The second concert in our ‘Coalition’ series, and placed its emphasis on the coalition between composer and lyricist, with particular regard to poetry.

Programme (PDF)

• Three Shakespeare songs:
  • Full fathom five (Vaughan-Williams)
  • The cloud capp’d towers (Vaughan-Williams)
  • Over hill, over dale (Vaughan-Williams)
• Go, lovely Rose (Whitacre)
• With a lily in your hand (Whitacre)
• Sleep (Whitacre)
• Lo, the full, final sacrifice (Finzi)
• Cargoes (Balfour Gardiner)
• Three songs of Courage
  •  Valour (Dyson)
  • The Seekers (Dyson)
  • Reveille (Dyson)
• My love is like a red, red rose (Rathbone (arr.))
• Pirates of Penzance, excerpts (Gilbert & Sullivan)