The spring 2007 concert was the second in our ‘Fairest Isle’ series, and featured secular music from English composers through the ages.

Programme (PDF)

• Five English folk-songs – The dark-eyed sailor (Vaughan-Williams)
• Five English folk-songs – The springtime of the year (Vaughan-
• illiams)
• Five English folk-songs – Just as the tide was flowing (Vaughan-
• illiams)
• Five English folk-songs – The lover’s ghost (Vaughan-Williams)
• Five English folk-songs – Wassail song (Vaughan-Williams)
• Lay a garland (Pearsall)
• My Spirit sang all day (Finzi)
• My love dwelt in a northern land (Elgar)
• The Bluebird (Stanford)
• Full fathom five (Wood)
• Greensleeves (Vaughan-Williams)
• The long day closes (Sullivan)
• Birthday madrigals – It was a lover and his lass (Rutter)
• All creatures now (Bennett)
• April is in my mistress’ face (Morley)
• Mother, I will have a husband (Vautor)
• The silver swan (Gibbons)
• Thule, the period of cosmography and the Andalusian merchant
• Weelkes)
• Early one morning (Wilcocks (arr.))
• O waly waly (Rutter (arr.))
• I love my love (Holst (arr.))
• The turtle dove (Vaughan-Williams (arr.))
• The keel row (Byrt (arr.))
• She moves through the fair (Runswick (arr.))
• Scarborough fair (Runswick (arr.))
• Dashing away with the smoothing iron (Rutter (arr.))