Christmas Music
Baritone: Morys Davies
Soprano: Joan Cotterill*
Soprano: Charlotte Dunham*
Alto: Josephine Baker*
Tenor: Sam Williamson*
Tenor: Clive Barker*
*Members of the Waverley Singers
Violin: Kenneth Anderson
Violin: Margot Anderson
Viola: Stephanie Barker
Cello: Kathleen Anderson
Double Bass: Frank Tomsett
Piano and Harpsichord: Margery Wakefield
JS Bach: 'Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light' (from Christmas Oratorio)
Two carols:
- Arr. Parry: Welcome Yule
- Arr Willcocks: Sussex Carol
Duet - Clive Barker and Morys Davies:
Lubeck: Wilkommen Süsser Breutigam
Two carols:
- Howells: A Spotless Rose
- Arr. Darke: In the Bleak Midwinter
Charpentier: Midnight Mass for the Nativity
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Buxtehude: Das Neugeborne Kindelein
Richard Rodney Bennett arr: Five Carols
There is no rose; Out of your sleep; That younge Child; Sweet was the song; Susanni
Finzi: Christmas Scene (from 'In Terra Pax')
Two carols:
- Arr Rutland Boughton: The Holly and the Ivy
- Arr Eric Thiman: The Twelve Days of Christmas
P Cornelius, arr. Ivor Atkins: Chorale - Three Persian Kings from Lands Afar
"Final words of praise are due to John Cotterill whose conducting maintained a very high standard, whose explanatory words about the music were always succinct, and whose musicianship was nowhere more evident than in his spurning a desired repeat of a popular item in order to remind us more of the spiritual than the material content of this programme."
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