A Winter's Night
For our Winter’s Night concert this year we have chosen music from the late Victorian era to an imaginative medley of carols composed by Cecilia McDowell in 2014. We will include beautiful French music by Poulenc celebrating Christmas, Vaughan-Williams glorious ‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ and some wonderful settings of well-loved carols. We won’t forget you, the audience, and hope you will join us to sing some of our best-loved traditional carols. With refreshments in the interval, and an evening of festive music we are sure you will go home with a song in your hearts!
Tickets £15.00 pp from Sarah Philips at sarahphillips365@outlook.com or Andy Brown on 01206 210963
The Programme will include:
Bruckner: Motets:
Locus iste, Virga Jesse, Vexilla regis
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
Poulenc: Christmas motets:
Quem vidistis, Videntes Stellum, Hodie, Christus natus est
Cecilia McDowell: A Winter’s Night
Herbert Howells: Here is a little door
Mathias: Sir Christemas (in Carols for Choirs 2, if you have one)
Matthias: A babe is born (in Carols for Choirs 3, if you have one)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Finale: Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson arr. Michael Edwards
And favourite traditional carols for the audience!