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The Castle Singers |
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Repertoire
The following is a selection of the better known songs that we have performed in recent years. In addition, our Christmas concerts feature both traditional carols and secular songs for the season.
Classical Speed Your Journey (G Verdi) The Merry Widow Waltz (F Lehar) Funiculi Funicula (L Denza) Barcarolle (J Offenbach) Zadok the Priest (G Handel) So Deep is the Night (F Chopin) Waltz of the Flowers(P Tchaikovsky} The Long Day Closes (A Sullivan) Be Still My Soul (Sibelius, from "Finlandia") Gentle Breezes (J Strauss)
Gilbert & Sullivan Climbing over rocky mountain (The Pirates of Penzance) When the foeman bares his steel (The Pirates of Penzance) Braid the raven hair (The Mikado) If you want to know who we are (The Mikado) Brightly dawns our Wedding Day (The Mikado) Loudly let the trumpet bray (Iolanthe)
Religious All Things Bright and Beautiful (J Rutter) Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure) God So Loved the World (J Stainer) Ave Verum Corpus (A Mozart) For the Beauty of the Earth (J Rutter) The Lord’s Prayer (Malotte) All in the April Evening (H Roberton) The Lord is my Shepherd (H Goodall) How Lovely are the Messengers (Mendelssohn) Make me a Channel of your Peace (S Temple)
Traditional The Ash Grove Elizabethan Serenade Deep River Shenandoah Come to the Fair Now is the Month of Maying The Silver Swan Danny Boy
Contemporary One Voice (B Manilow) You don’t have to Say You Love Me (P Donnaggio)) Rhythm of Life (D Fields/C Coleman) Music Brings Us Together (R Robinson) Singing in the Rain (Freed & Brown) Let there be Peace on Earth (Miller) We’ll Gather Lilacs (I Novello) Rose of England (I Novello) Bridge over Troubled Water (P Simon) Moonlight Serenade (G Miller) Sleepy Time Bach (J S Bach, arr. B Williams) The Birth of the Blues (R Henderson, arr. C Strommer) I am a small part of the World (Albrecht/Althouse) The Music's Always There (J Rutter) Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury) Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) It don't mean a thing (J Mills/Duke Ellington)
Musicals / Shows / Film Oklahoma (Rogers & Hammerstein) My Heart Will Go On (Horner/Jennings, from “Titanic”) Moon River (H Mancini, from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”) Edelweiss (Rodgers & Hammerstein, from “The Sound of Music”) Over the Rainbow (H Arlen, from “Wizard of Oz”) Sunrise Sunset (J Bock, from “Fiddler on the Room”) Somewhere my Love (M Jarre, from “Dr Zhivago”) Getting to Know You (Rodgers & Hammerstein, from “The King and I”) Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter) Ol' Man River (Hammerstein/Kern from "Show Boat")
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