Music for a Summer Evening

Melrose Parish Church, 21 June 2025
Organist: John Kitchen

Programme

To be sung of a Summer Night on the Water — Frederick Delius (1862–1934)

Fair Phyllis I saw — John Farmer (c.1570–c.1601)
Summer is y’coming in — arr. Robert Pearsall (1795–1856)
The Silver Swan — Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)

Greensleeves — arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Brigg Fair — arr. Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
Oh my love is like a red, red rose — arr. Simon Carrington (b. 1942)

My Beloved Spake — Patrick Hadley (1899–1973)

As Torrents in Summer — Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Music when soft voices die — C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918)

Lo, the full final sacrifice — Gerald Finzi (1901–56)

… followed by sparkling wine on the lawn outside the Parish Church.