The 2020s

November 22nd, 2025

Light in the Darkness

German Romantic works – with organist and pianist Samuel Kimuli.

  • Brahms, Johannes: Warum ist das Licht gegeben
  • Brahms, Johannes: Ach, arme Welt
  • Brahms, Johannes: Geistliches Lied
  • Mendelssohn, Felix: Psalm 43
  • Mendelssohn, Felix: Verleih uns Frieden
  • Karg-Elert, Sigfrid: Ich dank dir, lieber Herre (organ solo)
  • Reger, Max: Unser lieben Frauen Traum
  • Schubert, Franz: Psalm 23
  • Rheinberger, Josef: Abendlied
  • Karg-Elert, Sigfrid: Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele (organ solo)
  • Bruckner, Anton: Ave Maria
  • Bruckner, Anton: Christus factus est
  • Bruckner, Anton: Os Justi
  • Karg-Elert, Sigfrid: Nun danket alle Gott (organ solo)
  • Rheinberger, Josef: Mass in Eb Maj

July 5, 2025

French & American Part-Songs

  • Barber, Samuel: Twelfth Night
  • Barber, Samuel: To be sung on the water
  • Ravel, Maurice: Trois Chansons Op.69
    • Nicolette
    • Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
    • Ronde
  • Bernstein, Leonard: The Lark – French Choruses
    • Spring Song
    • Court Song
    • Soldier’s Song
  • Saint-Saëns, Camille: Deux Chansons Op. 68
    • Calme des Nuits
    • Les Fleurs et les Arbres
  • Barber, Samuel: Agnus Dei (Adagio) – Organist : Samuel Kimuli
  • Debussy, Claude: Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans
    • Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder
    • Quant j’ai ouy la tabourin
    • Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
  • Whitacre, Eric: Sleep
  • Gounod, Charles: A Cécile (Solo with piano. Tenor soloist: Stephen Anthony Brown, Accompanist : Samuel Kimuli)
  • Gounod, Charles: Passiflora (Solo with piano. Tenor soloist: Stephen Anthony Brown, Accompanist : Samuel Kimuli)
  • Barber, Samuel: Sure on this Shining Night (Solo with piano. Tenor soloist: Stephen Anthony Brown, Accompanist : Samuel Kimuli)
  • Poulenc, Francis: Figure Humaine (Selected movements)
    • De tous les printemps du monde
    • En chantant, les servantes s’élancent
    • Aussi bas que le silence
    • Toi ma patiente

March 29, 2025

The Creation – Joseph Haydn

We performed with the Rosenau Sinfonia playing an arrangement by Stephen Anthony Brown for small orchestra and piano. Our soloists were soprano Zita Syme, tenor Alex Aldren and baritone Pauls Putnins.

December 14, 2024

Carols by Candlelight

  • Deck the Hall arr. David Willcocks
  • O Come, All Ye Faithfull arr. David Willcocks
  • The Infant King arr. David Willcocks
  • The Holly and the Ivy arr. David Willcocks
  • As With Gladness Men of Old arr. David Willcocks
  • BYMT Junior Singers performed “Winter Songs” by Alexander L’Estrange & Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
    • Hibernation
    • Reality Check
    • Presence
  • The Angel Gabriel arr. Michael Higgins
  • Silent Night arr. Michael Higgins
  • Sussex Carol arr. David Willcocks
  • Once in Royal David’s City HJ Gauntlett arr. A. H. Mann
  • The Truth Sent From Above arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear arr. Arthur Sullivan
  • Ding Dong Merrily on High arr. David Willcocks
  • Two Folk Songs arr. Malcolm Sargent
    • Star in the south
    • Zither Carol
  • BYMT Junior Singers performed:
    • A Christmas Round – Alan Simmons
    • Starlight, Starbright – Pete Seeger arr. Susan Brumfield
    • Thirty-Two Feet, Eight Little Tails – John Redmond, James Cavanaugh & Frank Weldon, arr. Alan Billingsley
  • Candlelight Carol – BYMT and Allegri Singers together – John Rutter
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas – Bob Chilcott
  • Hark the Herald Angels Sing – Felix Mendelssohn arr. David Willcocks
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas arr. Arthur Warrell

Performed with Iestyn Evans (piano and organ) and The BYMT Junior Singers conducted by Stephanie Seenie, accompanied by Daniel Beach.

