Madrigals & Part Songs


Madrigals & Part Songs in a beautiful garden (or Old Hall if wet). Lie back, relax and listen to some beautiful part songs and madrigals, from Gibbons' The Silver Swan to Stanford's The Bluebird. Bring a deck chair, a rug and a picnic. Wine will be served.


Date:

Saturday 29th June 2002 at 7.00pm

Venue:

Wellington College Garden, Crowthorne

Programme:

English Madrigals
- Farmer: A little pretty bonny lass
- Bennett: Weep, O mine eyes
- Gibbons: The silver swan

English Twentieth-Century Folksongs
- Vaughan Williams: The turtle dove
- Delius: To be sung of a summer night on the water

Love Songs for Springtime - Paul Halley
- Soldier, won't you marry me?
- The despairing lover
- The bailiff's daughter

Popular Music of the Twentieth-Century
- Arlen/Harburg: Somewhere over the rainbow
- Sherwin (arr. Neaum): A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
- Youmans (arr. Gritton): Tea for two
- Rogers (arr. Blackwell): Blue Moon
- Waller/Brooks (arr. Gritton): Ain't misbehavin'

English Madrigals
- Farmer: Fair Phyllis
- Morley: April is in my mistress' face
- Farnaby: Pearce did dance

Love Songs for Springtime - Paul Halley
- The lover's arithmetic
- The seeds of love
- The maypole

English Twentieth-Century Folksongs
- Stanford: The Bluebird
- Holst: I love my love

Popular Music of the Twentieth-Century
- Lennon/McCartney (arr. Coates): The Long and Winding Road
- Bacharach (arr. Rogers): Close to you
- Shearing (arr. Carter): Lullaby of birdland
- Carter (arr. Stephenson): Goodnight sweetheart

Musical Director:

Paul Stephenson

Performing:

Voci Cantanti chamber choir

Tickets:

FREE to Friends of Voci Cantanti.

£5.
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