens
Alessandro Scarlatti	Exultate Deo
John Tavener	Love bade me welcome
Percy Whitlock	Be still my soul

The music chosen is by composers with whom members of the choir share a birthday

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Wednesday 17 April 2019

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Meditation for Holy Week

Hymns - Readings - Music - Poetry

Michael Haydn	Unus ex discipulis meis (Responsoria in Coena Domini #6)
Edward Bairstow	The Lamentation
Michael Haydn	Judas mercator pessimus (Responsoria in Coena Domini #5)
John IV, King of Portugal	Crux fidelis
William Byrd	Miserere mei Deus

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Wednesday 27 March 2019

St Michael's Church, Yeovil

Tenebrae: music for Passiontide

Organ: Peter Lea-Cox

John Amner	Lift up your heads O ye gates
Edward Bairstow	The Lamentation
William Byrd	Miserere mei Deus
Michael Haydn	Responsoria in Coena Domini [Responsories for Maundy Thursday] In monte Oliveti \| Tristis est anima mea \| Ecce vidimus eum \| Amicus meus \| Judas mercator pessimus \| Unus ex discipulis meis \| Eram quasi agnus innocens \| Una hora Seniores populi
Felix Mendelssohn	Hear my prayer
Henry Purcell	O God, thou art my God
William Turner	Lord, thou hast been our refuge

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Wednesday 5 December 2018
Sunday 9 December 2018

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil
Minster Church of St Mary, Axminster

No�! No�! Baroque music for Advent
and Christmas

Hieronymus Praetorius	In dulci jubilo �8
Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Messe de minuit sur des airs de No�l
Pierre Bonhomme	Quem vidistis pastores �8
Johann Sebastian Bach	Cantata BWV 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

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Sunday 2 December 2018

St John's Church, Yeovil

Light Up a Life

St Margaret's Hospice, Yeovil

Ralph Vaughan Williams	The Blessed Son of God
	The Holly and the Ivy
John Rutter	A Flower Remembered
	A great and mighty wonder
	Lute Book Lullaby (Sweet was the song the Virgin sang)
J S Bach (harmony)	O little one sweet
	Light of the minds that know him Tune: Yetminster. Written by Simon Eadon, musician and recording engineer, who lives in Yetminster

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Sunday 28 October 2018

Stoke sub Hamdon Arts Centre

A Classical Concert

in aid of Hamdon Community Arts Project

Samuel Sebastian Wesley	Thou wilt keep Him in perfect peace
Gabriel Faur�	Requiem

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Wednesday 27 June 2018

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Women of note: a celebration of female composers

Organ: Peter Lea-Cox

Amy Beach	Magnificat & Nunc dimittis
Imogen Holst	Mass in A minor
Judith Bingham	The darkness is no darkness
Elizabeth Poston	Jesus Christ the apple tree
Janet Wheeler	Alleluia, I heard a voice
Ethel Smyth	March of the Women

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Wednesday 21 March 2018

St Michael's Church, Yeovil

One hundred years on: some choral anniversaries

Organ: Peter Lea-Cox

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry	My soul there is a country \| Never weather beaten sail Songs of Farewell #1 & #3
Edward Elgar	They are at rest
Claude Debussy	Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orl�ans Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder \| Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin \| Yver vous n'estes qu'un villain
Gabriel Faur�	Requiem in D minor, Op 48

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Wednesday 22 November 2017
Wednesday 6 December 2017

Cheap Street Church, Sherborne
Minster Church of St Mary, Axminster

Light out of Darkness: English & German music from the Reformation

Joint concert with Axminster Chamber Choir

Johann Walter	Ein feste Burg
Martin Luther	Non moriar sed vivam
Johann Walter	Wir glauben all an einen Gott
Michael Praetorius	Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Heinrich Schutz	Kyrie, Gott, Vater SWV 420
Hieronymous Praetorius	Magnificat quinti toni (with interpolated Christmas carols)

Thomas Tallis	If ye love me
Christopher Tye	O God be merciful
William Mundy	O Lord the maker of all thing
William Byrd	Teach me, O Lord
Orlando Gibbons	See, see the Word is incarnate
Edmund Hooper	Behold, it is Christ
Orlando Gibbons	O clap your hands together

Sunday 3 December 2017

St John's Church, Yeovil

Light Up a Life

St Margaret's Hospice, Yeovil

William Mundy	O Lord the maker
Boris Ord	Adam lay y'bounden
Edgar Pettman (arr)	I saw a maiden
Reginald Jacques (arr)	Away in a manger
David Willcocks (arr)	Infant Holy

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Wednesday 28 June 2017

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

On Wings of Song: music to celebrate our feathered friends

Anon	Dindirindin
trad arr Cashmore	The lark in the clear air
arr O'Shea	She's like the swallow
Jacob Arcadelt	Il bianco e dolce cigno
John Bartlet	Of all the birds
Johannes Brahms	Der Falke
Cooke	Hark, hark the lark
Gustav Mahler	Lob des hohen Verstandes Soloist: David Adams
Felix Mendelssohn	Die Nachtigall
Thomas Morley	Though Philomela lost her love
John Mundy	The blackbird
Henry Purcell	When as the Mavis sweetly sings
Kellow J Pye	Ye little birds
Charles Villiers Stanford	The bluebird
Franz Schubert	Der Wachtelslag \| An die Nachtigall Soloist: Steve Walker
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The turtle dove
Thomas Vautor	Sweet Suffolk owl

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Wednesday 12 April 2017

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Holy Week Meditation

Hymns - Readings - Music - Poetry

Anton Bruckner	Christus factus est
Pablo Casals	O vos omnes
Kenneth Leighton	Solus ad victimam
Antonio Lotti	Crucifixus
Frederick Ouseley	O Saviour of the world

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Wednesday 22 March 2017

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Salvator mundi: sacred music for Lent & Passiontide

Organ: Peter Lea-Cox

J S Bach	O Jesu Christ, meins lebens Licht
Anton Bruckner	Christus factus est
Pablo Casals	O vos omnes
Maurice Greene	Lord, let me know mine end Soloists: Catherine Fraser, Steve Walker (Sopranos)
Kenneth Leighton	Solus ad victimam
Antonio Lotti	Crucifixus
Felix Mendelssohn	Richte mich Gott
Frederick Ouseley	O Saviour of the world
Francis Poulenc	Timor et tremor
William Walton	A Litany: Drop, drop slow tears

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Sunday 11 December 2016
Wednesday 14 December 2016

Minster Church of St Mary, Axminster
Holy Trinity Church, Yeovil

The Italian Connection: sacred music from the Italian Renaissance

Joint concert with Axminster Chamber Choir

Minster Church of St Mary, Axminster

Jean Mouton	Noe, Noe psallite
Jacques Arcadelt	Missa Noe noe
Luca Marenzio	Hodie Christus natus est
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	O magnum mysterium
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Hodie Christus natus est \| Missa Hodie Christus natus est
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O magnum mysterium
Peter Philips	O beatum et sacrosanctum diem

Sunday 27 November 2016

St John's Church, Yeovil

Light Up a Life

St Margaret's Hospice, Yeovil

Thomas Tallis	If ye love me
	The truth from above
	The Infant King [sing lullaby]
	Quelle est cette odeur agreable?

