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Swans On Tour Yorkshire 2018!!
Monday 28th May – Carlisle Cathedral (evensong)
Skempton – Preces and Responses
Howells – Magnificat and Nunc ‘Collegium Regale’
Howells – Like as the Hart

Wednesday 30th May – Giggleswick School Chapel
Bainton – And I Saw a New Heaven
Blow – Salvator Mundi
Byrd – Sing Joyfully
Finzi – Lo the Full Final Sacrifice
Gibbons – O Clap your Hands
Harris – Faire is the heaven
Howells – Like as the Hart
Ireland – Greater Love hath No Man
Parsons – Ave Maria
Philips – Ascendit Deus
Purcell – Hear my Prayer, O Lord
Purcell – I was glad when they said unto me
Stanford – Beati Quorum Via
Stanford – Coelos Ascendit Hodie
Tallis – Loquebantur Variis Linguis
Tallis – O Nata Lux de Lumine

Thursday 31st May – lunchtime informal concert with tea and cake

So what do you do on 1st May? Well, climb Ebbor Gorge and sing madrigals of course!

Sunday 29 April 2018
Farmborough Concert as part of the Three Towers Festival.
www.threetowersfestival.org

Our programme:
Hear my Prayer, O Lord (Purcell)
Beati Quorum Via (Stanford)
O Clap your Hands (Gibbons)
Like as the Hart (Howells)
Locquebantur Variis Linguis (Tallis)
Lo the Full Final Sacrifice (Finzi)
Faire is the Heaven (Harris)
Bluebird (Stanford)
Amazing Grace (Todd)
My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land (Elgar)
Shenandoah (Wilberg)
The Mermaid (Whitworth)
Wade in the Water (Hogan)
Blue Moon (Blackwell)
Tea for Two (Gritton)
Encore: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park! (Tom Lehrer)

Saturday 16 December 2017
Bishop’s Palace, Wells
The Swan Singers gathered in the Chapel of the Bishop’s Palace and round the piano in the Long Gallery for festive music as part of the Christmas at the Palace festival.
bishopspalace.org.uk

The German Reformation
Marking the 500^th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 39 Articles, a survey of choral music in Germany from the 16^th to 18^th centuries including works by Calvisius, Praetorius, Luther and J S Bach.