Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club

Four Pieces for Mixed Voices

Wassail (English traditional)

arr. R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Uns ist ein kindlein heute geboren

harmonised J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Der Engel (female voices)

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)

Das himmlische Orchester

Joseph Haas

Club Choir – Helen Shaw (conductor)
Mary Leonard  (piano)

Winter Words (poems by Thomas Hardy)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

At Day-close in November
Midnight on the Great Western
Wagtail and Baby
The little old table

The Choirmaster’s Burial
Proud songsters
At the railway station, Upwey
Before life and after

Alan Mayall (tenor)   Nicholas Reading (piano)

Two Songs from ‘The Cycle of the Seasons’

Pamela Tomlinson

Autumn (words by Thomas Hood)

Winter (words by Walter De La Mare)

Lyn Parkyns (soprano)   John Bradley (piano)

Logs to burn – a seasonal poem (anon)

read by Richard Shaw

If you would hear the angels sing, traditional carol

arranged by Helen Shaw

Club choir -- Helen Shaw (conductor)
Michael Crowe (hand bell)   Mary Leonard  (piano)   

I  N  T  E  R  V  A  L

Three Shakespearean Songs

Blow, blow, thy winter wind (As You Like It)

T.A. Arne (1710-1778)

When that I was (King Lear, Twelfth Night)

anon

When icicles hang by the wall (Love’s Labour’s Lost)

T.A. Arne

Carl Murray (baritone)   
Michael Crowe (recorder)  John Bradley (piano)

Christ’s Birthday – a cantata for mixed voices

Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978)

1.  In the bleak midwinter
2.  Balulalow
3.  Adam lay ybounden

4.  There came three kings
5.  A maid peerless
6.  Goodday Sir Christemus

Club Choir -- Helen Shaw (conductor)
Nicholas Reading (piano)