MIDSUMMER MUSIC: 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: Fair Daffodils
Purcell: Sweeter than roses
Ned Rorem: The Silver Swan
Stanford: My love’s an arbutus
Raymond Yiu: The Earth and Every Common Sight
Our summer programme focuses on the natural world. We celebrate all things pastoral in a delicious series of anthems, partsongs, folk songs, including music by Bernstein, Hadley, Howells, Stanford, and Dowland in his 400th anniversary year. Meanwhile Cecilia McDowall‘s haunting cantata The Ice is Listening, inspired by accounts of frost fairs on the River Thames, reminds us of nature’s fragile balance — a theme amplified by Raymond Yiu‘s rich song cycle The Earth and Every Common Sight.
Soprano: Donna Lennard
Piano and organ: Gavin Roberts
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths
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