A Christmas Collection; Partsongs:

1. Welcome all Wonders SS or SA (Richard Crashaw)
2. The Thatched Shed SS or SA (Clement Paman)
3. Carol for Candlemas SS (anon. 17c)
4. The Running Carol SS (William Drummond)
5. The Echoing Carol SATB – requires 2 soloists per part (Patric Dickinson)
6. Mr. Jones’s Men SATB (John Masefield)
7. Dormi Jesu a 3 (anon. medieval)

All Bells in Paradise:
Corpus Christi Carol (Anonymous)

Before the Paling of the Stars (C. Rosetti)

Benedicite

Benedictus

Canticle of the Sun (John Heath-Stubbs)

Falan-Tiding; Two-Part Christmas Carol

Friends (Jane Jordan)

Invocation (Louis MacNeice)

Jubilate

Lines from Hal Summers – Three Choral Songs:

1. Darkness is Broken
2. Riotous Voices
3. Sing for Ever

Lullaby

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

Missa Brevis

See Amid the Winter’s Snow (Edward Caswall)

Songs of the Heart;
Cycle of Partsongs:

1. O Rhythmic Soul! (Mary Duclaux)
2. A Sleep Song (Sidney Dobell)
3. The Gypsy’s Malison (Charles Lamb)
4. Bien-Aimée (William Cory)

The Innocents (Motets):

1. Innocents’ Song (Charles Causley)
2. Innocents’ Day (Norman Nicholson)
3. Prayer before Birth (Louis MacNeice)

Two Choral Songs:

1. Tell me, gentle wind
2. Earth Music

(Verses taken from Old Pathways – Ronald Fletcher)

Winter

All Bells in Paradise:
Corpus Christi Carol (Anonymous)

Bird Songs:

1. Hoo! Hoo! (anon)
2. Sparrows fighting (W.H. Davies)
3. Cock-Crow (Edward Thomas)
4. The Cuckoo (Vivian Locke Ellis)

Lullaby

Winter

Illuminare Jerusalem  (Medieval)

Lammas Fair;
Operetta in One Act with Piano

Scenes:

1. Introduction and Opening Chorus
2. Madame Zarna and Chorus
3. Molly and Alec
4. Alec and Chorus
5. Dr Garbo
6. Peter, Molly and Chorus

Music’s Empire (Andrew Marvell)

See Amid the Winter’s Snow (Edward Caswall)

Strong Drink;
Opera in Three Acts with Piano Duet (Libretto by David Reynolds)

The Boat Race

The Miller’s Secret
(Libretto by Patric Dickinson after ‘Le Secret de Monsieur Coaille’ from ‘Lettres de mon Moulin’ by Alphonse Daudet)

The Nativity:
Choral Narrative with Tableaux (scenes and choruses)
(Texts from Gospels, Quarles, Traherne & Traditional)

The Old Master;
Operetta in 3 Acts for Equal Voice & Piano

Characters (in order of appearance):

• Auctioneer (Frank Seller)
• Jack Morland – assistant to Mr Polnacchi
• Jane – niece of Lady Smithers
• Lady Smithers – rich patroness of the Arts
• Mr Polnacchi – picture-dealer of Bond St, London
• Sir Zenith Lark – art expert, Director of the National Gallery
• Footman to Lady Smithers
• Chorus (crowd at sale in Act 1; guests at Lady Smithers’ reception in Act 3)

Threadneedle Street;

Comic Opera in 1 Act

‘Tis Almost One’ (Robert Herrick):

1. Evening Hymn
2. Cock-Crow
3. Weigh we the fire
4. Thanksgiving
5. The Bellman

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis

Magnificat (Latin)

1. Magnificat
2. Quia respexit
3. Quia fecit mihi magna
4. Fecit potentiam in brachio suo
5. Deposuit potentes de sede
6. Esurientes implevit bonis
7. Suscepit Israel
8. Gloria
   8a. Sicut erat in principio
   8b. Fantasy on the ‘Gloria’
   8c. Amen

Te Deum; with Exhortations from the Martyrs  (Latin & English)

Dale Folk Partsongs (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Yorkshire Dialect):

1. The Farmer’s Wife to Her White Heifer
2. The Moorland Wife in Leeds
3. The Mother to Her Infant Son

(Alternative 4-clarinet accompaniment available under ‘Woodwind’)

Four Fables  (John Gay):

1. The Man and the Flea
2. The Lady and the Wasp
3. The Council of Horses
4. The Hare and Many Friends

Hymn to Harmony:
Cantata with semi-chorus (William Congreve)

See Amid the Winter’s Snow (Edward Caswall)

The Country Wedding (Partsong)

Four Poems of Mary Coleridge:

1. Thistledown I
2. Nocturne I
3. Thistledown II
4. Nocturne II

Home-Bred Pictures (John Clare):

1. The Grass Eternal
2. Cataract
3. Crow and Ploughman
4. Wild Bees
5. The Poet’s Death

The River God

In Wilde America Cantata
(Early American Poets)

Sir John – A Scene from Village Life
(John Clare abridged from The Cellar Door):

1. A Whale in the Sand
2. Success to the Plough
3. Afternoon

The Soul’s Progress; Four Sacred Pieces:

1. The Pilgrim (George Crabbe)
2. Seek the Lord and in his Ways persever (Thomas Campion
3. Evening Hymn (Sir Thomas Browne)
4. Thou art my Life (Francis Quarles)

Psalm 19