Join the High Holborn Chamber Choir in the first week of advent in a concert celebrating Christmas At 8pm in the Swiss Church. Doors open at 7.30pm.
The concert will feature A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten for choir and harp and modern English carols by composers such as Jonathan Dove, Cecilia McDowell, Alan Bullard and Tavener. There’ll also be some familiar Christmas tunes to keep you in high spirits.
Now may we singen – Cecilia McDowell
Ave Maria – Anton Bruckner
Christus factus est – Felice Anerio
Welcome all wonders in one sight – Jonathan dove
A ceremony of carols – Benjamin Britten
Interval
O jesulein süs – Johann Sebastian Bach
Rocking – John Tavener
The Holy boy – John Ireland
Allan Bullard Carols (choir and organ)
- A boy is born in Bethlehem
- And can this newborn mystery
- Hill Side Carol
- This Night
Michele Weir: A Holiday Jazz Trio
- Let it snow!
- I’ll be home for Christmas
- Jingle bell rock
Christmas song medley
We wish you a merry Christmas – David Willco
Now may we singen – Cecilia McDowell
Selections from A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten
- Wolcum Yole!
- As dew in Aprille
Christus factus est – Felice Anerio
Welcome all wonders in one sight – Jonathan dove
O jesulein süs – Bach
Rocking – Tavener
The Holy boy – John Ireland
Michele Weir: A Christmas Jazz Trio:
- Santa Claus is coming to town
- O Christmas Tree
- Winter Wonderland
Interval
Wassail – Ralph Vaughan Williams
It came upon a midnight clear – Richard Willis
Candlelight Carol – John Rutter
Allan Bullard Carols (choir and organ)
- A boy is born in Bethlehem
- And can this newborn mystery
- Hill Side Carol
- This Night
Michele Weir: A Holiday Jazz Trio
- Let it snow!
- I’ll be home for Christmas
- Jingle bell rock
We wish you a merry Christmas – David Willcocks
This Summer concert features folk music, with a focus on music from the British Isles in the first half, but looking further afield to folk music from around the world in our second half. The first half is solely dedicated to music by twentieth century British composers, such as Moeran, Britten and Finzi. The second half features a range of music from Renaissance French polyphony to modern arrangements of American folk songs, most notably featuring a world première of an arrangement of the American folk song, Shenandoah, by British composer and choral conductor, Robert Brooks.
Blow away the morning dew – Reginald Owen Morris
Bluebird – Charles Villiers Stanford
An Irish Blessing – Pete Churchill
Soloist: Karine Sá Ferreira
Scarborough Fair Canticle – Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
Songs of Springtime – Ernest John Moeran
I: Under the Greenwood Tree
II: The River-God’s Song
III: Spring the Sweet Spring
IV: Love is a sickness
Flower Songs – Benjamin Britten
I: To Daffodils
V: Ballad of Green Broom
My Spirit sang all day – Gerald Finzi
Interval
Rain Rain, Beautiful Rain – Joseph Shabalaya, arr. Scott Stroman
Soloists: Hiroki Shibata and Lucy Handscomb
Siyahumba – South African folk song, arr. by Scott Stroman
Il est bel et bon – French folk song, arr. by Pierre Passereau
Voici le printemps – Belgian folk song, arr. by B. Lallement
Shenandoah – American folk song, arr. Robert Brooks (première)
I’m going away - American folk song, arr. by Robert P. Manookin
Muie Rendera – Brazilian folk song, arr. by Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca
Sfogava con le stelle – Claudio Monteverdi
Pange Lingua – Anton Bruckner
Locus Iste – Anton Bruckner
Softly fall the shades of evening – John Hatton
Lux Aeterna – Morten Lauridsen
I: Introitus
II: In te, Domine, speravi
III: O nata lux
IV: Veni, Sancte Spiritus
V: Agnus Dei – Lux Aeterna
Interval
Wassail – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Candlelight Carol – John Rutter
It came upon a midnight clear – Richard Willis
Silent Night – Will Todd
Four Christmas songs arranged by Michele Weir:
Santa Claus is coming to town
O Christmas Tree
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
I’ll be home for Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas – David Willcocks
Encore: Let there be light – Craig Courtney