November 16, 2024

Stanford’s Legacy

  • Stanford, Charles Villiers: For Lo, I raise up
  • Benjamin, Arthur: The Mystery 
  • Benjamin, Arthur: He is the Lonely Greatness
  • Somervell, Arthur: Music, When Soft Voices Die
  • Bliss, Arthur: Prayer of St Francis of Assisi
  • Butterworth, George: We get up in the morn
  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Sea Drift
  • Host, Gustav: Nunc Dimittis
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Valiant for truth
  • Howells, Herbert: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
  • Clarke, Rebecca: Music, When Soft Voices Die
  • Moeran, Ernest: Under the greenwood tree
  • Moeran, Ernest: To Daffodils
  • Ireland, John: Greater Love Hath No Man
  • Bridge, Frank: The Bee
  • Bridge, Frank: Autumn
  • Bainton, Edgar: And I saw a new heaven
  • Stanford, Charles Villiers: The Blue Bird

Performed with Andrew Macmillan (piano and organ)

July 6, 2024

The Infinite Shining Heavens

  • Elgar, Edward: Feasting I watch
  • Guerrero, Francisco: Duo Seraphim clamabant
  • Dove, Jonathan: Seek him that maketh the seven stars
  • Saint Saëns, Camille: Calme des nuits
  • Jackson, Gabriel: Creator of the stars of night 
  • Ešenvalds, Ēriks: Stars 
  • Gjeilo, Ola: Northern lights 
  • Page, Henry George: Earth, let not thy envious shade 
  • Vaughan-Williams, Ralph: The infinite shining heavens (arr. Paul Jeanes)
  • Harvey, Jonathan: The Angels 
  • Joseph, Jeffrey: Full Moon and Little Frieda 
  • McDowall, Cecilia: O Oriens 
  • McDowall, Cecilia: Aurea luce 
  • LaVoy, Thomas: Orbits (from Songs of the Questioner) 
  • Rusby, Kate: Underneath the stars (arr. Jim Clements)
  • Elgar, Edward: Stars of the summer night (Spanish Serenade) 

Performed with George Inscoe (piano and organ).

May 18, 2024

Rachmaninoff’s Vespers

  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Vespers (All-Night Vigil)

Feb 24, 2024

Renaissance to Baroque

  • Gabrieli, Giovanni: Jubilate Deo
  • Anerio, Felice: Christus Factus Est
  • Gabrieli, Giovanni: Canzona a 5 performed by Odeon Brass Ensemble
  • Gesualdo, Carlo: O Vos Omnes
  • Monteverdi, Claudio: Cantate Domino
  • Monteverdi, Claudio: Christe Adoramus Te
  • Monteverdi, Claudio: Stracciami pur il core performed by Odeon Brass Ensemble
  • de Lassus, Orlande: Timor et Tremor
  • de Victoria, Tomás Luis: O Quam Gloriosum
  • da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi: Exsultate Deo
  • Schütz, Heinrich: Jauchzet dem Herrn
  • Schütz, Heinrich: Selig sind die toten
  • Locke, Matthew: Five-part Things performed by Odeon Brass Ensemble
  • Blow, John: Salvator Mundi
  • Purcell, Henry: Funeral Sentences

Performed together with the Odeon Brass Ensemble, and Paul Jeanes (organ and drum).

Dec 9, 2023

A Boy was Born

  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Fantasia on Christmas carols with Giles Davies, baritone and Andrew McMillan, organ.
  • Howells, Herbert: A Spotless Rose with Giles Davies, Baritone
  • Britten, Benjamin: A Hymn to the Virgin  
  • Finzi, Gerald: In terra pax with Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, soprano, Giles Davies, Baritone and Andrew McMillan, organ.
  • Britten, Benjamin: A Boy Was Born (complete) We performed the complete cantata with Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, soprano

We performed a wonderful and festive programme of Christmas music. Benjamin Britten’s – A Boy was Born, Gerald Finzi’s In Terra Pax and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s – Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

Jul 8, 2023

Summer Songs & Madrigals

On a beautiful summer evening we gave a concert featuring John Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals, George Shearing’s Songs & Sonnets and some wonderful madrigals by Bennet, Gibbons, Morley, Ramsey and more. For the Rutter and the Shearing items we were accompanied by Andrew Macmillan (piano) and Adam Wynter (bass).

