Songs by Richard Rodney Bennett, Benjamin Britten, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Flanders & Swann, Edvard Grieg, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Ivor Novello, Hubert Parry, Graham Peel, John Pickard, Edmund Rubbra, Camille Saint-Säens, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius, Arthur Somervell, Peter Warlock, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Duets and ensemble pieces by Liza Lehmann and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Cycles and sets: | ||
Benjamin Britten | Songs and Proverbs of William Blake | |
George Butterworth | Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad | |
Gerald Finzi | Let us Garlands Bring | |
To a Poet | ||
Herbert Howells | Peacock Pie (set I; 1919) | |
John Ireland | Three Poems of Thomas Hardy | |
Kenneth Leighton | Five Shakespeare Songs | |
Edmund Rubbra | Two Sonnets of William Alabaster | |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Five Mystical Songs | |
Songs of Travel | ||
Four Last Songs | ||
Three Poems of Walt Whitman |
Themed Programmes:
- ‘An evening of Flanders & Swann’
- ‘The Articled Pupils of Herbert Brewer: Songs by Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells and Ivor Novello’
- Peter Warlock Drinking Songs
- Song in a Strange Land (with organ, violin and cello, including Howells's extraordinary By the Waters of Babylon)
oratorical works performed in concert to date (incomplete list)
J.S. Bach | Magnificat | |
St. John Passion (pilate/arias) | ||
Cantata : Schwingt freudig euch empor (BWV 36) | ||
Cantata : Ich will den Kreuzstab Gerne Tragen (BWV 56) | ||
Cantata : Num kimm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 61) | ||
Cantata : Ich habe genug (BWV 82) | ||
Cantata : Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (BWV 147) | ||
Maurice Durufle | Requiem | |
George Dyson | The Canterbury Pilgrims | |
Quo Vadis | ||
Edward Elgar | The Apostles (Judas) | |
Gabriel Faure | Requiem | |
Gerald Finzi | In Terra Pax | |
Ivor Gurney | Four orchestrated songs | |
G.F. Handel | Messiah; Solomon | |
William Harris | The Hound of Heaven | |
W.A. Mozart | Requiem | |
Carl Orff | Carmina Burana (both baritone and tenor soli) | |
Hubert Parry | Hear my words, ye people | |
Franz Schubert | Masses in G and F | |
John Stainer | Crucifixion | |
Charles Stanford | Songs of the Fleet | |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | A Sea Symphony | |
Fantasia on Christmas Carols | ||
Five Mystical Songs (orchestral and chamber versions) | ||
Songs of Travel (orchestral version) | ||
Charles Wood | St. Mark Passion (Jesus) |