«A Cambridge Christmas»

15.12.2023 19:30,

Grand Auditorium

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Choir of St Johnʼs College, Cambridge
Christopher Gray direction
Thomas Trotter orgue

Adolphe Adam: «O Holy Night» (arr. John E. West)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: «Hodie Christus natus est» SwWV 163
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: «Als Jesus geboren ward» (Christus)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: «Wo ist der neugeborne König» (Christus)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: «Es wird ein Stern aus Jakob» (Christus)
Tamsin Jones: «Verbum caro factum est»
Traditional: Sussex Carol (arr. Philip Ledger)
Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry: Fantaisie et fugue en sol majeur (G-Dur)
Garth Edmundson: Toccata Prelude N° 4: «Vom Himmel Hoch»
Johann Sebastian Bach: «Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme» BWV 645
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Overture to the Oratorio «St. Paul» for organ (arr. William Thomas Best)
Jonathan Dove: Magnificat (St John's Service)
Herbert Howells: Three Carol-Anthems
Becky McGlade: «In the Bleak Midwinter»
John Gardner: «Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day»

Subdued lighting, a chime of angelic voices, the warm hum of the organ… No, you’re not sitting under the colourful stained-glass windows of one of those charming little chapels that England is so famous for, but in the Grand Auditorium of the Philharmonie! From the restrained longing of Johann Sebastian Bach to the jubilant outbursts of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the sober elation of the English Renaissance, the choristers of St John’s College and their organist illuminate this Advent season with a moment of pure joy, between contemplation and celebration.