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Wednesday 22 June 2016

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Music to hear: the wit and wisdom of Shakespeare

Innominata Consort
Nicola Davidson, Robin Dibben, Annita Lemon-van de Kooij, Malcolm McDonald (recorders), John Mingay (keyboard)

Organ: Peter Parshall

Matthew Harris	Shakespeare Songs, Book 2 Take, O, take those lips away \| Tell me where is fancy bred \| Under the greenwood tree \| Come away, come away, death
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Lay a garland
George Shearing	Music to hear: a choral suite Music to hear \| Shall I compare thee to a summer�s day? \| Is it for fear to wet a widow�s eye? \| Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more \| Blow, blow thou winter wind
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Shakespeare Songs Full fathom five \| The cloud capp�d towers \| Over hill, over dale

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Saturday 19 March 2016

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Pri�res: sacred French choral music

Maurice Durufl�	Quatre motets sur des th�mes gr�goriens Op 10 Ubi caritas \| Tantum ergo \| Tu es Petrus \| Tota pulchra es Maria
Maurice Durufl�	Notre P�re
Francis Poulenc	Quatre motets pour un temps de p�nitence Timor et tremor \| Vinea mea electa \| Tenebrae factae sunt \| Tristis et anima mea
Francis Poulenc	Salve Regina
Pierre Villette	Trois motets O quam amabilis es \| Jesu dulcis memoria \| Panis angelicus
Pierre Villette	Salve Regina

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Wednesday 2 December 2015
Sunday 6 December 2015

Church of St Peter & St Paul, South Petherton
Minster Church of St Mary, Axminster

Resonet in Laudibus: German sacred music for Advent

Joint Concert with Axminster Chamber Choir

Church of St Peter & St Paul, South Petherton

Hans Leo Hassler	Missa Octo vocum
Hieronymus Praetorius	In dulci jubilo
Jacob Handl	Resonet in laudibus
Hans Leo Hassler	Dixit Maria
Hieronymus Praetorius	Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
Josef Rheinberger	Cantus Mass in Eb
Johannes Brahms	Ach, arme Welt
Max Reger	Unser lieben Frauen Traum
Anton Bruckner	Christus factus est \| Os justi meditabitur

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Sunday 29 November 2015

St John's Church, Yeovil

Light Up a Life

St Margaret's Hospice, Yeovil

Catalan traditional	The Son of the Virgin
Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine
	O little one sweet

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Wednesday 24 June 2015

St Andrew's Church , Yeovil

A Midsummer Night's Music

Thomas Vautor	Mother I will have a husband
Thomas Weelkes	Hark all ye lovely saints above
John Bennet	Weep, O mine eyes
Thomas Greaves	Come away sweet love
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Lay a garland
Frank Bridge	Five part-songs Autumn \| Music, when soft voices die \| Hilli-Ho! Hilli-Ho! \| O weary hearts \| The bee
Anton�n Dvoř�k	Songs of nature Why do sweet songs \| Down in the forest \| Golden cornfields \| On the green hillside \| Come, let us sing
Gustav Holst	I love my love
Michael Howarth (arr)	Dafydd y Garreg Wen [David of the white rock] (trad Welsh air)
Jeremy Rawson (arr)	Ye banks and braes (trad Scottish air)
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Linden Lea (arr Somervell)
Gustav Host	Swansea Town

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Wednesday 18 March 2015

St Andrew's Church , Yeovil

Salvator mundi: choral music for Passiontide

Soprano: Chlo� Stratta
J S Bach: Blute nur du liebes Herz from St Matthew Passion
Henry Purcell: Dido�s Lament from Dido and Aeneas

Tenor saxophone: Catherine Fraser
Robert Schumann: Romance No 1 from 3 Romances op 94

Organist | Baritone: Peter Parshall

Thomas Tallis	Salvator mundi
Pablo Casals	O vos omnes
Judith Bingham	The darkness is no darkness
Samuel Wesley	Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Palestrina	Stabat mater
Jonathan Dove	Into Thy hands
Herbert Howells	Requiem

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Tuesday 16 December 2014

Church of the Holy Ghost, Yeovil

Festival of Carols

	Of the father's heart begotten
Harold Darke	In the bleak midwinter
	God rest ye merry gentlemen
	O come all ye faithful
	Away in a manger
Felix Mendelssohn	Hark the herald angels sing

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Sunday 14 December 2014

Barrington Court, near Ilminster

Carols @ Barrington

Christmas Carols with audience participation

Michael Praetorius (harm)	A great and mighty wonder
Martin Shaw(arr)	Lully, lulla [Coventry Carol]
Reginald Jacques (arr)	Angels from the realms of glory \| Away in a manger \| Rejoice and be merry (Dorset gallery carol)
W Ballet	Sweet was the song [Lute-book Lullaby]
H J Gauntlett	Once in royal David�s city
Johann Sebastian Bach (harm)	O little one sweet
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr)	O little town of Bethlehem \| Wassail, wassail all over the town [Gloucestershire Wassail]
David Willcocks (arr)	Infant holy, infant lowly
	While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Old Foster)
Arthur Warrell (arr)	We wish you a merry Christmas

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Saturday 29 November 2014
Sunday 30 November 2014

Crewkerne Methodist Church
St John's Church, West Bay

A Banquet of Voices: heavenly music for Advent

Joint concert with Axminster Chamber Choir

Edward Naylor	Vox dicentis
William Byrd	Rorate caeli
Benjamin Britten	Hymn to the Virgin
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Alma redemptoris Mater
Bob Chilcott	Even such is time
Hieronymus Praetorius	Magnificat Quinti Toni
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Ave Maria �8
Michael Praetorius	Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
John Tavener	The Lamb
Thomas Tallis	Videte miraculum
Thomas Weelkes	Hosanna to the Son of David
Francisco Guerrero	Ave Maria �8
Samuel Scheidt	Puer natus in Bethlehem

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Wednesday 25 June 2014

St Andrew's Church , Yeovil

Over Hill, Over Dale: Shakespeare Songs & Sonnets

An evening of music set to texts written by the great bard

Piano: Peter Parshall

Thomas Weelkes	Strike it up tabor
John Rutter	It was a lover and his lass \| Blow blow thou winter wind
John Ireland	Full fathom five
E J Moeran	Under the greenwood tree \| Sigh no more ladies
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Shakespeare Songs Full fathom five \| The cloud capp'd towers \| Over hill, over dale
Charles Wood	Full fathom five
Thomas Morley	It was a lover and his lass
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The willow song \| O mistress mine, from Elizabethan Songs
George Shearing	Songs and sonnets from Shakespeare

Wednesday 26 March 2014

St Andrew's Church , Yeovil

In Celebration of Peace & Remembrance of War

Organ: Peter Parshall
Trumpet: Dave Edwards

Henry Purcell	I was glad
William Blitheman	In pace
Charles Villiers Stanford	A song of battle
Hubert Parry	Crossing the bar
Johannes Brahms	Geistliches lied
Hubert Parry	There is an old belief (from Songs of Farewell)
Malcolm Archer	For the fallen
Charles Wesley	Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
John Ireland	Greater love
Geoffrey Burgon	Nunc dimittis
John Tavener	Song for Athene
Charles Villiers Stanford	A song of peace
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Lord, Thou hast been our refuge

Saturday 7 December 2013

Barrington Court, near Ilminster

The Sounds of Christmas: carols with audience participation

Accompanist: Jean Rudd

Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
H J Gauntlett	Once in royal David�s city
David Willcocks (arr)	Infant holy \| O come all ye faithful
Reginald Jacques (arr)	Away in a manger \| The Linden Tree \| Good King Wenceslas
Charles Wood (harm)	Ding dong merrily on high \| King Jesus hath a garden Past 3 o�clock
Arthur Sullivan (adapt)	It came upon the midnight clear
Howard Goodall	The Lord is my shepherd
	Silent night
	Somerset wassail
Ralph Vaughan Willams (arr)	O little town of Bethlehem
	I saw a maiden
Felix Mendelssohn	Hark the herald angels sing
Ludovico da Viadana	Exultate justi
	While shepherds watched their flocks
R R Terry	Myn liking
David Willcocks (arr)	The first Nowell
Boris Ord	Adam lay y bounden
	See amid the winter�s snow
John Rutter (arr)	Sans Day carol
Arthur Warrell (arr)	We wish you a merry Christmas

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Saturday 30 November 2013

St Andrew's Church Hall, Yetminster

20th Anniversary Supper Concert

Innominata Consort
Nicola Davidson, Robin Dibben, Malcolm McDonald, (recorders) Rachel Saxty (keyboard)

Accompanist: Jean Rudd

Anton Bruckner	Locus iste
Henry Purcell	Come ye sons of art Soloist: Corinne Hawkins
Goerge Dyson	To music
Edward Elgar	O happy eyes
Howard Goodall	The Lord is my shepherd Soloist: Esther Robotham
Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
Giuseppe Pitoni	Cantate Domino
Ludovico da Viadana	Exsultate justi
West country folk songs	O waly, waly \| Somerset wassail

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Saturday 28 September 2013	St Osmund's Church, Melbury Osmond, Dorset
Recording Session Music for the film � Far From the Madding Crowd
Hymns Jerusalem the golden Now the day is over Glory to Thee my God this night (Tallis� Canon) O come, O come Emmanuel Men only (!!) Thomas Tallis: If ye love me
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Sunday 22 September 2013	Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire
Stourhead Festival of the Voice 2013
Selection of madrigals and part-songs	Image from Wikipedia
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Saturday 29 June 2013	Church of St Peter & St Paul South Petherton
*South Petherton Folk Festival* Madrigals and British folk songs \| Selection from West Side Story
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Wednesday 26 June 2013

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Music for a Summer Evening

Accompanist | Jean Rudd

Innominata Consort
Nicola Davidson, Robin Dibben, Malcolm McDonald, Rachel Saxty

Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
John Ritchie (arr)	Early one morning
Henry Coleman (arr)	All through the night Soloist: Robert Hall (tenor)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	Magnificat
Walford Davies	God be in my head
Stroman (arr)	Steal away Soloist: Mark Rudd (tenor)
Gordon Jacobs (arr)	Brother James' Air (Psalm 23)
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis
Leonard Bernstein	One hand, one heart \| Tonight (from West Side Story)

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Sunday 2 June 2013
Sunday 21 April 2013

Barrington Court, near Ilminster

Music for a Sunday Afternoon

Accompanist: Jean Rudd

Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
	Swing low
Stroman (arr)	Steal away
Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Orlando Di Lassus	Musica est Dei donum optimi
Henry Coleman (arr)	All through the night
Thomas F Dunhill (arr)	Loch Lomond
John Ritchie (arr)	Early one morning \| I will give my love an apple \| Dashing away
Leonard Bernstein	One hand one heart \| Tonight (from West Side Story)

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Wednesday 20 March 2013

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Music from Britain and America

Accompanist: Becky Dudley-Smith

Leonard Bernstein	West Side Story (Choral selection)
Andrew Carter	Deep peace Soloists: Steve Walker (soprano), Corinne Hawkins (alto)
Bob Chilcott	Irish blessing (May the road rise to meet you)
Henry Coleman (arr)	All through the night - Old Welsh Air Soloist: Robert Hall (tenor)
Aaron Copland	Ching-a-ring-chaw \| Long time ago \| Simple gifts
Thomas F Dunhill (arr)	Loch Lomond - Scottish Air
Elizabeth Poston	Jesus Christ the apple tree
John Ritchie (arr)	Dashing away with the smoothing iron \| I will give my love an apple
John Rutter	The Lord bless you and keep you
Eric Whitacre	Seal lullaby
Healey Willan	Rise up, my love, my fair one

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Sunday 9 December 2012

Barrington Court, near Ilminster

Carols @ Barrington

Congregation	Choir
Away in a manger	O little one sweet, O little one mild
As with gladness	A great and mighty wonder
Ding, dong merrily on high	Away in a manger
Hark the herald angels sing	Infant holy, infant lowly
It came upon the midnight clear	Lute-Book lullaby
O come, all ye faithful	The Linden Tree Carol
O little town of Bethlehem	Gloucestershire wassail
Once in Royal David�s city	King Jesus hath a garden
The first nowell	Past 3 o�clock
While shepherds watched

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Saturday 24 November 2012

St Andrew's Church, Yetminster

O Sing Joyfully

The Aliquando Ensemble
Accompanist | Jean Rudd

Soloist: Steve Walker

Adrian Batten	O sing joyfully
William Byrd	Justorum animae \| O sing joyfully
Charles Dyson	To music
Orlando Di Lassus	Justorum animae \| Musica est donum Dei optime
Claudio Monteverdi	Cantate Domino
Henry Purcell	Welcome to all the pleasures Soloists: Ursula Davis, Ruth Lale (soprano), Elizabeth Gowers, Corinne Hawkins, Valerie Stewart (alto), David Adams, David Price, Mark Rudd (tenor), Ray Drewett (bass)
Charles Villiers Stanford	Justorum animae
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O quam gloriosum (Mass) \| O quam gloriosum (motet)
Lodovico Viadana	Exsultate justi

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Saturday 23 June 2012

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Songs of Our Fairest Isle
A programme of music celebrating our country's heritage

Accordionist: Louise Dukes


Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
Thomas Arne	Under the greenwood tree
John Bennet	All creatures now
John Ireland	The hills \| In praise of Neptune
Vaughan Williams	Over hill, over dale
Charles Wood	Full fathom five
Traditional	Afton Water \| All through the night \| The ash grove \| Early one morning
Vanessa Young	Bring the bounty in \| Married to the sea \| Solitary the ocean
Leon Bailey (arr)	A shanty sequence

Vanessa Young is a Dorset poet and songwriter, whose pieces reflect the universal themes of love and nature.

