REPERTOIRE

For the benefit both of those interested in male voice choirs generally, or on the history of this specific choir, the information below gives a flavour - with examples - of the types of music which the choir sang.

One of the songs, "The Perfect Male Voice Choir" -- which pokes fun at the rivalry between the various sections of the choir -- includes the words:
"We have a comprehensive repertoire; we sing every mood and style. We can be valiant fellows, upright and true, brave and thoroughly worthwhile. But then, at other times, we're not quite so pure - bandits, vagabonds and worse .  .  .". We couldn't have put it better ourselves!

The choir developed MIDI files for most of the items in its repertoire. When played on a suitable digital instrument with simulated human voices, and then recorded onto CDs, these provided a valuable rehearsal resource for its members. The MIDI files could also be used to 'play' the choir's digital piano at rehearsals on those rare occasions when the regular accompanist was unavailable.

In a typical year, the choir performed over 60 different titles, in a wide range of categories - or "genres". Typical examples  -- grouped by genre -- are listed below. NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list but, as stated above, gives a flavour of the types of music which the choir performed.


GENRE TITLE COMPOSER / ARRANGER



Ballads Are You Lonesome Tonight Turk/Handman, arr. Humphreys

Bridge Over Troubled Waters Paul Simon, arr. Simmons

Take Me Home Edwards & Hand



Love Songs Let It Be Me Becaud, arr. Humphreys

Softly As I Leave You de Vita/Shaper, arr. Simmons

The Rose Amanda McBroom, arr. Lyn Harry/Knowles/Mills

The Two Roses Werner



Lullabys Hush My Little Darling Emyr James



Opera Nessun Dorma Puccini, arr. Simmons

Soldier's Chorus (from "Faust") Gounod/Chorley

Speed your Journey (from "Nabucco") Verdi, arr. Northcote



Popular On the sunny side of the street Fields/McHugh, arr. Arch

Yesterday Lennon/McCartney, arr. Simmons

You don't have to say you love me Donaggio, arr. Barratt

You Raise Me Up Lovland/Graham, arr. Simmons



Relective For the Fallen Mike Sammes

Lest We Forget Mike Sammes

Let There Be Peace on Earth Jackson/Miller, arr. Haigh



Religious Ave Maria Caccini, arr. Humphreys

Ave Verum Corpus Mozart, arr. Saar

Panis Angelicus César Franck, arr. Geehl

The Lord's Prayer Albert Hay Malotte



Rhythmic/Syncopated Amen, incorporating "This little light of mine" arr. Simmons

Comrades in Arms George Linley/Adolphe Adam

Rhythm of Life Fields/Coleman, arr. Barnes



Seasonal All in the April evening Tynan/Roberton

Joy to the World Trad., arr. Simmons

Male Voice arrangements of well known Christmas Carols arr. Hayes, Park, Simmons, etc

Mistletoe and Wine Stewart/Paul, arr. Simmons



Songs of the Sea Calm is the sea Guard & Pfiel

Sailing Gavin Sutherland, arr. Simmons

The Song Of The Jolly Roger Chudleigh Candish



Spirituals Go Down Moses arr. Roberton

Steal Away Trad.

When The Saints Go Marching In arr. Denys Hood

Where shall I be? arr. Bryan Davies



Stage and Screen Bring Him Home (from "Les Misérables") Schönberg/Kretzmer/Boublil, arr. Leavitt

Climb Every Mountain (from "The Sound of Music") Rodgers & Hammerstein, arr. Smith

She (from "Notting Hill") Aznavour/Kretzmer, arr. Simmons

Sunrise, Sunset (from "Fiddler on the Roof") Harnick/Bock, arr. Bryan Davies

The Lord Is My Shepherd (from "The Vicar of Dibley") Psalm 23/Howard Goodall

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines Ron Goodwin, arr. Arch

With Cat-like tread (from "The Pirates of Penzance") Gilbert & Sullivan, arr. Rapley



Welsh Hymns Cwm Rhondda Hughes, arr. Jones

Gwahoddiad Hartsough, arr. Tudor Davies

Morte Christe Issac Watts/Emrys Jones

Tydi a Roddaist arr. Arwel Hughes
 
 


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