Louise Jones - contralto
Song/lieder repertoire
As well as lieder and song, this section includes arias from oratorio and opera, ballads and vocal duets and quartets:
Barber On Dover Beach
Berlioz Villanelle
Berlioz La Spectre de la Rose
Brahms Sapphische Ode
Brahms Four Serious Songs
Brahms Immer Leiser
Brahms Stänchen
Brahms Two Songs with Viola Op. 91
Brahms Vocal Quartets Op. 31, 64, 92, 103 & 112
Bridge Come to me in my Dreams
Bridge O that it were so!
Bridge Go not Happy Day
Bridge Love went a-Riding
Britten A Charm of Lullabies
Caccini Amarilli mia bella
Du Parc Chanson Triste
Du Parc Phidylé
Du Parc Extase
Dvorak Songs my Mother taught me
Fauré Les Roses d’Ispahan
Fauré Le Secret
Fauré Automne
Fauré Chanson d’Amour
Fauré Après un Rêve
Finzi Let us Garlands bring
Handel Judas Maccabaeus (O Lovely Peace duet)
Handel Semele (Awake Saturnia!; Hence, hence, Iris hence away; Where’re You Walk)
Holst Four Songs Op. 35
Lully Bois épais
Mahler Rückert Lieder
Mahler Kindertoten Lieder
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Mendelssohn Herbstlied (Ach wie so bald - duet)
Mendelssohn Greetings (duet)
Mendelssohn I would that my Love (duet)
Mozart Als Luise die briefe
Novello We’ll gather Lilacs
Offenbach Fairest Evening (duet)
Parry Love is a bable
Pergolesi Se tu m’ami, se sospiri
Purcell Alleluia
Purcell Sweeter than Roses
Purcell Music for a While
Purcell If Music be the Food of Love
Purcell Mad Bess
Purcell Welcome to all the Pleasures
Purcell Man is for the Woman made
Purcell Sound the Trumpet (duet)
Quilter Now sleeps the Crimson Petal
Quilter Love’s Philosophy
Quilter Come away Death
Quilter O Mistress mine
Quilter Blow, blow Thou Winter Wind
Quilter Dream Valley
Schubert Litanie
Schubert An Die Music
Schubert Die Junge Nonne
Schubert Die Liebende schreibt
Schubert Geheimes
Schubert Liebesbotschaft
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
Schumann Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint
Schumann Lust der Sturmnacht
Stanford A Soft Day
Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs
Vaughan Williams Silent Noon
Wagner Wesendonk Lieder
Traditional
Black is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair (arr. James Sherrin)
Blow the Wind Southerly (arr. William Whittaker)
I have a Bonnet trimmed with Blue (arr. Herbert Hughes)
I know where I’m goin’ (arr. Herbert Hughes)
I will walk with my Love (arr. Herbert Hughes)
Kitty my Love (arr. Herbert Hughes)
Lark in the Clear Air (arr. Phyllis Tate)
Nobody knows de Trouble I’ve seen (arr. Harry Burleigh)
O can ye sew Cushions? (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Oliver Cromwell (arr. Benjamin Britten)
O Waly, Waly (arr. Benjamin Britten)
The Ash Grove (arr. Benjamin Britten)
The Stuttering Lovers (arr. Herbert Hughes)
The Salley Gardens (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Ballads
A Perfect Day (Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
Holy City (Stephen Adams)
In the Gloaming (Annie Harrison)
Just a-wearyin’ for you (Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
Kashmiri Song (Amy Finden)
Love’s old Sweet Song (James Molloy)
The Last Rose of Summer (John Stevenson)