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Carols and Readings
Friday 16th & Saturday 17th December, 2005
St George’s Bristol
Peter Leech Conductor
Nigel Nash Piano
Programme
PART 1 |
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| Choir: | This is the record of John - Grayston Ives (b.1948) |
| Reading: | Voices in the mist - Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Choir: | Omnes de Saba venient - Jacob Handl (Gallus) (1550-91) |
| Carol: | Unto us is born a Son |
| Reading: | from Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee |
| Choir: | A Christmas Anthem - William Matthews of Nottingham (1759-1830) |
| Reading: | What the Donkey Saw - U A Fanthorpe |
| Reading: | Mary's Question - Alan Stanford |
| Choir: | Hark! the Herald Angels Sing - Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) |
| Carol: | For Christmas Day - arr. Thomas Butts (mid 18th century) |
| Reading: | Twelve More Days of Christmas - (anon.) |
| Choir: | And the Glory (from Messiah) - GF Handel (1685-1759) Lift up your Heads (from Messiah) |
| Reading: | Heigh Ho! the Holly - Richard Steele (1671-1729) |
| Choir: | In Dulci Jubilo - Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) |
| PART 2 | |
| Choir: | For unto us a child is born (from Messiah) - Handel |
| Reading: | Balthasar - Gerard Benson |
| Choir: | Advent Wreath Prayers - Malcolm Archer (b. 1952) |
| Carol: | Helmsley - Martin Madan? (1725-1790) arr. Edward Miller of Doncaster (1735-1807) |
| Choir: | Pastores loquebantur - Franz Xaver Brixi (1732-1771) |
| Reading: | The Nativity - William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Choir: | The Song of the Angels - published by Michael Beesly of Blewbury, Oxfordshire (b. 1700) |
| Reading: | Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas - Stephen Leacock |
| Carol: | O come, all ye faithful |
| Choir:: | Hajej, nynej, Jezisku -Czech traditional carol |
| Choir: | Quem vidistis, pastores? - Richard Dering (c. 1580-1630) |
| Reading: | Deck the Halls - Bill Bryson |
| Choir: | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Hugh Martin & Ralph Blanc, arr. Peter Gritton |