The Singers

Selected Programmes

The St Thomas Singers
conductor Donald Halliday

Shirley Britton reader
Martin Charlton organ

Saturday 20 April 1996

The Chapel of St Thomas the Martyr

Music for an April Evening

Tu es Petrus - Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Reading: Ballad of the Bread Man - Charles Causley
Two short anthems - Philip Radcliffe (1905 - 1986)
• O bone Jesu
• Fecisti nos
Reading: The Man born to be King - Dorothy L. Sayers
Two sacred pieces - Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590 - c. 1633)
• O Jesu meek
• Ah, helpless wretch
Reading: The Donkey - G. K. Chesterton
Pueri Hebraeorum - Tomas Luis da Victoria (c. 1548 - 1611)
Reading: The Telegram (from Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Ave verum corpus - Mozart
Reading: Chae returns home (from Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
In monte Olivetti - Marc Antonio Ingegneri (1545 - 1592)
Reading: Chae's last meeting with Ewan (from Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
All in the April evening - Hugh Roberton (1874 - 1952)
O Rex Gloriae - Luca Marenzio (c. 1553 - 1599)
Reading: Pain - Anon.
Two Anthems - Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810 - 1876)
• O god whose nature and property
• Blessed be the God

INTERVAL

Nun fanget an! - Hans Leo Hassler (1564 - 1612)
Reading: Home - thoughts from abroad - Robert Browning
Matona, mia cara - Orlando Lassus (1532 - 1594)
Sing we and chaunt it - Thomas Morley (1557 - 1603)
Reading: Mole discovers the Spring (from The Wind in the Willows) - Kenneth Graham
It was a lover and his lass - Thomas Morley
April is in my Mistress' face - Thomas Morley
Reading: I saw a Jolly Hunter - Charles Causley
No! No! Nigella - R L de Pearsall (1795 - 1856)
Lay a garland - R L de Pearsall
Reading: from The Diary of Anne Frank
Wohl kommt der Mai - Orlando Lassus (1532 - 1594)
Reading: Daffodils - William Wordsmith
Three North Country Songs - arr. Philip Wilby (1983)
• The Farmer's Boy
• Marianne
• Byker Hill