The Sixteen at Christmas
The Sixteen at Christmas
The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers, return to SJE with their 2019 Christmas programme.
Programme
William Walton: Make we joy now in this fest
Mediaeval carols:
Nowell, nowell: Out of your sleep
Sweet was the song
Nowell, nowell: In Bethlem
Traditional: Joys seven
Matthew Martin: Adam lay y-bounden
Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree
Peter Warlock: Corpus Christi carol
Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love
Mediaeval carols:
There is no rose
Angelus ad virginem
Make we joy
Interval
Praetorius/arr. Sandstrom: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
James Burton: Balulalow
Cecilia Mcdowall: Of a Rose
Anon: The Salutation carol
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (harpist: Frances Kelly)
This year’s programme includes Britten’s hugely popular A Ceremony of Carols – a masterful and idiomatic work that continues to be a staple of the choral canon and is an example of Britten’s genius. The remainder of the programme combines the traditional medieval carol tunes upon which so much Christmas music has been based, contrasted with more modern delights including Warlock’s Corpus Christi and Walton’s festive Make we joy now in this fest.