Sound clips
Songs from across the globe
The following songs give a taste of the wide range of songs sung by the choir.
A traditional Hebrew love song often sung at weddings. Arr: Liz Underhill.
Performed at the Arts Centre, Stamford in 2011.
Most beautiful of maidens
Lift your face to me, lift your face to me
Come, beloved, for you are most fair
And have delighted me
Give me your hand and embrace me –
Strengthen me again and again
a work song from South Africa urging blacks and whites to work side by side.
Performed at the Arts Centre, Stamford in 2011.
Trad Bulgarian arranged by Ivan Tonchev.
Performed at Barn Hill, Stamford in 2010.
Mother I am in love.
Olive eyed and slender as a poplar tree,
throughout the night I dream of her.
Medieval carol set to a French dance tune, arranged by Ali Birns.
Performed at Barn Hill, Stamford in 2010.
Zulu freedom/ church song about Satan!
Traditional English folk song arranged for choir by Chris Rowbury.
Traditional spiritual. This arrangement is from the New Century Hymnal.
A rare chance for the blokes in the choir to sing
together! This is a modern urban song from Georgia about the
Spring.
Spring has come to make us happy and intoxicated.
Like a diamond it is good.
Dessi Stefanova’s arrangement of a Macedonian song
about the freedom fighter Jane Sandanski.
The falcon drinks water from the Vardar.
Oh Jana, white-throated Jana.
O falcon, hero’s bird,
Have you not seen a hero go past?
A hero go past with nine angry wounds?
Nine angry wounds, all from bullets,
and a tenth wound, stabbed with a knife.
Famous New Zealand Maori love song originally written in 1912 as a bid to win the heart of Paraire Henare Tomoana’s beloved, Kuini Ripeka Ryland. Paraire had fallen in love with Kuini but her family refused to give their blessing to a marriage between the two. A lovelorn Paraire composed Pokarekare Ana in which he vowed his eternal love. He declared this passion by singing Pokarekare Ana at Te Poho-o-Rawiri Marae to Kuini in front of her Ngati Porou elders. The family was won over by his convincing performance and granted him their daughter’s hand.
A morning song for the women to start the jobs of the day "The cock crows twice, three times and there is no water. The day has dawned, O mother and there is no water"
Gospel bluegrass song by Doyle Lawson.