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MARCH 2026: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield Robert Schumann - To the stars (An die Sterne) Camille Saint-Saens - Calme des nuits Eleanor Daley - grandmother moon Eric Whitacre - Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening Daniel Elder - Three Nocturnes Gerald Finzi (arr. Rathbone) - Fear no more the heat o' the sun Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque Lili Boulanger - Renouveau Will Todd - Christus est Stella James Macmillan - O Radiant Dawn Jimmy van Heusen (arr. Charlesworth) - Moonlight Becomes You So DECEMBER 2025: Ardingly College Chapel Our final concert for 2025 was a carol concert on 18th December at the Chapel of Ardingly College in support of the Air Ambulance Charity. The chapel was full and it was an honour to be performing in support of such a phenomenal charity. |
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DECEMBER 2025: Trinity Southover, Lewes Chilcott - This is the truth (1) from On Christmas Night Congregational Carol - O come all ye faithful Ben Parry - The Aldeburgh Carol Trad. arr. Willcocks - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day Trad. arr. Willcocks - Silent Night Congregational Carol - O little town of Bethlehem Beamish - In the stillness South Malling Choir: I saw three ships Sednalo E Djore Dos Girls & Boys carol Congregational Carol - Hark! The herald angels sing Stopford - Lully, Lulla, Lullay Reading - My Christmas Wish for You Trad. arr. Willcocks - Sussex Carol Rutter - What sweeter music Martin & Blane arr. Gritton - Have yourself a merry little Christmas NOVEMBER 2025: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield JUNE 2025: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes In celebration of Sir John Rutter's 80th birthday year, New Sussex Singers present Utterly Rutterly, accompanied by the Mike Horner Trio. Farrington - Then sing we all (1,2,5,7) Rutter - Moon River Rutter - I would be true (Londonderry Air) Shearing - Songs and Sonnets INTERVAL Rutter - Let’s Begin Again Rutter - Banquet Fugue Rutter - Skylark Rutter - Heavenly Aeroplane Rutter - Birthday Madrigals Encore: Rutter - The Music’s always there with you JUNE 2025: All Saint's Hove
New Sussex Singers hosted the renowned composer and conductor Sir John Rutter for a day of uplifting choral singing in Sussex. APRIL 2025: All Saints Lindfield
Stainer – God so Loved the World
Lotti - Crucifixus a 8 Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears Durufle – Ubi Caritas Stanford – Beati Quorum Via Nathaniel Dett – Ave Maria Rachmaninoff – We Hymn Thee Wheeler – Beati Quorum Via Rheinberger – Abendlied Part – The Deer’s Cry Harris – Faire is the Heaven INTERVAL Matthew Coleridge - Requiem (performed with singers and players from the wider All Saints Community) MARCH 2025: All Saints Centre, Lewes
Our MD, Seb Charlesworth hosted a fascinating workshop on the intricacies of choral singing looking particularly at tuning, blending, vowel formation and the science behind these elements of choral singing. Focussing on three fantastic pieces by wonderful contemporary choral composers.
DECEMBER 2024: Trinity Southover, Lewes Ding Dong Merrily on High - trad. arr. Mack Wilberg Sussex Carol - trad. Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Congregation) Cecilia McDowall: Christmas Natus Est (selections) While Shepherd’s watched (Congregation) Tavener: The Lamb Herbert Howells: A Spotless Rose Gareth Treseder: Blessed be that Maid Marie South Malling CofE School Choir: Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano arr. Lee Reynolds Christmas Magic – Lucy Armstrong O come all ye faithful (Congregation) Deck the Halls - trad. Will Todd: Softly O little town of Bethlehem (Congregation) Gardner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day Rutter: The Very Best Time of the Year Jingle Bells (with School Choir) Encore: A Merry Christmas (arr. Warrell) |
NOVEMBER 2024: All Saints, Lindfield
A Hymne to Christ - Imogen Holst
Ave Maris Stella - Cecilia McDowall
Paradise Found - Becky McGlade
Romance for Strings Op.11 in Eb Major -
Gerald Finzi
Beatus Vir - Clive Osgood
Sunrise Mass - Ola Gjeilo
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JUNE 2024: TRINITY St John sub Castro, Lewes
The Goslings – Frederick Bridge Three Nonsense Songs – Alan Bullard Banquet Fugue – John Rutter The Lobster Quadrille (from Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland) – Irving Fine Nonsense – Richard Rodney Bennett The Hippopotamus Song - Flanders and Swan arr. Stickles INTERVAL The Song that goes like this – Idle (arr. Huff) Geographical Fugue – Ernst Toch Poisoning Pigeons in the Park – Lehrer arr. Austin Name that tune – Grayston Ives Spider and the Fly – Waller arr. Chilcott Chilli con Carne – Anders Edenroth Encore Seaside Rendezvous – Freddie Mercury arr. Paul Hart |
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APRIL 2024: Ardingly College Chapel 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 |
MARCH 2024: All Saints, Lindfield
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DECEMBER 2023: St Michael's, Lewes
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
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
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NOVEMBER 2023: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield 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 JUNE 2023: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes 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 |
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APRIL 2023: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield 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 |
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APRIL 2023: All Saints, Lindfield 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. |
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DECEMBER 2022: St Michael's, Lewes Warlock – Bethlehem Down Darke - In the Bleak Mid-winter Philip Stopford - Lully, lulla, lullay South Malling CE Primary and Nursery School
Lauridsen – O magnum mysterium Rutter – Christmas Lullaby Bach – O little one sweet CAROLS:
A. Warrell - A merry Christmas Martin and Blanc arr. Gritton - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
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NOVEMBER 2022: St Michael's, Lewes 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 |
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JUNE 2022: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes 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 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 |
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APRIL 2022: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield F M Christiansen Lamb of God JS Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4 Ethel Smyth Komm Susser Tod JS Bach Magnificat in D Major BWV 243 |
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DECEMBER 2021: St Michael's, Lewes 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 |
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NOVEMBER 2021: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes 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 |