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The
Singers
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Selected
Programmes
The
Singers and the Pongos
St
Thomas Singers
conductor
Donald Halliday
with
The
PONGOS
conductor
Richard Pomfret
with
Peter Locke organ
Holy
Trinity Church, Jesmond
Saturday
20 June 1998 7.30 pm
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| Ave
sanctissima Maria Gesualdo |
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Hail,
most gentle Mary, true hope and light, cool fount of refreshment! |
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O
Mary, flower among virgins, pray to Jesus for us. |
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| Gaidar
(Bulgaria) arr. S. Opetenov |
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See
the old bagpiper playing like a lad, while young and old both whirl
around. |
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| Niska
Banja (Serbia) arr. Nick Page |
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Let
us go to the baths of Nis where we shall kiss, kiss, kiss! |
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| On
suuri sun rantas autius (Finland) arr. Matti Hyökki |
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Wide
and desolate is your shore, I ever long to be there |
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To
hear the wild duck through the rushes in the dead of night. |
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I
have watched your grey waters with many a tear. |
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My
young life wept its first sorrow on your shore. |
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| Iltalaulu
arr. Ikka Kuusisto |
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Alone
I sit, alone I sing as eventide draws nigh. |
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The
long day's work at last is done and down to rest I lie. |
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Like
a bird am I, a lonely bird, that sings in woodland lair |
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With
no-one to watch over me, no friend at all to care … |
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| Läksin
minä kesäyönä käymään arr. Einar
Englund |
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One
summer's night I wandered to a green valley, |
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And
stood beneath the trees, where I heard the birds sing |
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As
they flew through the woods |
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And
my heart sought the peace it did not possess … |
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| Julia
Watson, soprano, with Peter Locke, organ |
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| The
nightingale, the organ of delight Thomas Weelkes |
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| The
silver swan Orlando Gibbons |
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| The
Keel Row arr. Kieran Fitzsimons |
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| My
Bonny Lad do. Bobby Shaftoe arr. Kieran Fitzsimons |
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| The
Water of Tyne arr. Michael Neaum |
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| Wade
in the water arr. Kari Ala-Pöllänen |
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| Let
it shine arr. Kari Ala-Pöllänen |
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Alone
I sit as darkness falls, my thoughts flash back and forth |
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Weaving
a fabric of memories. |
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My
heart is heavy, and a tear falls from my eye. |
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| Armahan
kulku Pekka Kostiainen |
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Here
my sweetheart walked on the meadow |
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There
he sat upon the rock |
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The
rock is so much brighter, the heath twice as beautiful. |
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The
grove five times gentler, the woodland six times more flowering. |
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The
whole forest more beautiful, because of the passing-by of my beloved. |
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| Jaakobin
pojat Pekka Kostiainen |
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Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphthali, Gad, |
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Asher,
Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin |
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--these
are all the sons of Jacob. |
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| The
Sailor and Young Nancy arr. Moeran |
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| The
Turtle Dove arr. Vaughan Williams |
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| soloist
Andrew Clarke, bass |
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| I
love my Love arr. Holst |
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| Feel
Good L.C.Tyson & L.Scott, Arr. B.Baker & D.J.Elliot |
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| Turn
around arr. Robert Issacs |
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| I'm
beginning to see the light Duke Ellington arr. Roland Ericson |
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| It's
been a long long time Jules Styne arr. Lars Ahinder |
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| Song
for Athene John Tavener |
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