Choral music is not just written for liturgy in sacred spaces. This programme explores the varied secular choral legacy of Britain from the late nineteenth century to the present day, by way of Elgar, Moeran, Vaughan Williams and James MacMillan, alongside a new site-specific work commissioned for this concert from Nicholas Brown (one of the founders of Musica Beata).

Britten Choral dances from Gloriana
 Time
 Concord
 Time and Concord
 Country girls
 Rustics and fishermen
 Final dance of homage

Elgar Three choral songs
 O happy eyes
 Love
 My love dwelt in a northern land

Moeran Songs of springtime
 Under the greenwood tree
 The river-god’s song
 Spring, the sweet spring
 Love is a sickness
 Sigh no more, ladies
 Good wine
 To daffodils

Stanford Three partsongs

 Pheobe
 My love’s an arbutus
 Peace come away

Elgar  There is sweet music

Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare songs
 Full fathom five
 The cloud-capp’d towers
 Over hill, over dale