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April 18th 2025 - Good Friday Concert
7pm All Saints, Lindfield
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Programme to include:
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Harris – Faire is the Heaven
Rheinberger – Abendlied
Stainer – God so Loved the World
Rachmaninoff – We Hymn Thee
Nathaniel Dett – Ave Maria
Stanford – Beati Quorum Via
Wheeler – Beati Quorum Via
Part – The Deer’s Cry
Lotti - Crucifixus a 8
Duruflé – Ubi Caritas
Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears
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INTERVAL

Matthew Coleridge - Requiem (performed with singers from the wider All Saints Church Community.)
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​16th November 2024
All Saints, Lindfield
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A Hymne to Christ - Imogen Holst
Ave Maris Stella - Cecilia McDowall
Paradise Found - Becky McGlade
Romance for Strings Op.11 in Eb Major - 
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Gerald Finzi
Beatus Vir - Clive Osgood
Sunrise Mass - Ola Gjeilo
21st June 2O24
Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes
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14th April 2024
​Ardingly College Chapel
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​Programme:
New Sussex Singers joined forces with Ardingly Choral Society for a sold out performance of J.S Bach's St Matthew Passion.
Conducted by Sebastian Charlesworth (New Sussex Singers) and Robert Hammersley (ACS) with the Linden Baroque Orchestra. 
Evangelist - Richard Robbins
Jesus - Stephen Charlesworth
Soprano - Olivia Bell
Alto - Lauren Easton
Tenor - Edward Woodhouse
Bass - Matthew Duncan
9th March 2024
All Saints, Lindfield
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READ MORE ABOUT OUR RECENT JAZZ VOCAL     WORKSHOP WITH JON SMITH OF THE RENOWNED VOCAL GROP THE SWINGLES HERE


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10th December 2023
St Michael's Church, Lewes
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PROGRAMME
Manning and Duffy
 - The Carol Singer’s Carol (from The Manchester Carols)

Macmillan - O Radiant Dawn
Congregational - The First Nowell
Sally Beamish - In The Stillness 
Bob Chilcott – The Shepherd’s Carol
Gustav Holst - In the Bleak mid-winter
arr. Willcocks - Sussex Carol
Congregational - God Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman
Children's choir pieces:
John Joubert - Torches
trad Spanish arr. Schram - A la nanita nana
Trad. arr. Barry Rose - Silent Night
John Rutter – Mary’s Lullaby
Richard Lloyd – Love came down at Christmas
arr. Willcocks - Deck the Halls
​Congregational - O Come, all ye faithful
Joint piece:
Marks arr. Allain - Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

arr. Warrell - A Merry Christmas

11th November 2023
Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield
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​June 24th 2023
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Trinity st john sub castro, lewes

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PROGRAMME
Elgar – 
They are at rest 
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Turtle-Dove 
Solo song: William Dennis Browne – To Gratiana Dancing and Singing 
Philip Stopford – Do not be afraid 
 POEM – The Send-Off by Wilfred Owen 
 Hubert Parry – Songs of Farewell (selections) 
-        1. My Soul there is a country 
-        3. Never weather-beaten sail 
-        4. There is an old belief 
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied 
Richard Rodney-Bennett – A Good-Night 
Solo song: John Ireland – The Soldier from 2 Songs to Poems by Rupert Brooke 
POEM – My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling 
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rest 
Edward Elgar – Lux Aeterna (Nimrod) 
Gabriel Faure – Agnus Dei and Lux Aeterna  and In Paradisum from Requiem





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PROGRAMME
​H Harlen arr. Guy Turner - Over the Rainbow
Harline/Washington - When you wish upon a star
Van Heusen arr. Charlesworth – Moonlight becomes you
Raskin/Mercer arr. R 
Williams - Laura
Fain/Paul Francis Webster - Love is a many splendored thing
Livingston/Evans arr. Justin Got – Que sera, sera 
Mancini arr. Rutter - Moon River
Bacharach/David arr. Wendy L Jones - Alfie

Bacharach/David arr. Cederberg-Orreteg
 – Raindrops keep falling on my head  
Hal David/Barry arr. Lydon - We have all the time in the world
Bricusse/Newley arr. Matthew D Nielsen - Pure Imagination

Bergman/Berman/Hamlisch arr. Bunch – The way we were
Cross/Bacharach/Allen/Sager arr. S Charlesworth - Arthur's theme
                        
John Williams arr. Richard Vaughan - Suo Gan
Alex North arr. Kirby Shaw - Unchained Melody
Lerner and Loewe arr. Huff - Almost like being in love
Chaplin arr. Ben Bram - Smile
Newman arr. Braggi Thorvalson - When She Loved Me
Enya arr. Austin - May it be
Mitchell arr. John Leavitt - Both sides now
Wilson arr. Bergquist - God only knows
Idle arr. Huff - Always look on the bright side of life

april 15th 2023
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holy trinity church, cuckfield

