Make Our Garden Grow

Bernstein: Make our garden grow
Dowland: Weep no more, sad fountains
Dowland: The lowest trees have tops
Elgar: Give unto the Lord
Hadley: My Beloved Spake
Holst: Turn back, O man
Howells: Like as the hart
Cecilia McDowall: The Ice is Listening
Parry: To Daffodils
Purcell: Sweeter than roses
Ned Rorem: The Silver Swan
Stamford: My loves an arbutus
Raymond Yiu: The Earth and Every Common SightOur summer programme focuses on the natural world. We celebrate all things pastoral in a delicious series of anthems, partsongs, folk songs and madrigals, including music by Bernstein, Hadley, Howells, Stanford and many others. Meanwhile Cecilia McDowalls haunting cantata The Ice is Listening , inspired by accounts of frost fairs on the River Thames, reminds us of natures fragile balance a theme amplified by Raymond Yius rich song cycle The Earth and Every Common Sight .Soprano: Donna LennardPiano and organ: Gavin Roberts
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths