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Christmas Concert - A Christmas Story

Mon 11 Dec 23
Concert starts at 7.30 pm

Tickets - Adults £15: Students £9; under 12’s free
from
Taunton Visitor Centre, The Market House, Fore Street, Taunton, TA1 1JD
Tel: 01823-340470
Open Monday to Saturday 09.30 to 16.30 St John the Baptist Church, High Street, Wellington TA21 8QY 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... READ MORE>

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