classical music programme notes by Mike Wheeler

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Choral/vocal

Allegri, Gregorio Miserere

anon. Advent antiphons (plainsong)

carols:
'In Dulci Jubilo'
'Noel Nouvelet'
'Past Three O'Clock'
'The Angel Gabriel' (arr Pettman)

'Greensleeves'

Archer, Malcolm My song is love unknown

Bach, JS Cantatas: 4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden'

82 ‘Ich habe genug’

140 ‘Wachet auf!'

147 ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'

170 ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’

202 ‘Weichet nur, betrübte schatten' (Wedding Cantata)

Magnificat

St John Passion

Beach, Amy songs

Bennet, John Madrigals

Bennett, Sir Richard Rodney All the King's men

Berio, Luciano Opus number zoo

Berlin, Irving 'I Left my Heart at the Stage Door Canteen'

Berlioz, Hector Nuits d'été

Bernstein, Leonard Chichester Psalms

On the town

West Side story

Bizet, Georges Carmen: Seguidilla

Te Deum

Bizet/Hammerstein Carmen Jones

Blow, John Salvator mundi

Borodin, Alexander Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

Brahms, Johannes Two songs for contralto, viola and piano, Op 91

Britten, Benjamin A birthday hansel

Canticle 2: Abraham and Isaac

A ceremony of carols

Five flower songs, Op 47

Folk song arrangements

Jubilate Deo

Nocturne

Noye's fludde

Saint Nicolas

Te Deum in C

Bruckner, Anton Mass no 2, E minor

motets

Byrd, William Haec dies

Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui

O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen

Sing joyfully

Teach me, o Lord, the way of thy statutes

Canteloube, Joseph Songs of the Auvergne

Vocalise étude en forme de bourrée

Carter, Andrew Te Deum

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine Messe de minuit

Chausson, Ernest Chanson perpétuelle

Chansons de Shakespeare

Chopin, Fryderyck Songs, op 74

Copland, Aaron Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson

Cowell, Henry songs

Crawford Seeger, Ruth Five songs

Cutts, Peter (arr) Christ is alive!

Debussy, Claude Fêtes galantes, bk 1

Three songs, texts by Paul Bourget

Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans

Delius, Frederick To be sung of a summer night on the water

Dowland, John Songes or ayres (1597)

Doyle, Patrick Henry V

Duparc, Henri songs

Dvořák, Antonín Biblical songs

Mass in D

Stabat mater

Dyson, Sir George Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in D

Elgar, Sir Edward From the Bavarian highlands

Give unto the Lord

The music makers

Partsongs, Op 18

Sea pictures

Fauré, Gabriel Maria Mater gratiae

Requiem

Songs: La bonne chanson

Cinq mélodies de Venise

Opp 7, 23, 27, 83

Finzi, Gerald Dies natalis

Lo, the full, final sacrifice

Seven unaccompanied part songs, op 17

Till earth outwears

Franck, César Panis angelicus

Gabrieli, Giovanni In ecclesiis

Gershwin, George songs

Gibbons, Orlando Hosanna to the son of David

madrigals

O clap your hands

This is the record of John

Goss, Sir John If we believe that Jesus died

Grieg, Edvard Songs: Opp 5, 33

Gurney, Ivor Ludlow and Teme

Handel, George Frederick Coronation anthems

Dettingen Te Deum

Jephtha: ‘Waft her, angels, through the skies’

Messiah

Harris, Sir William Bring us, O Lord God

Faire is the heaven

Haydn, Joseph The Creation

Insanae et vanae curae

Masses: Missa brevis Sancti Joh. de Deo (‘Little organ mass')

Harmoniemesse

Six original canzonettas

The seasons

Te Deum (1800)

Head, Michael

'Foxgloves'

Heath-Gracie, George I sing of a maiden

Heuberger, Richard Der opernball – ‘Geh’n wir in’s Chambre séparée’; Mazurka

Holst, Gustav The hymn of Jesus

Honegger, Arthur A Christmas cantata

Howells, Herbert Hymnus paradisi

King David

Ireland, John

Ex ore innocentium

'Sea Fever'

Ives, Charles songs

Jannequin, Clément chansons

Kander, John Cabaret

Kern, Jerome Showboat

Kodály, Zoltan Jesus and the traders

Lassus, Orlande de chansons

Super flumina Babylonis

Lehár, Franz Giuditta: ‘Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss'

