Felicitas Concert: 'Christmas Choral Contrasts'

 The Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 1DT The Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 1DT - Map Directions
6 December 2025
07:30 PM GMT +00:00
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Our programme will contrast old and new settings of familiar Advent and Christmas texts, showcasing trusted favourites alongside less familiar settings by a wide range of composers.

Featuring Poulenc’s Four Christmas Motets, inspired by four scenes from the Nativity story, paired with settings of the same texts by Palestrina, whose 500th anniversary we celebrate this year.

Programme to include:

  • G.P. da Palestrina & Francis Poulenc – O magnum mysterium, Quem vidistis, Videntes stellam, Hodie Christus natus est
  • Hector Berlioz – The Shepherds’ Farewell
  • Iain Farrington – Run, shepherds
  • Traditional – Coventry Carol
  • Kenneth Leighton – Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
  • Hildegard von Bingen & Ola Gjeilo – Ave Generosa
  • Boris Ord & Simon Winters – Adam lay ybounden
  • Reginald Jacques & June Nixon – The holly and the ivy
  • Robert Pearsall & Rod Elms – In dulci jubilo
  • Roger Bluff – Hodie Christus natus est. 


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