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Saturday 17 March 2012

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Music of Majesty
Coronation music from James II to Elizabeth II

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Image from Wikipedia

George Frideric Handel	Zadok the Priest (Coronation anthem 1)
George Frideric Handel	Water music suite
Henry Purcell	I was glad when they said unto me
John Blow	Let thy hand be strengthened \| Behold O God our defender
Anon	Rejoice in the Lord alway
George Frideric Handel	Let thy hand be strengthened (Coronation anthem 3)
George Frideric Handel	Queen of Sheba
George Frideric Handel	The King shall rejoice (Coronation anthem 2)
George Frideric Handel	Music for the Royal Fireworks
Ralph Vaughan Williams	O taste and see Soloist: Steve Walker
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Sanctus (from Mass in G minor)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley	Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
George Frideric Handel	My heart is inditing (Coronation anthem 4)

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Wednesday 14 December 2011

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Music for Advent & Christmas

Francisco Guerrero	Canite tuba
Elizabeth Poston	Jesus Christ the apple tree
Philipp Nicolai	Wachet auf
Otto Goldschmidt	A tender shoot
Eleanor Farjeon	People look east
Malcolm Archer (arr)	The angel Gabriel
Francisco Guerrero	Rorate caeli
Peter Warlock	Benedicamus Domino
Andrew Carter (arr)	Angelus ad Virginem
Jeremiah Ingalls	Glory to God on high
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O magnum mysterium
Hector Berlioz	Thou must leave Thy lowly dwelling
Pyotyr Tchaikovsky	The crown of roses
Henry Rauscher	Carol of the bells
John Rutter	Candlelight carol
Malcolm Sargent (arr)	Nature carol
Alfonso Maria de� Ligouri	Tu scendi dalle stelle
Anon	Gaudete

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Sunday 25 September 2011	Octagon Theatre, Yeovil
Too Hot to Handel
Armonico Consort Soloists & Baroque Players Conductor: Christopher Monks Countertenor: William Towers Soprano: Yvette Bonner Yeovil Chamber Choir & The Beaminster Singers	Armonico Consort once again interprets music of the Baroque. The story of two lovers carefully intertwines the most ravishing of Handel's arias from his many operas, romping from drama to comedy, from tragedy to laughter.
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Sunday 10 July 2011

St John's Church, Yeovil

Civic Service

Guy Turner	Magnify
Adrian Batten	O sing joyfully
John Rutter	God be in my head

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Saturday 25 June 2011

St George's Church, Hinton St George

Summer Concert: madrigals and part songs

Accompanist: Jean Rudd (piano)
The Mendip Consort | Director: Joyce Rudall
Music by Antonio Bertali, Johann Hermann Schein, Anthony Holborne and Giovanni Battista Vitali

Image from Wikipedia St George's Church, Hinton St George

Benjamin Britten	Flower songs: To daffodils \| The succession of the four sweet months \| The evening primrose
Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
Ciro Pinsuti	Good night, good night beloved
Henry Purcell	In these delightful, pleasant groves
Madrigals
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis I saw
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Thomas Morley	April is in my mistress' face \| Now is the month of Maying \| My bonny lass she smileth
Thomas Vautor	Mother, I will have a husband
Part songs
John Barnby	Sweet and low
Henry Bishop	Home sweet home
Edward Elgar	As torrents in summer
Arthur Sullivan	The long day closes
Charles Wood	Full fathom five

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Sunday 12 June 2011

Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire

Stourhead Festival of the Voice 2011

Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying \| April is in my mistress� face \| My bonny lass she smileth
Henry Purcell	In these delightful pleasant groves
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Edward Chapman (arr)	She�s like the swallow
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The Turtle Dove
Thomas Vautor	Mother I will have a husband
John Barnby	Sweet and low
Charles Wood	Full fathom five
Henry VIII	Pastime with good company

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Saturday 21 May 2011

Church of St Mary the Virgin, East Chinnock

Fund raising concert for the Friends of St Mary's

With Jenny Featherstone (soprano)

Church of St Mary the Virgin, East Chinnock

Henry VIII	Pastime with good company
Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
Thomas Morley	My bonny lass she smileth \| April is in my mistress� face
Thomas Vautor	Mother I will have a husband
Henry Purcell	In these delightful pleasant groves
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Edward T Chapman (arr)	She�s like the swallow
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The Turtle Dove
Charles Wood	Full fathom five
Joseph Barnby	Sweet and low
Henry Bishop	Home sweet home
Arthur Sullivan	The long day closes
Ciro Pinsuti	Good night, Good night, beloved

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Saturday 12 March 2011

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Baroque Classics

Henry Purcell	Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem \| Hear my prayer O Lord \| Funeral music for Queen Mary
Johann Sebastian Bach	Jesus bleibet meine Freude, Chorale from Cantata 147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben \| Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, Motet
Tomaso Albinoni	Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9 No 2. Soloist: Sarah Shore
Antonio Vivaldi	Gloria RV 589 Soloists: Steve Walker (soprano), Corinne Hawkins (alto), Valerie Stewart (alto)

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Wednesday 15 December 2010

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Christmas Concert

John Rutter	Nativity Carol
Harold Darke	In the bleak midwinter
Martin Shaw (arr)	Coventry Carol
Bob Chilcott	Behold that Star \| Christmas Tide
John Joubert	Torches
Dietrich Buxtehude	In dulci jubilo
George Woodward	Up! Good Christen folk
John Rutter	Candlelight Carol
Charles Wood	Past 3 o�clock
John Rutter (arr)	Sans Day Carol
Arthur Warrell (arr)	We wish you a Merry Christmas

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Saturday 20 November 2010

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

A Viennese Evening

W A Mozart	Jubilate Deo
W A Mozart	Sancta Maria mater Dei
W A Mozart	Tantum ergo Soloist: Ursula Davis (soprano)
W A Mozart	Alleluia Soloist: Winston Leese (trumpet)
Franz Schubert	Mass in G major Soloists: Jenny Featherstone (soprano), David Price (tenor), Ray Drewett (bass)
W A Mozart	Ave verum
W A Mozart	Laudate Dominum Soloist: Steve Walker (soprano)
Franz Haydn	Te Deum
Franz Haydn	Trumpet concerto in Eb major Soloist: Winston Leese
Franz Haydn	Achieved is the glorious work (from Creation)
Franz Haydn	Insanae et vanae curae
Franz Haydn	The heavens are telling (from Creation) Soloists: Steve Walker (soprano), Mark Rudd (tenor), Ray Drewett (bass)