Lennon, John and McCartney, Paul song arrangements

Loesser, Frank The most happy fella

Loewe, Ferederick My fair lady

Lotti, Antonio Crucifixus à 8

Mahler, Gustav early songs

Rückert-Lieder

Mathias, William Missa Aedis Christi

Mendelssohn, Felix Hear my prayer

Messiaen, Olivier Vocalise-étude

Monteverdi, Claudio Beatus vir

Moore, Philip It is a thing most wonderful

Morley, Thomas Madrigals

Mozart, Wolfgang Ave verum corpus

Exsultate, jubilate

Masses: Missa Brevis, D, K194

Missa Brevis, C, K258

‘Coronation' Mass, K317

Requiem

songs: ‘Abendempfindung an Laura’

‘An Chloë’
‘Dans un bois solitaire’

‘Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge'

Vesperae solennes de confessore

Nordheim, Arne Music to two fragments to music by Shelley

Novello, Ivor King's Rhapsody: ‘Some day my heart will awake'

Nystedt, Knut O crux

Offenbach, Jacques La belle Hélène

La grande-duchesse de Gérolstein

La Périchole

Robinson Crusoe

Parry, Sir Hubert Blest pair of sirens

Hear my words, ye people

I was glad

Jerusalem

Songs of farewell

plainsong The Advent antiphons

Poulenc, Francis ‘Les chemins de l’amour’

Four Christmas motets

Vocalise

Porter, Cole 50 million Frenchmen

Anything goes

Kiss me, Kate

songs

Praetorius, Hieronymus

In dulci jubilo

Purcell, Henry The fairy queen

Funeral sentences/Queen Mary's funeral music

Hear my prayer

I was glad (2nd setting)

In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor)

O God, thou art my God

Rejoice in the Lord alway (‘Bell anthem')

Songs: ‘The fatal hour comes on apace'

‘I attempt from love's sickness to fly'

‘If music be the food of love' (3 settings)

‘Sweeter than roses'

They that go down to the sea in ships

Quilter, Roger

To Julia, Op 8

Rakhmaninov, Sergey Vocalise, Op 34/14

Ravel, Maurice Five Greek folksongs

Trois poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé

Ravenscroft, Thomas Melismata

Respighi, Ottorino Il tramonto

Rodgers, Richard Carousel

On your toes

South Pacific

The king and I

Rose, Barry Psalm 121

Rossini, Gioacchino Stabat mater

Roth, Alec Chinese gardens

Rutter, John Magnificat

Praise the Lord, o my soul

Requiem

The Lord bless you and keep you

Schoenberg, Arnold Ode to Napoleon

Schubert, Franz Die schöne Müllerin

Mass no 2, G, D167

The shepherd on the rock

songs

Schumann, Robert Dichterliebe

Shostakovich, Dmitri Seven romances on poems by Alexander Blok

Schütz, Heinrich Es gingen zweene Menschen hinauf

Shephard, Richard And when the builders

Sherwin, Manning, and Maschwitz, Eric

'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square'

Sondheim, Stephen Anyone can whistle

A little night music

Follies

Stainer, Sir John The crucifixion

Stanford, Sir Charles For lo, I raise up

Magnificat & Nunc dimittis, A

Songs of the fleet

Te deum, B flat

Statham, Heathcote

Te Deum (1931)

Stolz, Robert Der favorit

Straus, Oscar The Chocolate soldier

Sumsion, Herbert They that go down to the sea in ships

Sweelinck, Jan Pieterzoon

Hodie Christus natus est

Tallis, Thomas If ye love me

Lamentations of Jeremiah

Mass for four voices

O salutaris hostia

Salvator mundi

Spem in alium nunquam habui

Tunes for Archbishop Parker's psalter

Tavener, John Magnificat & Nunc dimittis, Collegium Regale

Song for Athene

Tippett, Sir Michael Five Negro Spirituals from A child of our time

Four songs from the British Isles

Tomkins, Thomas When David heard

Trenet, Charles

'La mer'

Vaughan Williams, Ralph Fantasia on Christmas carols

Mass in G minor

O clap your hands

On Wenlock Edge

The Old Hundredth psalm tune

A sea symphony

Ten Blake songs

Toward the unknown region

Vivaldi, Antonio Gloria, RV589

Walton, Sir William Coronation Te Deum

Façade

A song for the Lord Mayor’s table

Warlock, Peter The curlew

Weelkes, Thomas Gloria in excelsis Deo

Weill, Kurt Love life

songs

Wilbye, John Madrigals

Wood, Charles St Mark passion

Wood, Haydn ‘A brown bird singing'

 

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