YCS Past Concerts
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Past Concerts
November 2021
MD: Quintin Beer
“O may we soon again renew that song”
| Boyle: | Thou O God art praised in Sion |
| Hagenberg: | The music of stillness |
| Mendelssohn: | Hear my prayer |
| Brahms: | How lovely are thy dwellings |
| Mozart: | Ave verum |
| Quartel: | Wide open spaces |
| Parry: | Blest pair of sirens |
| Vivaldi: | Gloria |
November 2019
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Handel: Messiah
July 2019
MD: Quintin Beer
“Madrigals & Folk”
| Rutter: | It was a lover and his lass |
| Morley: | Now is the month of maying |
| Morley: | My bonny lass she smileth |
| Rutter: | Come live with me |
| Bennet: | All Creatures Now |
| Rutter: | When daisies pied |
| McDowall: | A Fancy of Folksongs |
| arr. Williamson: | The Ashgrove |
| arr. Howard Goodall: | Star of the County Down |
| arr. Vaughan Williams: | Loch Lomond |
| arr. Greg Smith: | The drunken sailor |
| Elgar: | As torrents in summer |
| Sullivan: | The long day closes |
March 2019
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Celebration – 40th Anniversary
| Fauré: | Requiem |
| Brahms: | Geistliches Lied |
| Franck: | Panis Angelicus |
| Fauré: | Cantique de Jean Racine |
| Mendelssohn: | Verleih uns Frieden |
| Handel: | The King shall rejoice |
November 2018
MD: Quintin Beer
“Armistice”
| John Rutter: | The Lord bless you and keep you |
| Gerald Finzi: | Farewell to Arms (Tenor, Organ) |
| Orlando Gibbons: | Drop Drop Slow Tears |
| Campion: | Never Weather-Beaten Sail |
| Douglas Guest: | For the Fallen |
| John Ireland: | Greater love hath no man |
| Maurice Durufle: | In Paradisum from Requiem |
| Charles Villiers Stanford: | Songs of the Sea (Baritone, Chorus, Piano) |
| Graham Ross: | Imperial Elegy |
| Karl Jenkins From The Armed Man: | Agnus Dei, Benedictus |
| Gerald Finzi: | Lo the Full Final Sacrifice |
July 2018
MD: Quintin Beer
“Swinging 50s and 60s”
| James, Ellington etc. Arr. Rice: | I’m Beginning to See the Light |
| Mercer, Ellington etc. Arr. Rice: | Satin Doll |
| Lenon & McCartney, arr. Pickard: | Honey Pie |
| Harburg and Arlen Arr. Shearing: | Over the Rainbow |
| Billy Joel arr. Shearing: | Just the way you are |
| Jobim, English words by Gimbel arr. Rice: | The girl from Ipanema |
| Lennon and McCartney arr. Mobley and Sudell: | Beatles Medley |
| Cole Porter arr Pickard: | Miss Otis Regrets |
| Gilkyson arr. Hare: | The Bare Necessities |
| Lennon and McCartney arr Hill: | With a Little Help from My Friends |
| Mozart arr. Keveren: | Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Fields and Kern arr. Rutter: | The Way You Look Tonight |
| Weiss and Shearing: | Lullaby of Birdland |
| Carter and Hudson arr. Shaw: | Goodnight Sweetheart |
March 2018
MD: Quintin Beer
“Glorious Cathedral Classics”
| Wood: | O thou, the central orb |
| Ireland: | Greater love hath no man |
| Stainer: | God so loved the world |
| S S Wesley: | Blessed be the God and father |
| Stanford: | For lo I raise up |
| Parry: | I was glad when they said unto me |
| Bainton: | And I saw a new heaven |
| Elgar: | Ave verum |
| Stanford: | O for a closer walk with God |
| Stanford: | Nunc dimitis in A |
| Gardiner: | Evening Hymn |
November 2017
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Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Haydn: Insanae et Vanae Curae
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Haydn: Te Deum
July 2017
MD: Quintin Beer
“Saturday Night at the Movies”
| Sondheim & Bernstein | West Side Story medley |
| Sherman | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins) |
| David & Bacharach | Raindrops keep falling on my head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) |
| Sherman | Truly Scrumptious (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) |
| Silvestri | Forrest Gump |
| Sherman | Chim Chim Cher-ee (Mary Poppins) |
| Rodgers & Hammerstein | Sound of Music medley |
| Simon | Mrs Robinson (The Graduate) |
| Bricusse, Newley & Barry | Goldfinger |
| Fields & Coleman | Rhythm of Life (Sweet Charity) |
| Beethoven | Adagio Cantabile |
| Hurwitz | Epilogue (La La Land) |
| Parker | Ghostbusters |
| Gershwin | I Got Rhythm (Girl Crazy) |
| Casey & Jacobs | Grease medley |
March 2017
MD: Quintin Beer
| Bruckner: | Locus Iste |
| Duruflé: | Ubi Caritas |
| Mendelssohn: | I Waited for the Lord |
| Stainer: | Crucifixion |