The festive season got off to a start with our Christmas concert in the heart of the City of London. Anthems old and new, readings for the season, and carols for all to sing put our audience in a celebratory spirit in the intimate, candlelit Georgian surroundings of St Botolph’s Church, a stone’s throw from Liverpool Street Station. The audience joined us afterwards for a glass of mulled wine and mince pie
Programme includes:
Alleluya! A New Work is Come on Hand – Peter Wishart
There Shall a Star from David Rise Up – Felix Mendelssohn
The Holy Boy – John Ireland
Children’s Song of the Nativity – traditional
The Shepherd’s Carol – Bob Chilcott
In the Bleak Midwinter – Harold Darke
The Sussex Carol – arr. David Willcocks
As Dew in Aprylle – Peter Warlock
Balulalow – Francis Pott
Sir Christemas – William Mathias
Bogoroditse Dyevo – Arvo Pärt
Carol of the Bells – Mykola Leontovych
Koppangen – Per-Erik Moraeus, arr. Robert Sund
Away in a Manger – traditional
Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King – traditional, arr. Moses Hogan
Matthew Altham, director
Martin Toyer, organ