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"A Candlelit Christmas Concert " Trinity College Chapel December 2009

Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Matthew Vine (tenor),Ben Alden (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)

Love Wakes: C.H.H. Parry (1848-1918)

Liebe : Brahms's violin concerto slow movement, arr. Saunderson.

It came upon a midnight clear: arr. A. Sullivan (1842-1900)

This is the truth: Somerset folksong arr. R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

O Quam  Gloriosum : Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

"A Candlelit Christmas Concert" Trinity College Chapel December 2007

Helen Ashby and Kate Ashby (sopranos), Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)

"The programme had been chosen with great care... complex musical structures were contrasted by the emotive simplicity of modern arrangements of traditional carols. And throughout, the ensemble produced a performance that was deeply satisfying in its attention to detail, allowing the music to speak directly to every listener." Henley Standard

O Magnum Mysterium: Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

A Great and Mighty Wonder: Trad. German, arr. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Away in a Manger : W.T.Kirkpatrick, arr. Philip Moore

Once in Royal David's City : H.J. Gauntlett (1805-1876)

"Stars of the Summer Night" - New College Chapel August 2007

Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Ben Alden (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)

Hail Smiling Morn : Spofforth

Jünglingswonne: F. Schubert

Forresters Sound the Cheerful Horn : Bishop

I Loved Her: Hatton

I Vostri Acuti Dardi : Verdelot

Never Weather Beaten Sail : Campian

As Torrents in Summer: Edward Elgar

"Candlelit Christmas Concert" Trinity College Chapel, December 2006

Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Ben Alden (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)

Remember O Thou Man : Ravenscroft 1590-1633

Ding Dong Ding : Poulenc, arr. Saunderson

"Night Music" St. John's College Chapel, July 2006

Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Ben Alden (tenor), John Bungard (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)

Liebe: Brahms's violin concerto slow movement, arr. Saunderson.

Oh who will o'er the downs so free : By English composer Robert Pearsall (1795 -1856).

Passiontide Concert in Wadham College Chapel, March 2005

O vera, summa, sempiterna Trinitas: By Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

O true, high and eternal Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
O true, high and eternal Unity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Every creature justly praises you, adores you, O blessed Trinity.

"Candlelit Concert" Wadham College Chapel, October 2003

Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Iain McCloud-Jones (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass) and Julian Littlewood (piano)

Barbara Allen: From Variationen über Thema von Robert Schumann for piano arr. D. Saunderson. Clara Schumann dedicated these variations to her husband and gave it to him on his birthday in 1853, the last such celebration before his final breakdown.

Bushes and Briars: Arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams, this song was sung to RVW by a seventy year old labourer at a Vicar's tea party in Essex in 1903. It had an extraordinary effect on RVW - when he heard it he “felt it was something he had known all his life” and from this seed British folksong held great fascination and influence for RVW for the rest of his life.

Linden Lea : RVW's brilliant original composition disguised as a folksong uses a Dorset text that paints a dark cloud of industrial revolution hovering over a pastoral Arcadia.