Truro Cathedral Choir Concert: Jingle all the way
19:30 - Join the boys, girls and adult professional singers of Truro Cathedral Choir for this year’s Christmas concert – its sure to get you into the festive mood! Alongside seasonal favourites like O holy night, the Cherry Tree Carol, In the bleak midwinter and the Sussex Carol, the choir will perform some less well-known gems including a powerful setting of the Coventry Carol and a virtuosic arrangement of Jingle Bells.
Tickets: Full price £15.00; Supporter tickets £16.50 (£1.50 from each ticket goes directly to support the cathedral choir); Under 18s free. Available online from Cornish Riveria Box Office or by telephone 01726 879 500. Tickets are also available at some tourist offices (check CRBO website).
PROGRAMME
O holy night – Adolph Adam
Reading: Preludes – T S Eliot
Torches – John Joubert
All bells in paradise – John Rutter
Reading: Nativity Play – Claire Bevan
Cheery Tree Carol – arr Stephen Cleobury
The Shepherds’ Farewell – Hector Berlioz
Reading: The sheepdog – U A Fanthorpe
The Shepherds’ Carol – Bob Chilcott
The Three Kings – