Festive Christmas Concert - A Christmas Story

Collegium Singers

Collegium Singers are looking forward to seeing you in St John’s Church, Wellington for our traditional Christmas Concert – seasonal refreshments, music old and new, and some for you to sing too!

Listen as the Nativity story unfolds through music and words written across the ages from Renaissance to the present day.

The programme features a multinational selection of composers from North America, Scotland, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia, and includes Bach, Rachmaninov, Howells, Bruckner, MacMillan and Aleotti, each of them offering distinctive music to herald and celebrate the Christmas season.

Programme

First half

Now may we singen – Cecilia McDowall

Hodie Christus natus est – Hieronymous Praetorius

Gabriel’s message – Jim Clements

Vom Himmel Hoch – Johann Sebastian Bach

Ne Timeas Maria  – Tomás Luis de Victoria

Freut euch und jubiliert  – Johann Sebastian Bach

A Nativity – John Tavener

Bogoroditse Dyevo – Sergi Rachmaninov

A Hymne to Christ – Imogen Holst

Virga Jesse – Anton Bruckner

My heart, O God – Lucy Walker

Sicut locutus east  – Johann Sebastian Bach

Second Half

O Radiant Dawn – James MacMillan

Angelus ad pastores ait – Raffaella Aleotti

The Huron Carol – Eleanor Daley

Quem vidistis pastores?– Richard Dering

The Shepherd’s Carol – Bob Chilcott

The Oxen – Jonathan Rathbone

Here is the little door – Herbert Howells

The Three Kings – Peter Cornelius  arr. Ivor Atkins

In dulci jubilo – Robert Pearsall

Somerset Carol – Traditional

Cornish Wassail – Imogen Holst

The 12 Days of Christmas – Andrew Carter