Record

Performance TitleThe Daily Telegraph Christmas Festival 1993 - Royal Choral Society Christmas Carol Concert
Performance Date21 December 1993
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJohn Birch - organ
Orchestra or BandLondon Concert Orchestra,
Fanfare Trumpeters of the Band of the HM Royal Marines Commander-in-Chief Fleet
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsLaszlo Heltay
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Jacobs,
'The Boar's Head Carol', arr. Sargent,
'O Come, All Ye Faithful', arr. Willcocks,
'Shepherd's Pipe Carol', Rutter,
'Gabriel's Message', arr. Baring Gould,
Spiritual - 'Mary had a Baby', arr. Sargent,
'Good King Wenceslas', arr. Jacques,
Orchestral Item (London Concert Orchestra),
'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', arr. Willcocks,
'I Can Tell the World', trad. Spiritual,
'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel', arr. Rutter,
'Three Kings of Orient', Hopkins, arr. Willcocks,
'Sans Day Carol', arr. Rutter,
'O Little Town of Bethlehem', arr. Vaughan Williams
INTERVAL
'Once in Royal David's City', Gauntlett harm. Mann,
'In the Bleak Mid-Winter', Darke,
'The Shepherd's Farewell', Berlioz,
Organ solo (John Birch),
'Away in a Manger', Kirkpatrick, arr. Willcocks,
'Rocking', arr. Willcocks,
'The Twelve Days of Christmas', arr. Rutter,
'Stille Nacht', Gruber, arr. Rutter,
'London Waits', Llwellyn,
'Sir Christemas', Mathias,
'The First Nowell', arr. Willcocks,
'Jesus Child', Rutter,
'I Wonder as I Wander', arr. Carter,
'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing', Mendelssohn; desc. arr. Willcocks,
'Hallelujah Chorus', from Messiah, Handel,
'We Wish You A Merry Christmas', arr. Warrell
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1993/152),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1993/33)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1993 /152The Daily Telegraph Christmas Festival 1993 - Hooked on Christmas17-24 December 1993
RAHE/6/1993/33Royal Choral Society 123rd Season21 December 1993 - 1 April 1994
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ysabierob_ZowtThe Daily Telegraph Christmas Festival 199311
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4874The Daily Telegraph; 1855-; British broadsheet newspaper
DS/UK/2937Birch; John (9 July 1929-28 April 2012); British organist and choral director
DS/UK/11679Hardy; Robert (1925-2017); CBE, FSA; English actor
DS/UK/783London Concert Orchestra; 1972-; English orchestra
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/13483Heltay; Laszlo (fl 1960s-); Hungarian-British conductor and founder of Schola Cantorum of Oxford
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