Sunday 4th January 1998

KING'S COLLEGE, TAUNTON

THE SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR
with Richard Pearce (Organ)

A concert of seasonal works interspersed with movements of one of Messiaen's most popular works for the organ:

La Nativite du Seigneur

Choral Works:

Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Weelkes: Gloria in Excelsis
Britten: A Shepherd's Carol
Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
Lassus: Resonet in Laudibus
Billings: A Virgin unspotted
14th cent.: Angelus ad Virginen
Holst/Caldbeck: In the bleak mid-winter
Old German Traditionals: In Dulci Jubilo & Joseph Lieber
Basque Carol: The Angel Gabriel
Gardner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Tavener: The Lamb
Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Rutter: Shepherd's Pipe Carol
English Traditional: Sussex Carol.
Kelly: Magnificat and Nunc Dimititis

A Shorter version of this concert was given earlier in the day in the Priory Church of St. Andrew's, Stogursey, Somerset.

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