Great British Contraltos

ADA CROSSLEY Giordani: Caro mio ben

ELIZABETH DEWS Handel: Then shall the eyes….He shall feed His flock (Messiah)

CLARA BUTT Handel: Ombra mai fu (Serse); Yamada: Chinkoro Koino

LOUISE KIRBY LUNN Verdi: O don fatale (Don Carlos); Saint-Saens: Printemps qui commence (Samson et Dalila); Mozart: Non più di fiori (La Clemenza di Tito);

EDNA THORNTON Purcell: Thy hand Belinda……When I am laid in earth (Dido & Aeneas)

BERTHA LEWIS Gilbert & Sullivan: I`m called Little Buttercup (HMS Pinafore); Gilbert & Sullivan: So go to him and say to him (Patience)

EDITH FURMEDGE Saint-Saëns: Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse (Samson et Dalilah)

LEILA MEGANE Elgar: Sabbath Morning at Sea (Sea Pictures)

MARGARET BALFOUR Elgar: Land of Hope and Glory

ASTRA DESMOND Purcell: From rosy bow’rs (Don Quixote); Purcell: Evening Hymn

OLGA HALEY Bizet: Gypsy Dance (Carmen)

ESSIE ACKLAND Arthur Sullivan: Onward Christian Soldiers

MURIEL BRUNSKILL Schubert: Erl King; Harty: Sea Wrack

MARY JARRED Elgar: Sea Slumber Song (Sea Pictures)

GLADYS RIPLEY Haydn: Hark what I tell to thee (The Spirit's Song)

KATHLEEN FERRIER Gluck: What is Life? (Orfeo & Euridice); Brahms: Constancy; Brahms: Feinsliebchen; Elgar: My work is done…..It is because (Dream of Gerontius)

CONSTANCE SHACKLOCK Elgar: In Haven (Capri) from Sea Pictures

NANCY EVANS A. Beecham: Two Shakespearean Songs ‘Willow Song’ & ‘O mistress mine’

HELEN WATTS Britten: A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41

NORMA PROCTER Mahler: Sehr Langsam - Misterioso (Symphony No. 3)

ALFREDA HODGSON Moeran: Four Shakespeare Songs