Winter’s Night: St John’s, Smith Square


Winter's Night: St John's, Smith Square

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/12/2018
7:30 pm

Location
St John's, Smith Square


St John’s, Smith Square, London
33rd Christmas Festival
Thursday 20 December 2018, 7.30pm

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor

‘Winter’s Night’

Anonymous Medieval Qui creavit celum (The Song of the Nuns of Chester)
Cristóbal de Morales O magnum mysterium
Traditional English There is no rose of swych vertu
Michael Praetorius arr. Melchior Vulpius Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Herbert Howells A spotless rose
Ned Rorem Canticle of the Lamb
Traditional French Entre le boeuf et l’ane gris
Jonathan Rathbone The Oxen
Traditional English arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams O little town of Bethlehem
Traditional Basque arr. Jim Clements Gabriel’s Message
John Tavener Nowell! Nowell! Out of your sleep
Traditional English Past three o’clock
Judith Weir Illuminare, Jerusalem
Traditional English arr. Stuart Nicholson Ding, dong, merrily on high 

Interval –

Anonymous Medieval, attrib. John Alcock Nowell! Nowell! Out of your sleep
Hubert H. Parry Welcome Yule!
Cheryl Frances Hoad Good Day, Sir Christemas!
John Harbison O magnum mysterium
Sally Beamish  In the stillness
Samuel Barber Twelfth Night
John Rutter Dormi, Jesu
Roxana Panufnik Sleep, little Jesus, sleep
Alexander L’Estrange Lute-book lullaby
John Goss arr. David Willcocks See amid the winter’s snow
Traditional Austrian, arr. Graham Ross Still, still, still
Gustav Holst arr. Ola Gjeilo In the bleak midwinter
Irving Berlin arr. Jeremy Davies White Christmas
James Lord Pierpoint arr. Ben Parry Jingle Bells

Tickets: £38/£28/£15/£10 (https://www.sjss.org.uk/events/winters-night)