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Every Song a Story
The North Cotswold Chamber Choir with Guest Conductor, Edward Caswell, and Organist, Colin Millington.
We will take you through a songbook of stories from Robert Bridges, Charles D’Orléans and traditional French verse, set to music by Finzi, Debussy and Poulenc, with the additional delight of Cecillia McDowall’s setting of the Shipping Forecast.
Tickets available online or 01608 642350 on in person from Chipping Norton Theatre box office
2 Spring Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5NL
Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm, Saturday: 10am - 1pm
Pierre Passereau, Il est bel et bon
Gerald Finzi From Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
I praise the tender flower
I have loved flowers that fade
My spirit sang all day
Clear and gentle stream
Claude Debussy - Trois Chansons de Charles D’Orléans
Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder!
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
Cecilia McDowall, Shipping Forecast
I. Donegal
II. They that go down to the sea in ships
III. Naming
Francis Poulenc - Huit chansons françaises
Margoton va t’a l’iau
La Belle se sied au pied de la tour
Pilons l’orge
Clic, clac, Dansez sabots
C’est la petit’ fill’ du Prince
La Belle si nous étions
Ah! mon Beau Laboureur
Les tisserands
John Wilbye, Draw on, sweet Night
We will take you through a songbook of stories from Robert Bridges, Charles D’Orléans and traditional French verse, set to music by Finzi, Debussy and Poulenc, with the additional delight of Cecillia McDowall’s setting of the Shipping Forecast.
Tickets available online or 01608 642350 on in person from Chipping Norton Theatre box office
2 Spring Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5NL
Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm, Saturday: 10am - 1pm
Pierre Passereau, Il est bel et bon
Gerald Finzi From Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
I praise the tender flower
I have loved flowers that fade
My spirit sang all day
Clear and gentle stream
Claude Debussy - Trois Chansons de Charles D’Orléans
Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder!
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
Cecilia McDowall, Shipping Forecast
I. Donegal
II. They that go down to the sea in ships
III. Naming
Francis Poulenc - Huit chansons françaises
Margoton va t’a l’iau
La Belle se sied au pied de la tour
Pilons l’orge
Clic, clac, Dansez sabots
C’est la petit’ fill’ du Prince
La Belle si nous étions
Ah! mon Beau Laboureur
Les tisserands
John Wilbye, Draw on, sweet Night
Saturday 13 June
St Mary the Virgin Church, Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 4AW
Tickets £15, 18s and under free
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