Peace be to you
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Our Christmas concert this year explores music by composers whose lives were touched by war. In this centenary year of the armistice, we draw together carols and readings which embody the Christmastide desire for peace on earth.
Poulenc: Un soir de neige
Howells: Here is the little door
Dyson: To Music
Ord: Adam lay ybounden
R O Morris (arr. JMP): Love came down at Christmas
Reading: A Christmas Prayer, Cyril Winterbotham
Holst: Lullay my Liking
Parry: Two Carols
1. Sing the Birth
2. Welcome, Yule!
Arr Pearsall: In dulci Jubilo
Reading: Christmas Bells, H.W. Longfellow
Howells: Salve Regina
Holst (arr Gjeilo): In the bleak midwinter
Manz: E'en so, Lord Jesus
Praetorius: Magnificat Quinti toni
Howells: Here is the little door
Dyson: To Music
Ord: Adam lay ybounden
R O Morris (arr. JMP): Love came down at Christmas
Reading: A Christmas Prayer, Cyril Winterbotham
Holst: Lullay my Liking
Parry: Two Carols
1. Sing the Birth
2. Welcome, Yule!
Arr Pearsall: In dulci Jubilo
Reading: Christmas Bells, H.W. Longfellow
Howells: Salve Regina
Holst (arr Gjeilo): In the bleak midwinter
Manz: E'en so, Lord Jesus
Praetorius: Magnificat Quinti toni