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Three little Maids from School
Three little Maids from School (G & S)
Twyford Singers conducted by Derek Beck

TWYFORD SINGERS' REPERTOIRE SINCE 1995:

BACH Sleepers Wake! Cantata 140 & HANDEL Coronation Anthems
'St.Valentine's Concert' including COLE PORTER ballads, SEIBER folk-songs & FAURE Cantique de Jean Racine
BRITTEN St. Nicolas Cantata (at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton)
'Two by Two' including HOROVITZ Captain Noah, spirituals and part-songs
HANDEL Messiah (Twyford Singers' 25th Anniversary concert)
'An Evening with Gilbert & Sullivan' including a complete performance of Trial by Jury
'An Italian Evening' including sacred works and concerti by PERGOLESI (Magnificat), SAMMARTINI & VIVALDI (Gloria in D, Credo)
'A Night at the Opera' choruses, ensembles and arias from MOZART to LEHAR
ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle
HOROVITZ Horrortorio with MICHAEL HURD's Hip-Hip Horatio
RUTTER Magnificat and Requiem
'Down Memory Lane' arrangements by Derek Beck of songs from COWARD, KERN, NOVELLO and THE BEATLES
MOZART Missa Brevis K.192 and Solemn Vespers K.339
PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
ELGAR From the Bavarian Highlands
LLOYD-WEBBER Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
HAYDN Stabat Mater
Arr:BECK Five Spirituals
L'ESTRANGE Zimbe (with Viva Voces and pupils of Twyford School and King Edward VI School, conducted by David Hall)
FAURE Requiem and Pavane
VIVALDI Gloria
'A Night at the Opera' choruses, ensembles and arias from BIZET to LLOYD-WEBBER
PURCELL A selection of works including Queen Mary's funeral music and Come, ye sons of art.
'Down Memory Lane' arrangements by Derek Beck of songs from COWARD, KERN, NOVELLO and GERSHWIN
'We Will Remember' STAINER Crucifixion, ELGAR For the Fallen and WILLIAMSON Procession of Palms
'All at Sea' HOROVITZ Captain Noah and his floating zoo, MICHAEL HURD's Hip-Hip Horatio and part-songs arr. BECK
'Handel and Bach' HANDEL O Praise the Lord with one Consent and Ode to St.Cecelia's Day and BACH Ich habe genug.
'Chichester Psalms' BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms and anthems by ELGAR, STAINER, STANFORD, WESLEY and WOOD.
'Songs and Sonnets' RUTTER The Sprig of Thyme and SHEARING Songs and Sonnets by Shakespeare.

Winchester & County Music Festival in Winchester Cathedral

Each year the Singers have also performed with the Hampshire Choral Festival (formerly the Winchester & County Music Festival) in either Romsey Abbey or Winchester Cathedral, singing the following major works:

BACH St Matthew Passion KODALY Psalmus Hungaricus
BIZET Te Deum LAMBERT Rio Grande
DVORAK Stabat Mater MENDELSSOHN Elijah

Hymn of Praise

St.Paul

ELGAR Dream of Gerontius

Music Makers

Spirit of England

MOZART Requiem
ORFF Carmina Burana
FAURE Requiem POULENC Gloria
GOUNOD St Cecilia Mass PUCCINI Messa di Gloria
HANDEL Ode for St.Cecilia's Day

Samson

Messiah

ROSSINI Stabat Mater
STANFORD Songs of the Fleet
HAYDN 'Nelson' Mass

The Creation

V. WILLIAMS 'Sea' Symphony

Dona Nobis Pacem

JENKINS The Armed Man VERDI Requiem