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If you have a PC equipped for sound, and you click on the links labelled "Listen" below, you can download and play songs recorded at Liedertafel concerts in Oxford.

Trinity College Chapel December 2007	"A Candlelit Christmas Concert " 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	MP3 Audio
O Magnum Mysterium	Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)	Listen	Listen
A Great and Mighty Wonder	Trad. German, arr. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)	Listen	Listen
Away in a Manger	W.T.Kirkpatrick, arr. Philip Moore	Listen	Listen
Once in Royal David's City	H.J. Gauntlett (1805-1876)	Listen	Listen

August 2007	"Stars of the Summer Night" - New College Chapel Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Ben Alden (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)	MP3 Audio
Hail Smiling Morn	Spofforth	Listen	Listen
Jünglingswonne	F. Schubert	Listen	Listen
Forresters Sound the Cheerful Horn	Bishop	Listen	Listen
I Loved Her	Hatton	Listen	Listen
I Vostri Acuti Dardi	Verdelot	Listen	Listen
Never Weather Beaten Sail	Campian	Listen	Listen
As Torrents in Summer	Edward Elgar	Listen	Listen

July 2006	"Night Music" concert in St. John's College Chapel, Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Ben Alden (tenor), John Bungard (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)	MP3 Audio
Liebe	Brahms's violin concerto slow movement, arr. Saunderson.	Listen	Listen
Oh who will o'er the downs so free	By English composer Robert Pearsall (1795 -1856).	Listen	Listen

March 2005	Passiontide Concert in Wadham College Chapel, Penelope Martin-Smith & Ghislaine Morgan (sopranos), Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass)	MP3 Audio
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.	Listen	Listen

October 2003	Candlelit Concert in Wadham College Chapel, Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Iain McCloud-Jones (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Duncan Saunderson (Bass) and Julian Littlewood (piano)	MP3 Audio
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.	Listen	Listen
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.	Listen	Listen
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.	Listen	Listen

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