This summer we have a gorgeous programme lined up of songs relating to the town and the countryside. In fact, it’s so good we’re singing it twice! Our first concert will be at Queen Anne’s School in their lovely School Hall. Queen Anne’s is a great venue with plentiful parking which is really easy to get to from all areas of Reading, and from Henley and Oxfordshire too.

Bob Chilcott’s lively and busy Songs and Cries of London Town will be contrasted with John Rutter’s more pastoral Birthday Madrigals, and there will be plenty more on offer including countryside classics such as Linden Lea and The Lark in the Clear Air and city stunners like A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

Programme (PDF)

• Swimming over London – Chilcott
• Songs & Cries of London Town – Chilcott
• Birthday Madrigals – Rutter
• • It was a Lover and His Lass
  • Draw on Sweet Night
  • Come Live with Me and Be My Love 

  • My True Love Hath My Heart

  • When Daisies Pied

• The Hills – Ireland
• Linden Lea – Vaughan Williams
• A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
• Blue Skies – Berlon arr. Zegree
• The Lark in the Clear Air
• Country Gardens
• The Long Day Closes