Of one that is so fair and bright
Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/12/2017
7:00 pm
Location
First United Methodist Church
USA Tour
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and their director Graham Ross present a sumptuous Christmas programme in praise of the Virgin Mary and the coming of the light. Renaissance masterpieces, including Hieronymus Praetorius’s Christmas Magnificat (performed with its original interpolated carols) sit alongside more recent much-loved seasonal works, including motets by Tavener, Mathias, Rutter and Ross, and some highly-catchy arrangements guaranteed to put you in the festive mood. A perfect start to the Christmas season.
PLAINSONG Verbum supernum prodiens
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (c. 1525–94) Surge, illuminare
WILLIAM BYRD (c. 1539/40–1623) Vigilate
HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS (1560–1629) Magnificat quinti toni (with Josef lieber and In dulci jubilo)
JOHN TAVENER (1944–2013) Today the Virgin
JOHN TAVENER God is with us
GARTH EDMUNDSON (1892–1971) Toccata on ‘Vom Himmel Hoch’ (organ solo)
CHARLES WOOD (1866–1926) Hail, gladdening light!
TRADITIONAL Gaudete
JOHN JOUBERT (b. 1927) Torches
TRADITIONAL arr. DAVID WILLCOCKS (1919–2015) The infant king
JOHN RUTTER (b. 1945) What sweeter music
ERIC WHITACRE (b. 1970) Lux aurumque
FRANZ GRÜBER (1787–1863) arr. GRAHAM ROSS (b. 1985) Silent night (world première)
WILLIAM MATHIAS (1934–92) A babe is born
JAMES BURTON (b. 1974) Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Arr. JAMES MAWSON (b. 1988) Santa Baby
Trad. arr. FREDERIC AUSTIN (1872–1952) arr. IAN HUMPRHIS (1927–2012) The Twelve Days of Christmas