Main Performers | Flora Woodman, Rosa Rubery, Carmen Hill, John Booth, Topliss Green - vocals, John Solomon - trumpet |
Set List | Motet for Double Chorus: 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise', Carol for Quartet and Chorus: 'In Dulci Jubilo', R L de Pearsall (Rosa Rubery, Carmen Hill, John Booth, Topliss Green), Carol: 'Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes', Ivor Gurney (Topliss Green), Carol: 'By Nazareth's Green Hills', Sir Frederick Bridge, 'An Old Sacred Lullaby', D Corner (1649) (Carmen Hill) Carol: 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen', trad., Air and Chorus: 'O HolyNight, Adam (Flora Woodman), Carol: 'Come, Rejoice, All Good Christians' (H L Balfour), 'Fly, Messenger, Fly!', Rutland Boughton (John Booth), 'New Year's Wassailing Song', E Elvira Gambogi (John Booth), Carol: 'The Rose and the Lilly', Alec Rowley, Legend: 'Christ in His Garden', Tchaikovsky, Carol: 'The First Nowell', trad., Ancient Carol: 'Welcome Yule', Parry, 'Ring Out, Wild Bells, Gounod (Rosa Rubery), Carol: 'When the Crimson Sun Has Set', S S Greatheed (Rosa Rubery, Carmen Hill, John Booth, Topliss Green), 'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind', Parry (John Booth), 'When Icicles Hang From the Wall' (John Booth), Carols: 'Would I Had Been a Shepherd', Sir Frederick Bridge, 'Ring, Christmas Bells', Sir Frederick Bridge, Aria: 'Let the Bright Seraphim', Handel (Flora Woodman, John Solomon), Carol: 'The Holly and the Ivy', trad., 'The Oxen' (A legend of Christmas Eve), Graham Peel (Carmen Hill), 'The Mahogany Tree', Herbert Sharpe (Topliss Green), Carol: 'The Wassail Song', trad., 'Good King Wenceslas', trad. (Rosa Rubery, Topliss Green), Hymn for Christmas Day: 'O Come, All Ye faithfull', attr. John Reading |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1920/62), Season Prospectus (RAHE/1/1920/64) |