Under the Greenwood Tree

An evening of arboreal delights, including Vaughan Williams: In Windsor Forest, choruses from the opera based on The Merry Wives of Windsor:

1. The Conspiracy (Sigh no more, ladies)

2. Drinking song

3. Falstaff and the Fairies

4. Wedding chorus

5. Epilogue,

and Linden Lea.

Plus madrigals, part songs and solo items on trees by:

Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1500), Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins, Jan Sweelinck, Handel, Haydn, Robert Lucas Pearsall, John Liptrot Hatton, Fanny Hensel [Mendelssohn], Camille Saint Saens, C. V. Stanford, W. S. Fenellosa, Joseph Kosma, Samuel Barber, and traditional arr. Peter Smith.