Christmas with Sonoro
Kings Place, London
Part of the London Chamber Music Series
Sonoro
Michael Higgins, piano
Neil Ferris, conductor
Our return to Kings Place features festive choral favourites, traditional texts set anew, and beautifully crafted arrangements of familiar melodies.
Malcolm Archer – A little child there is yborn
Cecilia McDowall – O Oriens
Paul Spicer – In a field as I lay
Howard Skempton – Adam lay ybounden
Michael Higgins – The Angel Gabriel
Gareth Treseder – Blessed be that Maid Marie
John Joubert – There is no rose
Herbert Howells – A spotless rose
Becky McGlade – In the bleak midwinter
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Michael Higgins – Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Betty Roe – The holly and the ivy
William Mathias – Sir Christèmas
Sally Beamish – In the stillness
Kerry Andrew – Out of the orient crystal skies
Peter Warlock – Bethlehem Down
John Rutter – Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Will Todd – My Lord has come
Michael Higgins – Silent night
John Rutter – Wexford Carol
Stuart Nicholson – Ding dong! merrily on high