Main Performers | Martin Jarvis, Hannah Gordon - vocals, Margaret Phillips - organ, Tristan Fry - percussion |
Choirs | London Choral Society, Haberdashers' Aske's School Boys' Choir |
Set List | Prologue: The Spirit of Christmas (Pickwick Papers), Dickens, 'O Come, All Ye Faithful', J F Wade, arr. Willcocks, Reading: 'The Annunciation: St. Luke Chapter 1,v v.26-38', 'Gabriel's Message', arr. David Willcocks, 'I Sing of a Maiden', Berkeley, 'See Amid the Winter's Snow', John Goss, arr. Willcocks, 'In the Bleak Mid-Winter', Harold Darke, 'Reading:Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', Robert Frost, 'How Far is it to Bethlehem?', arr. Willcocks,(Haberdashers' Choir), 'The Virgin Mary Meek and Mild', arr. E P (Haberdashers' Choir), Reading - 'When Icicles Hang by the Wall', Shakespeare, Reading - The Visit of the Carol Singers' from Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 'Ding Dong! Merrily on High', arr. Charles Wood, 'Sans Day Carol', arr. Andrew Carter, 'Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder' (English Brass Ensemble), 'O Little Town of Bethlehem', arr. Vaughan Williams, desc. Thomas Armstrong INTERVAL 'Prologue:Winter Evening', Walter de la Mare, 'Once in Royal David's City', H J Gauntlett, arr. A H Mann, desc. organ Willcocks, 'Sir Christemas', Mathias, 'Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day', John Gardner, Reading: 'The Birth of Christ:St.Luke Chapter II vv.1-16', 'Bethlehem Down', Peter Warlock, 'Coventry Carol', Terence Greaves, 'Mary's Cradle Song', F Roy Bennett, 'While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks', Este's Psalter, 1592, Reading: 'Journey of the Magi', T S Eliot, 'Raggle Taggle Three Wise Men', Herbert Chappell (Haberdashers' Choir), 'Now is Christemas', Herbert Chappell (Haberdashers' Choir), 'Reading:Christmas' (John Betjeman), 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas', arr. Arthur Warrell, 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing', Mendelssohn, desc., organ Willcocks |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1984/140) |