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Saturday 19 June 2010

Church of St Peter & St Paul, South Petherton

Madrigals and Part-songs

Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying	Bratton (Carter arr)	The teddy bears' picnic
Thomas Morley	My bonnie lass she smileth	Arthur Sullivan	The lost chord
Bob Chilcott (arr)	Londonderry air	John Bennet	Weep O mine eyes
Bob Chilcott (arr)	Steal away	John Farmer	Fair Phyllis
Bob Chilcott	Irish blessing	Edward Elgar	Three partsongs
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan		O happy eyes \| Love \|
Orlando Gibbons	What is our life?		My love dwelt in a northern land
Glover-Kind (Carter arr)	I do like to be beside the seaside	Guy Turner	Tequila samba

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Saturday 13 March 2010

United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Yeovil

Gioachino Rossini

Petite messe solennelle

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Saturday 21 November 2009

Church of St Peter & St Paul, South Petherton

Franz Haydn	Missa in Angustiis - Nelson Mass
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana	Exsultate jubilate
Giovanni P da Palestrina	Sicut cervus
Johann Brahms	Geistliches Lied
Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine
C�sar Franck	Panis angelicus
Robert Parsons	Ave Maria
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O quam gloriosum est
Sergei Rachmaninoff	Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Hans Leo Hassler	Dixit Maria
Jehan L'H�ritier	Nigra sum sed formosa

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Saturday 20 June 2009

St John's Church, Yeovil

Charles Villiers Stanford	Three motets: Justorum animae \| Coelos ascendit hodie \| Beati quorum via
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Mass in G minor
Charles Villiers Stanford	The blue bird
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Shakespeare songs: Full fathom five \| The cloud-capp�d towers \| Over hill, over dale
Matthew Harris	Three Shakespeare songs: Hark, hark! The lark \| Full fathom five
Edward Naylor	Vox dicentis: clama

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Saturday 14 March 2009

St John's Church, Yeovil

Leonard Bernstein	Chichester Psalms
Gerald Finzi	Lo, the full final sacrifice
John Stainer	The Crucifixion

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Monday 1 December 2008

Waitrose, Crewkerne

Carol Singing

	Away in a manger
	As with gladness
	Ding, dong merrily on high
	Hark the herald angels sing
	O little one sweet, O little one mild
	O come, all ye faithful
	O little town of Bethlehem
	Once in Royal David�s city
	God rest you merry, gentlemen
	It came upon the midnight clear
	King Jesus hath a garden
	Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Coventry Carol)
	Rejoice and be merry
	Gloucestershire wassail
	While shepherds watched
	We wish you a merry Christmas

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Sunday 23 November 2008

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Antonio Vivaldi	Beatus vir (Psalm 112)
Tomaso Albinoni	Adagio in G minor
Claudio Monteverdi	Laudate Dominum (Psalm 117)
Claudio Monteverdi	Beatus vir (Psalm 112)
Juan Gutierrez de Padilla	Missa ego flos campi
Johann Pachelbel	Canon in D
Antonio Vivaldi	Gloria RV 589

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Sunday 15 June 2008

St John's Church, Yeovil

Johann Sebastian Bach	Rutwohl (from St John Passion)
Johann Sebastian Bach	Jesu joy of man�s desiring
David Fanshawe	Lord�s prayer (from the African Sanctus)
Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine
George Frideric Handel	Zadok the priest
Herbert Howells	Like as the hart
Karl Jenkins	Sanctus \| Benedictus \| Agnus Dei (from The Armed Man)
W A Mozart	Ave verum
Charles H H Parry	I was glad
Charles Villiers Stanford	For lo I raise up

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Sunday 9 March 2008

St John's Church, Yeovil

Gabriel Faur�
Maurice Durufl�

Requiem
Requiem

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Saturday 15 December 2007

St John's Church, Yeovil

Heinrich Sch�tz	Christmas Story
Benjamin Britten	Ceremony of carols

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Saturday 16 June 2007
Saturday, 23 June 2007

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil
St Mary's Church, Chard

William Byrd	Mass for 4 voices
William Byrd	Ave verum
Thomas Tallis	If ye love me
Johannes Brahms	Geistliches lied
William H Harris	Bring us, O Lord God
Benjamin Britten	Rejoice in the Lamb
Francis Poulenc	Timor et tremor \| Tenebrae factae sunt (from Quatre Motets Pour un Temps de P�nitence)
Charles Hubert H Parry	My soul there is a country \| There is an old belief \| Never weather beaten sail (from Songs of Farewell)

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Saturday 31 March 2007

St Mary's Church, Dorchester

Johann Sebastian Bach

St John Passion

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Saturday 25 November 2006

Church of All Saints, Martock

Gioachino Rossini

Petite messe solenelle

Saturday 24 June 2006

Church of St Michael the Archangel, North Cadbury

Summer Concert: 16th Century to the Present

William Byrd	Mass for four voices. Kyrie \| Gloria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Super flumina Babylonis \| Sicut cervus
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O quam gloriosum
William Byrd	Mass for four voices. Sanctus \| Benedictus
Ludovico da Viadana	Exsultate justi
Hans Leo Hassler	Dixit Maria
William Byrd	Mass for four voices. Agnus Dei I \| Agnus Dei I I
Michael Tippett	Spirituals from A Child of Our Time. Steal away \| Nobody knows \| Nobody knows \| Go down Moses \| By and by \| Deep river
William Walton	Jubilate
Charles Villiers Stanford	Justonrm animae \| Beati quorum via
Johannes Brahms	Geistliches Lied
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry	I was glad

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Saturday 25 March 2006

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Missa nigra sum
Jehan L'H�ritier	Nigra sum sed formosa
Michael Tippett	Spirituals from A Child of Our Time \| Dance, clarion air
William Walton	Jubilate

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Wednesday 14 December 2005

St Andrew's Church, Yeovil

Christmas Concert

Robert Lucas de Pearsall (arr)	In dulci jubilo
Herbert Howells	A spotless rose
Benjamin Britten	A boy was born
William Walton	What cheer!
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The blessed son of God
David Willcocks (arr)	Sussex Carol
Charles Wood	A Virgin most pure
David Willcocks (arr)	Infant holy, infant lowly
Johann Sebastian Bach	O little one sweet
Pierre Villette	Hymne � la Vierge
Peter Warlock	Bethlehem down
G R Woodward (harm)	Up! Good Christen folk and listen
William Mathias	Sir Christ�mas

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Saturday 26 November 2005

Church of St Peter & St Paul, South Petherton

Benjamin Britten	Ceremony of carols
Franz Haydn	St Nicholas Mass

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Sunday 26 June 2005

St Catherine's Church, Montacute

Midsummer Mozart and the Viennese Masters

Georg von Reutter	Ecce quomodo moritur
Franz Schubert	Six antiphons for Palm Sunday
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger	Mass in D major
Christoph Willibald Gluck	De profundis (Psalm 130)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mass in D major KV 194 \| Ave verum corpus
Antonio Salieri	Confirma hoc Deus

