Thomas Morley
   April Is In My Mistress Face
Thomas Weelkes
  from The Triumphs of Oriana
  No. 17 As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending
John Ireland
  from A Garland For The Queen
  No. 6 The Hills
John Rutter
  from Five Traditional Songs
  No. 4 Golden Slumbers
  No. 5 Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron
Michael Tippett
   Four Songs from the British Isles
Ralph Vaughan Williams
   The Turtle Dove
Claudin de Sermisy
   Tant que vivrai
  Venez, regrets
Jacques Arcadelt
   Margot labourez les vignes
Francis Poulenc
   Chansons Francaises

Our programme contrasts music from Britain and France, pairing 20th century classic arrangements with early repertoire. The programme climaxes with Francis Poulenc's last secular work for choir, setting eight popular French texts, Chansons Francaises alongside one of Vaughan William's folk-song arrangements, Michael Tippett's lively settings of texts from England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland in Four Songs from the British Isles and two movements from John Rutter's Five Traditional Songs which was premiered by London Concord Singers. Also in the programme is John Ireland's contribution to A Garland for The Queen, written for Queen Elizabeth II in emulation of the Elizabethan Triumphs of Oriana from which we hear Thomas Weelkes contribution.