Celebrate Christmas!
Friday 17 December 1999, 19:30 - 21:30
St John's Hyde Park [ map ]
Hyde Park Crescent
London W2 2QD
Orlando Chamber Choir
Brian Gordon, director
Joseph Nolan, organ and piano
Peter Bolgar, reader
Christmas music and reading of works by Thomas Hardy, John Betjeman, John Milton, Charles Dickens and others.
Programme
David Willcocks (1919 - 2015)
Of the Father's heart begotten
Angelus ad virginem
Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
A great and mighty wonder
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
O little town of Bethlehem
John Rutter (1945 - )
The shepherd's pipe carol
David Willcocks (1919 - 2015)
Infant holy
Reginald Jacques (1894 - 1969)
Angels from the realms of glory
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621)
Hodie Christus natus est
William Mathias (1934 - 1992)
Sir Christèmas
David Willcocks (1919 - 2015)
Deck the hall
God rest you merry, gentlemen
Charles Wood (1866 - 1926)
Ding dong merrily on high
David Willcocks (1919 - 2015)
We three kings
Edgar Pettman (1866 - 1943)
I saw a maiden
Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
The shepherds' farewell
Harold Darke (1888 - 1976)
In the bleak midwinter
John Rutter (1945 - )
Sans day carol
The twelve days of Christmas
David Willcocks (1919 - 2015)
Away in a manger
The first Nowell
