Wimbledon Chamber Choir
Saturday, 8 July 2006 at 7.30pm at Mitcham Parish Church
and
Saturday, 15 July 2006 at 7.30pm at The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Thornbury
The Flower of the Field
Peter Smith (conductor/organ)
| Flora gave me fairest flowers | John Wilbye (1574-1638) |
| O grief even on the bud | Thomas Morley (1557-1602) |
| Those sweet delightful lilies | Thomas Bateson (1570-1630) |
| Lady when I behold | John Wilbye |
| Amaryllis | Frank Bridge (1879-1941) |
| Geraldine Hine (violin) | |
| Sicut lilium inter spinas | Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) |
| There is no rose | Anon (15th century) |
| Ecce tu pulcher es | Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) and Melchior Vulpius (1570-1615) |
| Chorale prelude: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) |
| Peter Smith (organ) | |
| Five Flower Songs | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) |
| To Daffodils (Robert Herrick) | |
| The Succession of Four Sweet Months (Robert Herrick) | |
| Marsh Flowers (George Crabbe) | |
| The Evening Primrose (John Clare) | |
| The Ballad of Green Broom (anon) | |
Interval |
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| Now is the gentle season | Thomas Morley |
| Those sweet delightful lilies | Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623) |
| Sweet honey sucking bees | John Wilbye |
| Maud | Michael Balfe (1808-1870) |
| Ian Slack (tenor) | |
| The Rose of Tralee | Charles W Glover (1797-1868) arr. Peter Smith |
| My love's an arbutus | arr. Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) |
| Lay a garland | Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856) |
| Like to the damask rose | Edward Elgar (1857-1934) arr. Leslie Woodgate |
| The Last Rose of summer | Thomas Moore (1779-1852) |