Songs of the Fleet
Saturday 11 July 2026, Downing Place URC, Cambridge CB2 3EL
Join us for a concert built around Stanford’s rousing song cycle for solo baritone and chorus, Songs of the Fleet, with other water-themed works from other Romantic composers, plus Eric Whitacre’s much-loved Water night.
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) – Songs of the Fleet, Op. 117
- Edward Elgar (1857–1934) – As torrents in summer
- Charles Villiers Stanford – The blue bird
- Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918) – Music, when soft voices die
- Charles Wood (1866–1926) – Full fathom five
- Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) – Water night