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Sunday 20 March 2005

All Saints� Church, Martock

Thomas Tallis & his contemporaries

Thomas Tallis	If ye love me \| Te lucis ante terminum \| O Lord give thy holy spirit \| Euge caeli porta \| This is my commandment \| Lamentations of Jeremiah I \| Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Short Service) \| O sacrum convivium \| Blessed are those that be undefiled
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Ave Maria \| O vos omnes \| Jesu dulcis memoria \| O quam gloriosum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Sicut cervus \| Exsultate Deo
Orlande de Lassus	Adoramus te \| Timor et tremor

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Wednesday 22 December 2004

All Saints� Church, Merriott

Music for Christmas

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Matin reponsory
Michael Praetorius	A great and mighty wonder
Frederick Bainton	A babe is born I wys
Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Omni die dic Mariae
Patrick Hadley	I sing of a maiden Soloists: Sarah Best and Steve Walker
Marc-Antoine Charpentier	O sacrum convivium
John Rutter (arr)	Cradle Somg
Charles Wood	King Jesus hath a garden
John Joubert	Torches
Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Salve puerule
Reginald Jacques	Rejoice and be merry
David Willcocks	God rest you merry, gentlemen
William Walton	All this time this song is best

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Saturday 27 November 2004

St Nicholas Church, Combe St Nicholas, Chard

French Baroque Masterpieces

Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Omni die dic Mariae (H 334) O sacrum convivium (H 278)
Guillaume Bouzignac	Ecce Homo \| Salve Jesu piissime \| Heu suspiro
�tienne Moulini�	Dum esset rex
Henri Du Mont	Cantantibus organis \| Desidero te millies
Sebastien de Brossard	Domine salvum fac regem
Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Messe de minuit (H 9)
Paolo Lorenzani	Regina caeli

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Sunday 13 June 2004

Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul, Wincanton

English Church Music 17th - 20th Century

John Blow	Behold O God our defender \| Let my prayer come up
Henry Purcell	Man that is born of a woman \| O God, thou art my God
Maurice Greene	Thou visitest the earth
William Boyce	I was glad
Herbert Howells	Psalm 123, from Requiem (1936) \| Psalm 121, from Requiem \| O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Benjamin Britten	Deus in adjutorium
William Mathias	Let the people praise thee O God

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Saturday 3 April 2004

Cheap Street Church, Sherborne

European Sacred Music 16th - 20th century

Lodovico Viadana	Exsultate justi in Domino
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Jesu dulcis memoria \| Ave Maria
Diogo Dias Melgas	Ecce ascendimus
Dimitry Bortynansky	Adoremus
Sergei Rachmaninoff	Beatus vir \| Bogoroditsye dyevo
Johann Sebastian Bach	O Jesu Christ meins lebens licht
Howard Goodall	The Lord is my shepherd
Edvard Grieg	Ave maria stella
Giacomo Rossini	O salutaris hostia
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	Verleih uns frieden
Anton Bruckner	Locus iste
Igor Stravinsky	Ave Maria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Ave verum corpus
Paolo Lorenzani	Regina caeli

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Saturday 6 December 2003

St Bartholomew�s Church, Crewkerne

Music for Advent

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Missa aeterna Christi munera
Gustav Holst	I love my love (Cornish Folk song)
Charles Stanford	The blue bird \| Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G
Ottorino Respighi	Lauda per la nativita del Signore
Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine

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Saturday 28 June 2003

Church of St Michael & All Angels, Somerton

Music for a Midsummer Evening

Alice Dicker | clarinet
Willow Lowry | viola
Tatiana Haigh | violin

John Rutter	Four childhood lyrics Monday's child \| The owl and the pussycat \| Matthew, Mark, Luke and John \| Sing a song of sixpence
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Sweet day
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Shakespeare songs Full fathom five \| The cloud-capp'd tower \| Over hill, over dale
Guy Turner	Time after time
Johnny Mercer	Laura
Fats Waller	Ain't misbehavin'
Lindsay Gray (arr)	Scarborough Fair \| The lass of Richmond Hill

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Saturday 29 March 2003

Church of All Saints, Merriott

Marc-Antoine Charpentier	Te Deum in D
George Frideric Handel	O praise the Lord with one consent Chandos Anthem No 6 in E flat
Johann Sebastian Bach	Cantata BWV 48, Ich elender Mensch
Antonio Vivaldi	Gloria RV588

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Friday 20 December 2002

St Michael�s Church, East Coker

Christmas Concert

Johann Georg Ebeling	All my heart this night rejoices
Basque carol David Willcocks (arr)	Gabriel�s message
Herbert Howells	A spotless rose
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on Christmas carols
John Rutter	Nativity Carol
Peter Warlock	Benedicamus Domino
John Rutter (arr)	Quem pastores laudavere
Peter Cornelius Ivor Atkins (arr)	The Three Kings
David Willcocks (arr)	Ding, dong merrily on high

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Saturday 23 November 2002

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Anton�n Dvoř�k	Mass in D
Malcolm Archer	Requiem

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Saturday 29 June 2002

St Barnabas' Church, Queen Camel

Music for a Midsummer Evening

Ludovico Viadana	Exsultate justi [Shout for joy, ye righteous]
Tom�s Luis de Victoria (attrib)	Ave Maria
Anton Bruckner	Ave Maria \| Locus iste [This is God's house]
Sergei Rachmaninov	Bogoroditsye Dyevo [Ave Maria]
Thomas Morley	Sing we and chant it
John Ward	Out from the vale
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Thomas Greaves	Come away, sweet love
Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine
English folksong Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr)	Greensleeves
Newfoundland folksong Edward Chapman (arr)	She�s like the swallow
Traditional American lullaby John Rutter (arr)	Black sheep
Sea Shanty Gustav Holst (arr)	Sea Shanty

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Saturday 16 March 2002

St Peter's Church, Shaftesbury

Johann Sebastian Bach

St John Passion

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Friday 21 December 2001

St Michael�s Church, East Coker

Christmas Concert

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Matin Responsory
Stephen Bell	Adam lay ybounden
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr)	The Truth from Above
William Walton	All this time
Traditional Normandy tune Reginald Jacques (arr)	Away in a manger
Kenneth Leighton	Lully, lulla thou little tiny child
Elizabeth Poston	Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
David Willcocks (arr)	Sussex Carol
John Rutter	Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Andrew Carter	Mary's Magnificat
Richard Shephard	The great God of heaven
Arthur Warrell (arr)	Merry Christmas

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Saturday 17 November 2001

St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne

Choral Masterpieces from the 16th and 20th centuries

Orlando Gibbons	Fantasia of Foure Parts (Parthenia)
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Motet: O quam gloriosum est \| Missa: O quam gloriosum est
Charles Villiers Stanford	Te Deum in B flat \| Justorum animae [The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God] \| Beati quorum via [Blessed are those who are undefiled in the way]
Herbert Howells	Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks \| Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale)
Charles Wood	Expectans, expectavi (This sanctuary of my soul) \| Hail gladdening light

