Sheldon Singers

The Sheldon Singers perform a wide range of sacred and secular music from all periods and traditions. This selection of - mainly English -secular music illustrates what we can offer as the basis of a concert in a variety of settings, indoors and outside. Sometimes, it may form the second half of a concert in which the first half has been devoted to sacred music. Most of this music is sung unaccompanied, but some items would require a piano or keyboard.

Our repertoire of church music includes works by Arcadelt, Bach, Bairstow, Bruckner, Byrd, Elgar, Ford, Gibbons, Handel, Harris, Hoist, Howells, Joubert, Lassus, Mathias, Mendelssohn, Morley, Mozart, Parry, Purcell, Rutter, Schiitz, Stanford, Tallis, Taverner, Vaughan Williams, Walford Davies, Wesley and Wood.

We also sing:

The English madrigalists (16th/17th C):
- Thomas Ford, Thomas Morley, Thomas Campion, Francis Pilkington,John Farmer, John Willbye, John Bennet, and John Dowland.

 

Folk songs - such as Sweet Nightingale, Strawberry Fair, Afton Water, Turtle Dove, Yarmouth Fair -in arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock, Hoist, Percy Grainger and others.


American songs:
Black Sheep American trad, arr. John Rutter B
Deep River
StealAivay
Were you there...?
Bright Canaan


19th and 20th Century:
Come live with me W Stemdale Bennett (1816 -1875)

My Love's an Arbutus - Charles V Stanford (1852 - 1924)
The long day closes - Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
Linden Lea -R Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
Five English Folk Songs (1913) arr R Vaughan Williams
I'm Seventeen come Sunday - Percy Grainger (1882 — 1961)
Brigg Fair trad - Lincolnshire, arr: Percy Grainger
My Spirit sang all day - Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)



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