Learning tracks and tips

Here are links to performances of some of the pieces that we’ll be performing on 24 June. You can also find links on YouTube to individual voice parts for some of the Lauridsen pieces and the madrigals.

Serenade to Music – Ralph Vaughan Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYi4JgQA2I

NocturnesMorten Lauridsen (complete cycle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSy0gzaiVu0

Sa nuit d’ete:  no sample with score

Soneto de la noche:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHReCGTIlfQ&list=RDZHReCGTIlfQ&start_radio=1

Sure on this shining night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Yoz6-l2Rc

Epilogue – Voici le soir: no sample with score

Then the following madrigals:

The Silver Swan – Orlando Gibbons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxh7i8_EGCM

My spirit sang all day – Gerald Finzi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_XGzDewck

As torrents in summer – Edward Elgar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toAbVHCEz5U

The Evening Primrose – Benjamin Britten:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCEr1tIvDe4

Scores

As usual, library copies of all scores will be available for everyone, so you do not need to buy them. However, if you do want to buy your own copies of the scores here are the editions and current prices at Presto Classical.

Serenade to Music – Vocal Score  Publisher Oxford £12.50

Nocturnes – SATB and piano – Choral programme series – Faber Music £4.99

Madrigals and Partsongs  ed: Clifford Bartlett, Oxford Choral Classics £20.25