Christmas Concert

Friday & Saturday 18 & 19 December 2015, 7.30pm
St George's, Bristol

Christopher Finch - conductor
Nigel Nash - piano
Liberty Brass Ensemble

Programme

PART 1

Choir: O magnum mysterium - Victoria
Reading: Into the darkest hour - Madeleine L'Engle
Choir: Adam lay y bounden - Ord
Everyone: While shepherd watched their flocks
Reading: The Oxen - Thomas Hardy
Choir: The Lamb - Tavener
  Lulla, lulla, thou little tiny child - Leighton
Everyone: It came upon a midnight clear
Reading: from ‘The Wind in the Willows’ - Kenneth Grahame
Choir: A winter's night - Cecilia MacDowall


PART 2

Choir: The Boar's Head Carol - arr. Poston
Reading: from ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas’ - Dr Seuss
Choir: The Holly and the ivy - arr. Jacques
  Ding, Dong! - arr. Cable
Everyone: God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Reading: So that's all sorted now - Oliver Pritchett
Choir: The twelve days of Christmas - Bob Chilcott
Everyone: Hark! the herald angels sing
Choir: Winter Wonderland - arr. Gritton
  Santa Claus is comin' to town - arr. Gritton
Reading: Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer - James Finn Garner
Choir: O come, all ye faithful - Will Todd

Liberty Brass Ensemble comprises five of this country's leading young professional brass players. They are all students at London's most prestigious music colleges, and between them have performed with some of the most respected conductors and orchestras throughout the world.

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