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Saturday 14 July 2001

St John's Church, Yeovil

A Summer Concert

Tom�s Luis de Victoria	Motet: O quam gloriosum est
John IV, King of Portugal	Crux fidelis
Henry Purcell	Hear my prayer, O Lord
Antonio Lotti	Crucifixus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Tu es Petrus
Charles Wood	Hail, gladdening light
Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine
Francis Poulenc	Salve Regina
Gerald Finzi	God is gone up
John Byrt (arr)	Among the leaves so green-o
Donald James (arr)	Bushes and Briars
John Rutter (arr)	O waly, waly \| Sourwood Mountain
Andrew Carter (arr)	Autumn leaves \| Night and day
Lindsay Gray (arr)	The Lass of Richmond Hill

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Saturday 17 March 2001

Church of St Peter & St Paul, South Petherton

George Frideric Handel	Let thy hand be strengthened Coronation Anthem No 3
Johann Sebastian Bach	Cantata BWV 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Johann Sebastian Bach	Mass in G minor

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Friday 20 December 2000

St Michael�s Church, East Coker

Charles Wood	Ding, dong merrily on high
Old Basque carol	The Angel Gabriel from heaven came
John Rutter	Nativity Carol
John Goss David Willcocks (arr)	See amid the winter�s snow (with audience)
Boris Ord	Adam lay ybounden
David Willcocks (arr)	Resonemus laudibus
John Rutter (arr)	Sans Day Carol
David Willcocks (arr)	Infant Holy, infant lowly
John Rutter	For the beauty of the earth
J H Hopkins William Slogrove (arr)	We Three Kings (with audience)
Old Basque carol	I saw a maiden
Colin Mawby	Ave verum corpus
John Rutter	Star Carol \| Jesus Child
David Willcocks (arr)	Masters in this hall

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Monday 18 December 2000

Sherborne Abbey

A Christmas Concert
Yeovil Chamber Choir | Sherborne Chamber Choir | William Slogrove Singers | Sherborne Young Singers

Felix Mendelssohn	All that has life and breath, sing to the Lord
Colin Mawby	Ave verum corpus

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Wednesday 28 June 2000

Saint Mary's Church, Beaminster

Beaminster Festival

Sunday 2 July 2000

All Saints' Church, Merriott

A Summer Concert

Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
John Bennet	Weep, O mine eyes \| All creatures now are merry, merry minded
Thomas Morley	Sing we and chant it
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Lay a garland on her hearse
Charles Villiers Stanford	The bluebird
William Sterndale Bennett	Come live with me and be my love
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Linden Lea \| The Turtle Dove \| The dark eyed sailor \| Just as the tide was flowing
Guy Turner	Time After Time 1. Time (Wasting) 2. Time (Haven�t got it) 3. Time (and Rosemary) 4. Time (Justin) 5. Time (Piece)

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Saturday 18 March 2000

All Saints Church, Martock

Franz Josef Haydn	Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mass in C (Coronation Mass) K317

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Saturday 20 November 1999

St Bartholomew�s Church, Crewkerne

Claudio Monteverdi	Beatus vir \| Laudate Dominum
Antonio Vivaldi	Credo \| Beatus vir
Tomaso Albinoni	Magnificat \| Adagio
Johann Pachelbel	Kanon

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Saturday 27 June 1999

Church of St Peter & St Paul, Chiselborough

Four fifteenth Century Songs
Costanzo Festo	Quando ritrova
Robert Cornysh	Adew adew
Juan Encina	Mas vale trocar
Anon	Tapster dryngker
Three English Madrigals
Thomas Morley	April is in my mistress� face
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis
Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
Three English Madrigals
Thomas Morley	Fyre! Fyre!
Thomas Vautor	Mother I will have a husband
John Wilbye	Draw on sweet night
Matyas Seiber	Six Yugoslav folksongs The unfaithful lover \| Handsome Mirko \| Eighteen shining buttons \| Heavens above \| Hussars \| Fairy tale
Three English Songs
Gerald Finzi	My spirit sang all day
Charles Vincent	I think of thee
Michael Stocks (arr)	Every night when the sun goes down

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Saturday 27 March 1999

St Michael�s Church, East Coker

Gabriel Faur�	Cantique de Jean Racine
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Five Mystical Songs
Gabriel Faur�	Requiem

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Saturday 5 December 1998

St Mary�s Church, Dorchester

Franz Schubert	Mass in G
Marc Antoine Charpentier	Messe de Minuit

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Saturday 27 June 1998

St George�s Church, Hinton St George

Three Madrigals
John Farmer	Fair Phyllis
John Bennet	Weep, O mine eyes
Thomas Morley	Now is the month of Maying
Three Folk-Songs
Hugh S Roberton (arr)	Flow gently sweet Afton
Avril Dankworth (arr)	Shenandoah
Guy Turner (arr)	Danny Boy
Three Rather American Songs
Guy Turner	Suburban cowboy \| Sure \| Go take a train
Close Harmony Arrangements
Benny Carter & David Blackwell (arr)	Deep purple
George Gershwin Roderick Williams (arr)	Summertime
George Gershwin David Blackwell (arr)	�S wonderful
Peter Gratton (arr)	Tea for two
Guy Turner (arr)	Over the rainbow
Cole Porter David Blackwell (arr)	Let�s do it

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Saturday 14 March 1998

St Bartholomew�s Church, Crewkerne

In the first part of our programme we alternate classic anthems from the turn of the century with movements from Byrd�s four-part Mass from the end of the 16th century.
Charles Villiers Stanford	Coelos ascendit hodie
William Byrd	Kyrie
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry	My soul there is a country
William Byrd	Sanctus
E L Bainton	Open Thy gates
William Byrd	Agnus Dei
Johannes Brahms	Five Quartet Songs Der Gang zum Liebchen (Op 33, #3) Der Abend (Op 64, #2) Sp�therbst (Op 92, #2) Abendlied (Op92, #3) An die Heimat (Op 64 #1)

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Saturday 6 December 1997

United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Yeovil

Henry Balfour Gardiner	Evening Hymn
Charles Villiers Stanford	Three motets. Justorum animae \| Coelos ascendit hodie \| Beati quorum via
Guy Turner	Ave. Soloists: Kate Mooney \| Kate Pearce
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Vesperae Solennes de Confessore Soloists: Belinda Evans (Soprano) \| Clare Morris (Alto) \| Keith Hunt (Tenor) \| Chris Bye (Bass)

