SING JOYFULLY

Saturday 9th July 2016

The very first concert by the group that was by Xmas to become the St Giles Consort.
In aid of the Friends of Chalfont St Giles Parish Church

Programme
Alleluia. I heard a voice              Thomas Weelkes (c.1575-1623)
Almighty and everlasting God      Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Ascendit Deus                              Peter Philips (c.1560/1-1628)
O Lord, the maker of all thing          William Mundy (c. 1530-91)
Hosanna to the Son of David                                           Weelkes
Justorum animae                            William Byrd (1542/3-1623)
O clap your hands                                                              Gibbons
Miserere mei, Deus                                                                   Byrd
Laetentur coeli                                                                           Byrd
 ....

The Silver Swan                                                                 Gibbons
Dances from Gloriana                          Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
      Time - Concord - Time and Concord - Country Girls -
      Rustics and Fishermen - Final Dance of Homage
Four Partsongs                   Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856)
      Light of My Soul - Great God of Love - Who shall win my Lady Fair
Lay a Garland
When Evening’s Twilight       John Liptrot Hatton (1808-86)
 
Shenandoah                                    arr. James Erb (1926-2014)