A Carol Fantasia

Saturday 10 December 2022, 3pm
St. Paul’s Church, Ireland Wood,
LS16 6BS

Director: Benjamin Kirk

Organist: Paul Barker

Tickets: £10 Adult, £5 Student, Under 12, Free

an afternoon of joyous choral music and Christmas readings in aid of both St Paul Warm Welcome and the Tearfund Christmas appeal.

Trad. — Once in Royal David’s City (Arr. Willcocks)

T. L. de Victoria — O Quam Gloriosum

Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Reading: Godfrey Rust — Incarnate (Prologue)

Trad. — O Come, All Ye Faithful (Arr. Willcocks)

Bob Chilcott — Nova, Nova!

John Tavener — The Lamb

Reading: Genesis chapter 22, verses 1-19 (Abraham tested)

Elizabeth Poston — Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

Harold Darke — In the Bleak Midwinter

JH Hopkins — We Three Kings of Orient Are (Arr. Willcocks)

Reading: Isia chapter 11, verses 1-10 (The branch from Jesse)

Olando Lassus — Adorna Thalamum

Trad. — In Dulci Jubilo (Arr. Pearsall)

Herbert Howells — Sing Lullaby

Reading: John chapter 1, verses 1-14 (The Word became Flesh)

Eric Whitacre — Lux Aurumque

Trad. — It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (adapt. Sullivan)

Morten Lauridsen — O Magnum Mysterium

Reading: Godfrey Rust — Incarnate (Epilogue)

Francis Poulenc — Hodie Christus Natus est

Trad. — Ding Dong Merrily on High (adapt. Wood)

Felix Mendelssohn — Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Arr. Willcocks)