Encores for Choirs 2

for SATB accompanied and unaccompanied 30 varied pieces ranging in style from the classic and sentimental to the humorous and madcap. With the standards of the repertoire are new pieces and fresh arrangements by some of the finest arrangers. The volume provides an unrivalled kaleidoscope of concert encores.

Arthur Sullivan arr. Peter Gritton: A Modern Major-General; Scottish trad. arr. Joanna Forbes: Auld Lang Syne; Gustav Holst: Bring us in good ale; American trad. arr. Bob Chilcott: Buffalo Gals; Camille Saint-Sa"ens: Calmes des nuits; Holt, McGhee and King, arr. Peter Gritton: Chick, chick, chicken!; David Cullen: Counting Up My Toes; English trad. arr. Peter Gritton: Country Gardens; English trad. arr. John Rutter: Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron; Daryl Runswick: Deconstructing Johann; Spiritual arr. Peter Gritton: Dry Bones; Jaakko M?ntyj?rvi: El Hambo; Spiritual arr. Bob Chilcott: Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit; Peter Gritton: Good Hope; Flanders and Swann after Mozart arr. Peter Gritton: Ill Wind; John Rutter: It was a lover and his lass; William Billings: Jargon; Lalo Schifrin arr. Mark Williams: Mission: Impossible; Max Reger: Nachtlied; Jacques Offenbach arr. Cantabile: Orpheus in the Underground; North American trad. arr. John G. McCurry: Parting Friends; American trad. arr. James Erb: Shenandoah; Wright and Forrest after Borodin arr. Peter Gritton: Stranger in Paradise; W. A. Mozart arr. Ben Parry: Take it from Figure 'O' Arthur Sullivan; Howard Skempton: The tide rises, the tide falls; Peter Gritton: Three-minute Messiah; William Walton arr. Roderick Williams: 'Un'-Popular Song; Sergei Rachmaninov arr. Peter Gritton: Vocalise; Johannes Brahms arr. Robin Gritton: Wiegenlied

Peter Gritton studied music at Clare College, Cambridge before taking up a post at Christ Church, Oxford as a countertenor Lay Clerk. Peter has sung with a variety of groups including The Sixteen, The Cambridge Singers, Gabrieli Consort, I Fagiolini, and a close harmony group, The Light Blues, with whom he has travelled worldwide. He is currently Director of Music at St Paul's School. London, as well as enjoying a busy schedule composing, arranging, and singing.