Nantwich Singers Repertoire History

A Allegri Miserere Anerio Christus factus est

B Bach Jesu Meine Freude Komm Jesu komm (arr Rathbone) Air on a G string (arr Williams) Gavotte for Bach Bouree for Bach O little one sweet Ah Lord when my last end is come Barber Mary Hynes The Coolin Bennett Richard R. Nonsense A Good-night Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Five Flower Songs Ceremony of Carols Choral dances from Gloriana Byrd Miserere Mei Ave verum corpus Laetentor coeli Though Amaryllis Sing joyfully Mass for 5 voices Lord make your servant Elizabeth Justorum animae Bairstow Lamentations Let all mortal flesh Bruckner Christus factus est Batten Lord we beseech thee When the Lord turned again O sing joyfully Bennet All creatures now Weep o mine eyes Sterndale Bennett Come live with me Barber Adagio arr. for choir Batten O Sing Joyfully Berlioz Shepherds’ farewell Bernstein The Chichester Psalms Beamish In the stillness Brahms Marienlieder

C Chilcott Were you there? God so loved the world Londonderry Air Irish blessing Be thou my vision The heart in waiting St John Passion Cashmore arr My love is like a red rose The lark in the clear air Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noel Carter Two for the price of one Benedicite Casals O vos omnes Campion Never weather-beaten sail Coates arr Boden Dambusters March Chilcott A Little Jazz Mass

D Dvorak Mass in D Durufle Dowland “A Booke of Songes or Ayres of fowre partes” (Come heavy sleep, Can she excuse my wrongs, weep you no more) De Severac Tantum Ego

E Elgar The shower As torrents in summer My love dwelt in a northern land From the Bavarian Highlands

F Faure Cantique de Jean Racine Requiem Farrant Lord for thy tender mercies Call to Remembrance Franck Panis angelicus Flanders&Swann The slow train Finzi My spirit sang all day I praise the tender flower Haste on my joys! Clear and Gentle Stream Fraser-Simpson Christopher Robin is saying his prayers

G Gesualdo O Vos Omnes Caligaverunt oculi mei

Gibbons Hosanna to the Son of David Drop drop O Lord in thy wrath O clap your hands

Gabrieli Exaudi Domine O che felice giorno Jubilate Deo Gibbons The silver swan Hosanna to the Son of David Gjeilo Ubi Caritas Goss O Saviour of the World Guerrero Canite tuba Pastores loquebantur Ave virgo Grieg Ave maris stella

H Handel Dixit Dominus Zadok the priest Harris Three Shakespeare Songs Holy is the True Light Bring us, O Lord God Haydn Nelson Mass Howells Requiem Like as the hart Take him, Earth, for cherishing Hayward arr “Lennon and McCartney on Love” Hunter Five Nursery Rhymes Hughes If we shadows have offended Hatton Over hill over dale Holst Swansea Town

I Ireland The hills

J John IV Portugal Crux fidelis Gordon Jacob arr. The ash grove

K Kodaly Missa Brevis

L Lassus Timor et tremor Matona mia cara Lotti Crucifixus Le Jeune Revoici venir le printemps

Lauridsen Lux Aeterna Veni sancte spiritus O magnum mysterium Leighton Solus ad victimam

M Martin Where the Bee Sucks McDowell A Fancy of Folksongs Monteverdi Christus adoramus te Beatus Vir Vespers of 1610 Christmas Vespers Cantate domino Morales Ecce sic benedicetur O sacrum convivium Morley Sing we and chant it Now is the month Hard by a crystal fountain Moeran Songs of springtime (Under the greenwood tree, To daffodils, Spring the sweet spring) Macmillan It is finished A New Song Mendelssohn Die Nachtigall Jagdlied

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P Palestrina Missa & motet “Tu es Petrus” Ego sum panis vivus Super flumina Babylonis Sicut cervus Exsultate Deo Parry Music where soft voices die There rolls the deep Songs of farewell I was glad Pearsall Lay a garland In dulce jubilo Sir Patrick Spens Poulenc Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence Salve regina

Purcell Remember not Rejoice in the Lord Dido and Aeneas Q

R Rutter A Sprig of Thyme When Icicles Hang Requiem Five Childhood Lyrics Birthday Madrigals Three Shakespeare Songs (It was a lover, Blow blow, When daisies pied) Rogers &H’stein South Pacific

S Sanders The Reproaches Stainer God so loved the world Schubert Mass in G major Schutz Heu mihi Domine Cantate Domino Sullivan Echoes The long day closes HMS Pinafore Pirates of Penzance Sweelinck Hodie Christus natus est Shepherd In manus tuas Stevens The cloud-cap’t towers Stanford Te deum The Bluebird Sterndale Bennett Come live with me Stone Dance to your daddy

T Tallis O nata lux If ye love me Tomkins Too much I once lamented See, see the shepherds’ queen When David Heard Taverner (1944) Mother and Child Song for Athene Tippett Three Spirituals from A Child of our Time

U Ungar Ashokan farewell

V Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Three Elizabethan Songs (O mistress mine, the willow song,……) Fantasia on Christmas Carols Three Shakespearian Songs (Full fathom five, The cloud cap’t Ttowers, Over hill over dale) Silence and Music All people that on earth O taste and see The Turtle dove Victoria Pueri Hebraeorum O Domine Jesu Christe O magnum mysterium O quam gloriosum Vivaldi Magnificat

W Walton Cantico del Sole Weelkes Hosanna to the Son of David As Vesta was Hark all ye lovely saints Whittaker arr. Bobby Shaftoe Willcocks arr. Drunken sailor Wilbye Draw on sweet night Wood Full fathom five White Christe qui lux es et dies Walton Drop drop slow tears Eric Whitacre Water Night With a lily in your hand The seal lullaby Lux Aurumque Wesley Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace

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Christmas Music not included extensively.