Saturday 13 December, 18:00 at St Martin's Church


Christmas a cappella

Join BREMF Consort of Voices to celebrate Advent and Christmas with a cappella music from the medieval era to the present day.

Date & Time: Saturday 13 December, 18:00

Ticket price: £15; under 30s £7.50; under 12s free

Venue: St Martin's Church


BREMF Consort of Voices
James Elias director

Celebrate the festive season with a cappella choral music through the ages, including music by Victoria, Josquin des Prez, Poulenc and Eric Whitacre.

Mulled wine and mince pies will be served in the interval.

[photo by Laura Nyhuis via Unsplash]

Programme


Anonymous Nobis est natus

Gilles Binchois
c.1400-1460
A solis ortus

Josquin des Prez
c.1450-1521
Ave Maria

Jean Mouton
c.1459-1522
Hodie Christus natus est

Orlando di Lassus
c.1532-1594
Hodie apparuit a3

Tomas Luis de Victoria
c.1548-1611
O magnum mysterium

Victoria Quem vidistis pastores

Victoria Magi viderunt stellam

Victoria Ecce dominus veniet

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
c.1525-1594
Alma redemptoris a8

- interval -

Anonymous Ecce quod natura a3

Luca Marenzio
1553/4-1599
Hodie

Carlo Gesualdo
1566-1613
Ave regina a5

Loach Adam Lay y bounden

Elias Incarnatus a3

Francis Poulenc
1899-1963
O magnum mysterium

Poulenc Quem vidistis

Poulenc Videntes stellam

Poulenc Hodie Christus natus est

Eric Whitacre
b.1970
Lux Aurumque