Sang my first concert with Cantanti Camerati choir @ Sunbury Parish Church in Sunbury-on-Thames last night. Conducted by the eccentric yet redoubtable Geoffrey Bowyer, the Spring Concert performance went a good way to raising the £800 needed to complete the restoration of organ pipes damaged by water over recent years. The organ is surely one of the best in the west of London and it was shown off well by Geoffrey in Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine and Frank's Panis Angelicus. The unusual programme also included a selection of motets, madrigals, airs, partsongs a glee and solos from the versatile choir members:
William Byrd - Non Nobis Domine
William Byrd - Ave Verum Corpus
Alessandro Scarlati - Exsultate Deo
Thomas Weelkes - In pride of May
John Dowland - Come again! Sweet love doth now invite
Ellis Gibbons - Long Live fair Oriana
Roger Quilter - The pretty birds do sing
arr Arthur Warrell - Roving in the dew
Charles Wood - Music when soft voices die
Sir Edward Elgar - As torrents in summer
Thomas Arne - Which is the properest day to sing
Anton Bruckner - Locus Iste
Franz Schubert - Hail to the Chief
Franz Schubert - The Lord is my Shepherd
Peter Rose arr Hugh Frey - Deep purple
Emile Waldteufel - The scent of roses
Sir Charles Stanford - Diaphenia
Solos:
Samuel Liddle - Abide with me
Sir Edward German - She had a letter from her love
Mozart - Bassoon Concert (Andante, Adagio)
Robert Schumann - Du Ring an meinem Finger
Roger Quilter - O mistress mine
Franz Lehar - Vilia (from The Merry Widow)
