Choir Concert - Temple Winter Festival 2017

The Choir of Merton College
Ben Nicholas director
Anthony Andrews reader
Alexander Little and Thomas Fetherstonhaugh organ

Vaughan Williams brings together two of his greatest passions in the Fantasia on Christmas Carols – the festival of Christmas and the English folksong. And just as Vaughan Williams' popular work brings something new to the beautiful folksong melodies, this sequence of motets and carols for Christmas contrasted more recent settings of traditional texts by some of the most exciting composers writing today with much-loved settings by Pearsall, Howells, Britten and Poulenc.

Programme

Ešenvalds O Emmanuel
Ešenvalds Magnificat
Tabakova Alma Redemptoris Mater
Howells A Spotless Rose
Britten Hymn to the Virgin
Harvey The Annunciation
Victoria O magnum mysterium
Mouton Nesciens Mater
Lassus Omnes de Saba venient

Interval

Trad. German arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsall In dulci jubilo
Poston Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree
Burton Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Rutter Dormi Jesu
Poulenc Quem vidistis pastores dicite
Bassi Quem pastores
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Part of the Temple Winter Festival 2017.