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PROGRAMME

​Thomas Morley  – Now is the month of Maying
Haydn – Komm, holder Lenz (from The Seasons)
Ernest Moeran – Songs of Springtime
Peter Warlock arr. Tomlinson – My own country
arr. Ayres – As I went out one May morning
Finzi arr. ASG – It was a lover and his lass
Vaughan Williams - Just as the tide was flowing (from 5 English Folk Songs, no 3)
Trad. arr. Vine - Down by the Salley Gardens
Stanford – The Bluebird
Trad. arr. Holst – I love my love
Simon Austin – Jacaranda
Wilhelm Peterson - Berger – Varsang (I & II)
Våren (Last Spring) - Edvard Grieg
For the beauty of the Earth -John Rutter
When Daffodils begin to peer – Shearing

april 7th 2023
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all saints, lindfield

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PROGRAMME
New Sussex Singers were invited to perform the beautiful and popular Requiems by John Rutter and Gabriel Fauré at All Saints Church, Lindfield, West Sussex. 

December 4th 2022
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St.Michael's in Lewes

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pROGRAMME

Warlock – Bethlehem Down
Darke - In the Bleak Mid-winter
Philip Stopford - Lully, lulla, lullay
South Malling CE Primary and Nursery School
  • Lawson - How far is it to Bethlehem?
  • Gruber arr. Sargeant - Silent Night ​
Trad. Arr. Allwood - Jingle Bells
Lauridsen – O magnum mysterium
Rutter – Christmas Lullaby
Bach – O little one sweet
CAROLS:
  • O little town of Bethlehem
  • Hark! The herald angles sing
  • O come, all ye faithful​
Lowell arr. Rutter - Joy to the world
A. Warrell - A merry Christmas
Martin and Blanc arr. Gritton  - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

November 11th 2022
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St.Michael's in Lewes

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pROGRAMME

James MacMillan – O Radiant Dawn
Stephen Chatman – Time Pieces No.4 Clock
Benjamin Britten – ‘The Evening Primrose’ and ‘The succession of four sweet months’ from Five Flower Songs
Vaughan Williams – The Springtime of the Year (From 5 English Folk Songs)
Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the Year
Benjamin Britten – Op.53 Choral Dances from Gloriana No.3: Time and Concord
Edward Elgar - As Torrents in Summer
Kenneth V Jones - Twilight – (No.4 from Four Part-Songs)
Finzi arr. Rathbone – Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Samuel Barber – To be sung on the water
Bob Chilcott – Even Such is time
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes​

June 25th 2022
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Trinity CHurch, St John sub castro, Lewes

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pROGRAMME

Brahms - Liebeslieder Op. 52. 
Paul Carr - Old-Fashioned Love Songs
Kern arr. Blackwell - Smoke gets in your eyes
Sherwin arr. Puerling - A Nightingale sang in Berkeley square 
Cole Porter arr. Blackwell - Let’s do it
Gershwin arr. Campbell - Our Love is here to stay
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Jerome Kern arr. Chilcott - Don’t ever leave me 
Jimmy van Heusen arr. S Charlesworth - Moonlight Becomes You
Mancini arr. John Rutter - Moon River 
Ivor Novello arr. J Derbyshire - We’ll gather lilacs

aPRIL 15th 2022
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hOLY TRINITY CHURCH, cUCKFIELD

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pROGRAMME

F M Christiansen Lamb of God

JS Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4

Ethel Smyth Komm Susser Tod
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JS Bach Magnificat in D Major BWV 243



December 5th 2021
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St. Michael's Church, lewes

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pROGRAMME

Trad - O come all ye faithful
Richard Rodney Bennett – I wonder as I wander
Tchaikovsky – The Crown of Roses
Trad. – The sun in the morning (Sussex folk song)
Lauridsen – Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses)
Trad/Willcocks– Tomorrow shall be my dancing day​
Trad. - Good King Wenceslas
Rutter – Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Arvo Part - O Weisheit (From Sieben Magnificat antiphons)
Anon. – Gabriel’s Message
Anon. arr. Mathias – Sir Christemus
Trad. - Ding dong merrily on high
Britten – There is no rose (from A Ceremony of Carols)
Richard Rodney Bennett – Lullaby Baby
​Pearsall - in Dulci Jubilo
Trad. Arr. Warrell – A merry Christmas

November 13th 2021
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Trinity st, john's-sub-castro, Lewes.

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Programme:

Healey Willan – Rise up, my love, my fair one
Samuel Barber – Sure on this shining night
Morten Lauridsen – Les Chansons des Roses
Aaron Copland – Old American Folk Songs:
- Long Time Ago (arr. Irving Fine)
- I Bought me a cat (arr. Irving Fine)
- At the River (arr. Ray Wilding-White)
- The Golden Willow Tree (arr. Gregory Rose)
Daniel Elder – Three Nocturnes:
Ballade to the moon,  Star Sonnet, Lullaby
Trad. Arr. Linda Steen Spevacek – Shenandoah
Stephen Sondheim –Sunday
(from Sunday in the Park with George)
Ernest Charles – When I have sung my songs to you
Trad. (arr. Stephen Jackson) – The Rio Grande
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