Past programmes
December 2019
Programme
Soloists
Emma Garbett - Soprano
Deborah Hewertson-Tisdall - Alto
Chris Hardman - Tenor
Geoffrey Gray - Bass
Choir - Holy is the true light - Richard Shephard
The Souls of the Righteous - Geraint Lewis
Gordon Mursell - organ - Prelude in E flat, BWV 552 Johann Sebastian Bach
Choir - Missa Brevis in G major K49 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Short Interval
Chris Hardman - From Messiah. Comfort ye - Every Valley - Frederick Handel
Audience Carol - Away in a manger
Choir - Here we come a-wassailing - John Rutter
Watts’ Cradle Song - arr. Summison
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - John Gardner
Geoffrey Gray - The Carol Singers - Thomas Sterndale Bennett
Audience Carol - God rest ye, merry gentlemen
Choir - Masters in this hall - David Willcocks
Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock
Silent Night - arr. David Willcocks
Audience Carol - O come, all ye faithful
Choir - Ragtime Carol - John Hewitt
Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire - Mel Torme
Twelve days of Christmas - Andrew Carter
May 2019 concerts
Programme – Waltzes and Jerusalem
soloists:
Susan Jordan - soprano
Chris Hardman - tenor
James Johnson - bass
and
James Booth - Guitar
Liebeslieder Walzer Op. 52 Johannes Brahms
Interval
Choir
O Happy Eyes Edward Elgar
I Priase the Tender Flowe Gerald Finzi
The Hills John Ireland
Owls Edward Elgar
James Booth
Sarabande BWV 997 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude no 1 Heitor Villa Lobos
Choir
From - The Sprig of Thyme John Rutter
The Cuckoo
The Miller of Dee
I Know Where I'm Going
Afton Water
James Booth
Bagatelle no 2 (lento) William Walton
Flow my Tears (Soloist Sarah Lewis-Briggs) John Dowland
Choir
My Soul, There Is A Country Hubert Parry
Crossing the Bar Hubert Parry
Jerusalem Hubert Parry
Spring Programme 2016
Choir
My spirit sang all day – Finzi
My love dwelt in a Northern land – Elgar
My Delight and Thy Delight – Parry
Readings – Kathleen Douglas
Home thoughts from abroad – Robert Browning
The road not taken – Robert Frost
The way through the woods – Rudyard Kipling
Choir
Three songs from The Sprig of Thyme – Rutter
The Bold Grenadier
The Keel Row
The Sprig of Thyme
Guest Soloist – Robert Henderson
The Turtle Dove – Vaughn Williams
Flow My Tears – Dowland
I wished to be single again – Trad.
Choir
O can ye sew cushions – traditional, arr.Bantock
Bobby Shaftoe – traditional. arr. Whittaker
Yarmouth Fair – traditional, arr. Warlock
Interval
Choir
Two Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare – Shearing
Live with me and be my love
Who is Sylvia
Kathleen Douglas
Shall I compare thee to a summers day – William Shakespeare
Deborah Hewerson-Tisdall
The Green Cornfield – Michael Head
Choir
The Blue Bird – Stanford; Soloist Sarah Lewis-Briggs
Go Lovely Rose – Thiman
The Shower – Elgar
Guest Soloist – Robert Henderson
Three movements from Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite – Paul Reade
Prelude – Spring – Summer
Choir
Blow Away the Morning Dew – traditional, arr. Morris
Afton Water – arr. Patterson
O, No John – traditional, arr. Thiman
December 2015
Conductor – Anthony Peacock
Choir Accompanist – Avril Tisdall
Organist – John Cooper-Green
St. Margaret Mary’s Church,
Upperby, Carlisle
Saturday December 12th 2015 - 7.30pm
Arthuret Church, Longtown
Sunday December 13th 2015 – 6.00pm
Saint Nicholas Mass – F. J. Haydn
Kyrie Eleison
Gloria in Excelsis
Credo
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
A Short Interval
Audience Carol
Once in Royal David’s city
unaccompanied solo – Elaine Wrigley
Reading – Anthony Peacock
Preparations – Anonymous – Sixteenth Century
Choir
The shepherd’s cradle song – Leuner/Macpherson
As the bells ring – Chilcott
Audience Carol
O come, all ye faithful
Flute Solo – Helen Jackson
Hala Baita – traditional Basque – arr. Galway
Choir
A Simple Gloria – Larsen
Zither Carol – Sargent
Reading – Tim Coombe
Shepherds’ Carol – Norman Nicholson
Choir
Lullay, my liking – Hewitt-Jones
Solo – Kathleen Peacock – mezzo soprano
Prepare thyself Zion – Christmas Oratorio – J. S. Bach
Choir
Away in a manger – arr. Ola Gjeilo – solo duo – Flo Rice and Joanne King
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – arr. Willcocks
Infant Holy – Malcolm Archer
Audience Carol
O little town of Bethlehem
Reading – Kathleen Douglas
Christmas Bells – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Choir
Shepherds Pipe Carol – Rutter – Flute Obligato – Helen Jackson
Shepherds Farewell – Berlioz
Audience Carol
Ding dong merrily on high in heav’n the bells are ringing
December 2014
Conductor – Anthony Peacock
Accompanist – Avril Tisdall
Clarinet – Isobel Mortimer
Readings selected by Canon Chris Morris
St. Cuthbert’s Church, Carlisle
Friday December 12th 2014 - 7.30pm
Rose Castle, Dalston
Saturday December 13th 2014 - 7.30pm
All Saint’s Church, Cockermouth
Sunday December 14th 2014 - 3pm
Mass for Four Voices William Byrd (1543 – 1623)
Short Interval
Part Two
Audience Carol
Ding dong merrily on high
Geraint Howel
Christmas Bells A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Choir
Christmas is Coming Sir Henry Walford Davies
The Holy Boy John Ireland
Isobel Mortimer
Three Bagatelles – Romance – Carol – Forlana Gerald Finzi
Choir
The Holly and the Ivy Sir Henry Walford Davies
Dormi Jesu John Rutter
Kathleen Douglas
Preparations A poem by an anonymous writer
Audience Carol
Away in a Manger
Choir
Benedicamus Domino Peter Warlock
Ave Maria Sir Edward Elgar
Angelus Sir Edward Elgar
Charlie Foster
Shepherd’s Carol A poem by Norman Nicholson
Choir
Rejoice and be Merry John Rutter
Song of the Crib Arthur Warrell
Isobel Mortimer
The Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite Paul Reade
Audience Carol
O come, all ye faithful
Choir
Noe! Noe! Mack Wilberg
