Programme
Christmas with Continuum is our fifth annual festive celebration in the market town of Bedford. The evening brings together a rich offering of choral music celebrating the wonder and joy of the Christmas season. Blending medieval carols, twentieth-century masterpieces and contemporary choral writing, tracing a path from quiet anticipation to festive celebration with much loved Christmas favourites and fresh new perspectives on the Nativity story.
“I left the concert on a cloud”
Concert Programme
· Philip Ledger – Adam Lay Ybounden
· Sally Beamish – In the Stillness
· John Joubert – There is No Rose
· arr. David Willcocks – Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
· arr. Harry Guthrie – The Infant King
· Gustav Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter
· Peter Warlock – Bethlehem Down
· Peter Warlock – Benedicamus Domino
· Sergei Rachmaninoff – Bogoroditse Devo
INTERVAL
· arr. David Willcocks – Angels from the Realms of Glory
· Ivo Antognini – O Magnum Mysterium
· June Collin – The Quiet Heart
· Helena Paish – While Mary Slept
· Gustav Nordqvist – Peace, Peace
· Owain Park – I Wonder as I Wander
· Lucy Walker – Ave Virgo Sanctissima
· arr. Humphries – The Twelve Days of Christmas