  • Bennet, John: All Creatures Now
  • Farmer, John: Fair nymphs, I heard one telling
  • Farmer, John: Fair Phyllis
  • Morley, Thomas: April is in my mistress face
  • Morley, Thomas: Fyer, Fyer!
  • Morley, Thomas: Sing we and chant it
  • Ramsey, Robert: Sleep, Fleshly Birth
  • Rutter, John: Birthday Madrigals 1. It was a lover and his lass 2. Draw on, sweet night 3. Come live with me 4. My true love hath my heart 5. When daisies pied
  • Shearing, George: Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare. Seven Shakespeare settings 1. Live with me and be my love 2. When daffodils begin to peer 3. It was a lover and his lass 4. Spring 5. Who is Silvia? 6. Fie on sinful fantasy 7. Hey, ho, the wind and the rain
  • Tomkins, Thomas: Music divine
  • Weelkes, Thomas: The Andalusian Merchant
  • Weelkes, Thomas: Thule, the period of cosmography) 
  • Wilbye, John: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
  • Wilbye, John: Lady, when I behold

May 20, 2023

Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle

We were delighted to be joined by soloists Zita Syme (soprano), Arlene Belli (mezzo), Robin Bailey (tenor) & Laurence Gillians (baritone).

  • Rossini, Gioacchino: Petite messe solennelle – a complete performance with piano and harmonium, and soloists Zita Syme (soprano), Arlene Belli (mezzo), Robin Bailey (tenor) & Laurence Gillians (baritone).

Feb 25, 2023

Handel’s Messiah

It was a very special performance of Messiah, performed with the Rosenau Sinfonia. A truly uplifting antidote to any winter blues! We were delighted to be joined by soloists Zita Syme (soprano), Arlene Belli (mezzo), Greg Tassell (tenor) & Laurence Gillians (baritone).

  • Handel, George Frideric: Messiah with the Rosenau Sinfonia and soloists Zita Syme (soprano), Arlene Belli (mezzo), Greg Tassell (tenor) & Laurence Gillians (baritone).

Nov 19, 2022

A Vision of Aeroplanes

In celebration of Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, we performed a wonderful programme of his works, familiar and new to many, including his Five English Folk Songs, and the exciting A Vision of Aeroplanes. We also performed the beautiful Missa brevis by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály. We were joined by organist Tim Wakerell for this dramatic and exciting evening of music by composers who drew so much from the folk traditions of their countries.

  • Kodály, Zoltan: Missa Brevis
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph: A Vision of Aeroplanes
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Five English Folk Songs
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Lord, thou hast been our refuge

Jul 9, 2022

King Arthur

On 9th July we performed Purcell’s King Arthur. We were very pleased to be joined again by our friends, the Rosenau Sinfonia, harpsichordist Paul Jeanes and soprano Becky Ryland-Jones.

  • Purcell, Henry: King Arthur – A complete performance of this ‘English Pageant’, words by John Dryden

May 21, 2022

The Peaceable Kingdom

For our May concert we performed a fantastic American programme including Bright Mass with Canons by Nico Muhly, Lux aeterna by Morten Lauridsen, and The Peaceable Kingdom by Randall Thompson.

  • Lauridsen, Morten: Lux Aeterna
  • Muhly, Nico: Bright Mass with Canons
  • Thompson, Randall: The Peaceable Kingdom

Mar 5, 2022

Northern Lights

We had hoped to be welcoming you for a fantastic programme of works by contemporary, highly celebrated composers from Finland, Estonia and Norway. The programme was to have included the dramatic and stirring Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi‘s wonderfully characterful and quirky Four Shakespeare Songs, and the haunting and achingly beautiful Passion and Resurrection by Ēriks Ešenvalds. We are hoping to come back to these pieces in the future, sadly cancelled due to a Coronavirus outbreak.

  • Ešenvalds, Ēriks: Passion and Resurrection
  • Gjeilo, Ola: Sunrise Mass
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 1. Come Away Death
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 2 Lullaby
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 3 Double, double, toil and trouble
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 4 Full fathom five

Nov 27, 2021

Fauré Requiem

We were delighted to return to performance with the Fauré Requiem, Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten and Otčenáš (Our father) by Leoš Janáček. Accompanied by harp, strings and organ, and with tenor soloist Greg Tassell, this was a most enjoyable evening and we thank all who joined us.

  • Britten, Benjamin: Rejoice in the Lamb
  • Fauré, Gabriel: Requiem
  • Janáček, Leoš: Otčenáš (Our father)

Mar 28, 2020

Northern Lights – Choral Music by Baltic Composers

This programme of works by Baltic and Russian composers, which was to have included Arvo Pärt’s “Berliner Messe”, and “Passion and Resurrection” by Ēriks Ešenvalds, fell victim to the Coronavirus epidemic and had to be cancelled.

  • Ešenvalds, Ēriks: Passion and Resurrection
  • Ešenvalds, Ēriks: Stars
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 1. Come Away Death
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 2 Lullaby
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 3 Double, double, toil and trouble
  • Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko: Four Shakespeare Songs No. 4 Full fathom five
  • Pärt, Arvo: Berliner Messe