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Saturday 29 June 1997

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Chiselborough

John Wilbye	Three madrigals. Lady, when I behold \| Adieu, sweet amarylis \| Flora gave me fairest flowers
Claude Debussy	Trois Chansons de Charles d�Orl�ans Dieu! qu�il la fait bon regarder \| Quant j�ai ouy le tabourin \| Yver vous n�estes qu�un villain
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Four part-songs. Light of my soul \| Why do the roses \| Adieu, my native shore \| Lay a garland
Charles Villiers Stanford	The bluebird
Four part-songs by local composers
Reg Pocock	Song of Hope
Stephen Knight	What cruel pains Corinna takes
Joan Russell	Merlin
Guy Turner	Song
Three light arrangements
Janet Wheeler (arr)	Buttons and bows \| Green, green
Guy Turner	Over the rainbow

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Saturday 15 March 1997

Church of St Michael the Archangel, North Cadbury

E L Bainton	Two anthems. Open Thy gates \| In the wilderness
William Byrd	Two motets. Civitas sancti tui \| Rorate coeli
Anton Bruckner	Three motets. Locus iste \| Os justi \| Christus factus est
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Four part-songs. Light of my soul \| Why do the roses \| Adieu, my native shore \| Lay a garland
Guy Turner	Dawne Songs. The wild duck \| Tenebris interlucem \| At night \| The birds \| Owls \| Song

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Saturday 7 December 1996

Church of St Martin of Tours, West Coker

A Concert of Sacred Music by English Composers

Benjamin Britten	Te Deum in C Soloist: Bryony Rudd (Soprano)
John Taverner	Dum transisset sabbatum
William Harris	Faire is the heaven
Henry Purcell	Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
John Rutter	Requiem Soloist: Belinda Evans (Soprano)

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Sunday 16 June 1996

All Saints' Church, Merriott

Summer Concert

Carlo Gesualdo	O vos omnes
Carlo Gesualdo	Ave dulcissima Maria
Thomas Vautor	Sweet Suffolk Owl
John Frederick Bridge	The Goslings
Peter Philips	Salve salutaris victima \| Christus resurgens ex mortis
Adriano Banchieri	Contraponto bestiale alla mente
Benjamin Cooke	Hark, Hark the lark \| Epitaph on a Dormouse
Richard Stevens	Ye spotted snakes
John Whitworth	The Mermaid
Manning Sherwin	A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
C E Horn	Cherry ripe
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry	Never weather-beaten sail
Arthur Sullivan	The long day closes

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?? March 1996

A Concert of Sacred and Secular Music

Henry Purcell	Funeral Music and Canzona Hear my prayer O Lord \| Remember not Lord, our offences \| Thou knowest. Lord \| Funeral March
Maurice Greene	Lord, let me know mine end
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Missa Brevis
Thomas Morley	Fyre! Fyre!
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
Elizabeth Poston	Jesus Christ the apple tree
George Gershwin	Love walked right in
Antony Saunders (arr)	Fascinating rhythm
Manning Sherwin	A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
C E Horn	Cherry ripe

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Sunday 25 June 1995

Church of St Mary-the Virgin, Norton-sub-Hamdon

National Music Day

Thomas Weelkes	Hosanna to the son of David \| When David heard \| Gloria in excelsis Deo (three motets)
Benjamin Britten	Hymn to St Cecilia
Thomas Weelkes	Hark all ye lovely saints \| O care, thou wilt despatch me \| Sing we at pleasure (three madrigals)
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The spring time of the year
Hugh Roberton	Flow gently sweet Afton
Guy Turner (arr)	O waly waly [The water is wide, I cannot get o'er]
Ralph Vaughan Williams	The dark-eyed sailor
Guy Turner	Four Slices of Pizza. This pie�s too big \| I�ve never bought her a pizza \| The happy anchovy \| Deep pan

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Saturday 29 April 1995

St Michael's Church, East Coker

A Concert of Sacred Music

Herbert Howells	A Hymn for St Cecilia
William Byrd	Ave verum
Thomas Weelkes	Gloria in excelsis Deo
William Byrd	Justorum animae \| Sing joyfully
Thomas Weelkes	When David heard
Herbert Howells	O pray for the peace of Jerusalem \| We have heard with our ears \| Like as the hart \| Let God arise
Benjamin Britten	Hymn to St Cecilia
Guy Turner	Four Slices of Pizza. This pie�s too big \| I�ve never bought her a pizza \| The happy anchovy \| Deep pan

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Saturday 3 December 1994

Holy Trinity Church, Peter Street, Yeovil

A Concert of Sacred Music

Charles Wood	Hail gladdening light
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry	My soul there is a country \| Never, weather beaten sail \| There is an old belief. From Songs of Farewell
Maurice Durufl�	Ubi caritas \| Tota pulchra es \| Tu es Petrus \| Tantum ergo
Pierre Villette	Hymne � la Vierge
Benjamin Britten	Hymn to the Virgin
Henry Purcell	Remember not, Lord, our offences \| Hear my prayer O Lord
William Byrd	Laudibus in sanctis

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Sunday 26 June 1994

St Catherine�s Church, Montacute

Music for a Summer�s Day. Concert in aid of the restoration appeal

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	O sacrum convivium
Randall Thompson	Alleluia
Charles Villiers Stanford	Three motets. Justorum animae \| Coelos ascendit hodie \| Beati quorum via
Gerald Finzi	My spirit sang all day
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Lay a garland
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Shakespeare songs Full fathom five thy father lies \| The cloud capp�d towers \| Over hill, over dale
Michael Tippett	Spirituals from A Child of Our Time. Steal away \| Nobody knows \| Go down Moses \| By and by \| Deep river Soloists: Heather Taylor, Josephine Sawney, Ken Sherring, Christopher Bye

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Sunday 23 April 1994

Holy Trinity Church, Peter Street, Yeovil

Music for St George's Day

Ralph Vaughan Williams	Valiant-for-truth
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	Super flumina Babylonis
Tom�s Luis de Victoria	O quam gloriosum est
Randall Thompson	Alleluia
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Shakespeare songs Full fathom five thy father lies \| The cloud capp�d towers \| Over hill, over dale
Thomas Weelkes	Hark all ye lovely saints above
Orlando Gibbons	The silver swan
William Byrd	Though Amarillis dance in green
Thomas Tomkins	Too much I once lamented
Charles Villiers Stanford	The blue bird
Gerald Finzi	My spirit sang all day
Edward Elgar	As torrents in summer
Robert Lucas de Pearsall	Lay a garland
Guy Turner	Three rather American Songs. Suburban cowboy \| Sure \| Like a train

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Sunday 27 June 1993

Holy Trinity Church, Peter Street, Yeovil

Inaugural Concert of Sacred and Secular Music | National Music Day

Tom�s Luis de Victoria	In festo natalis Domini
Salomone de Rossi	Elokim hashivenu
Orazio Vecchi	Cantate Domino
Anton Bruckner	Pange lingua \| Locus iste \| Christus factus est
Johann Sebastian Bach	Lobet den Herrn (Psalm 117)
Robert Schumann	John Andersen \| Jaegerlied
Johannes Brahms	In stiller Nacht \| Der Jaeger
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Three Elizabethan Songs. Sweet Day \| The Willow Song \| O mistress mine
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr)	Just as the tide was flowing

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