What do I sing?


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These are the solo concert roles I’ve sung:

  • C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat
  • J. C. Bach: Magnificat in C
  • J. S. Bach: St. John Passion (Evangelist & tenor arias) / St. Matthew Passion (tenor arias) / Mass in B Minor / Mass in G / Magnificat in D / Christmas Oratorio / Coffee Cantata / & many church cantatas
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
  • Britten: St. Nicholas / Rejoice in the Lamb
  • Buxtehude: Jesu, meine Freude
  • Geoffrey Bush:  A Summer Serenade
  • Carissimi: Jepthah /  Historia Abraham et Isaac
  • Charpentier: Le Jugement Dernier / Messe de Minuit / Te Deum
  • Clérambault: Orphée (cantata)
  • Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
  • Dvorak: Stabat Mater
  • Finzi: For St. Cecilia
  • Franck: Les Béatitudes
  • Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass
  • Grainger: Brigg Fair
  • Handel: Dixit Dominus / Messiah / Ode to St Cecilia / Sing unto God / “Dettingen” Te Deum / “Utrecht” Te Deum / Chandos  Anthem no 9 (“O praise the Lord with one consent”)
  • John Harper: Grace for a wedding (1st performance)
  • Haydn: Stabat Mater / The Creation / “Nelson” Mass / Paukenmesse / “St Nicholas” Mass / “Creation” Mass / Theresienmesse
  • Janacek: Otcenas (Our Father)
  • Leoncavallo: Ave Maria
  • Lully: Dies Irae
  • Maunder: Olivet to Calvary
  • Mendelssohn: Elijah / Hymn of Praise
  • Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 / “Christmas Vespers” / Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
  • Mozart: Requiem /  “Coronation” Mass / “Credo” Mass / Missa Brevis in D minor / Masonic Cantata / Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento
  • Neilsen: Springtime on Funen
  • Nick Phillips: Red Ribbon Requiem
    (1st performance of symphonic version)
  • Pergolesi: Magnificat
  • Puccini: Messa di Gloria
  • Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures
  • Rachmaninov: Vespers (All Night Vigil)
  • Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
  • Bernard Reichel: Gloria
    (1st UK performance)
  • Schubert: Mass in G
  • Schumann: Dichterliebe (Song cycle)
  • Schütz: Christmas Story / The Seven Last Words
  • Stanier: The Crucifixion
  • Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor  / On Wenlock Edge (song cycle) / Serenade to Music
  • Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus / Magnificat
  • Charles Wood: St Mark Passion

These are the roles I’ve sung in opera & operetta – on stage or in concert performances

    • Thomas Arne: The Cooper – Colin
    • Arthur Benjamin: Prima Donna – Alcino
    • Lennox Berkley: A Dinner Engagement – Phillipe
    • Bernstein: Candide – The Governor & Vanderdendur
    • Bizet: The Pearl Fishers – Nadir
    • Britten:  A Midsummer Night‘s Dream – Snout / Albert Herring – The Mayor
    • Gluck:  Armide – Artémidor
    • Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady – First Cockney
    • Menotti: Amahl & the Night Visitors – Kaspar
    • Mozart: Don Giovanni – Ottavio / The Magic Flute – Monastatos & First Armed Man / The Marriage of Figaro – Basilio & Curzio / The Impresario – Impresario
    • Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – Rinuccio / Tosca – Spoletta
    • Purcell: Dido and Aeneas – Sailor
    • Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado – Nanki-Poo / Princess Ida – Hilarion / Utopia Ltd – Capt Fitzbattleaxe / The Gondoliers – Luiz / Trial by Jury – Defendant / Pirates of Penzance – Frederic /The Sorcerer – Alexis / Box and Cox – Box
    • Romberg:  The Desert Song – Sid El Kar
    • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin – Lensky
    • Verdi: La Traviata – Gaston
    • Weil: Der Jasager – The Boy

… and the occasional “Nessun Dorma” at events or in clubs.