St Martin's Singers

A late concert of Christmas music at the oldest church in Rutland

Saturday 3rd February at 7pm
(for about an hour, followed by refreshments
St Nicholas Church, Stretton, near Oakham, LE15 7QR
with Michael Overbury organ
Fergus Black conductor

Tickets £10, accompanied school-age children £5.

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You may think it a little odd to be doing a Christmas concert in February. But there are good reasons: December is too busy is one reason; and also, Christmas is a season, not a day. The Christmas season ends on 2nd Feb if one takes the old view of a forty day festival, as Robert Herrick did in his poem "Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve":
Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the bays and misletoe;
Down with the holly, ivy, all
Wherewith ye dress'd the Christmas hall.

INTRO
Ave Maria - “Caccini” arr Arch

Annunciation
Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva - James Macmillan

Visit to Elizabeth
Magnificat Octavi Toni - Johann Erasmus Kindermann

Joseph's Dream
Joseph, thou son of David - Nia Llewelyn Jones

Journey to Bethlehem
The Time of Snow - Bob Chilcott

Birth
De Virgin Mary - Calypso arr Arch
Heute ist Christus der Herr geboren - Heinrich Schutz
In Dulci Jubilo - JM Bach organ

Lullaby
Maria Wiegenlied - Max Reger

Stable
The Oxen - Benjamin Britten

Angels
Gloria from the Grand'Messe de Noël "Puer Natus est nobis" - Gevaert

Shepherds
Quittez Pasteurs - French traditional arr. Phare-Bergh

Magi
Out of the Orient Crystal Skies - William Byrd
Mary and the Wise Men - Simon Mold

Flight into Egypt
Quam Pulchra Es - Bauldeweyn

Holy Innocents
Coventry Carol - English traditional

Candlemas
Lumen ad Revelationem - Guilmant organ
Maria wallt zum Heiligtum (When to the temple Mary went) - Eccard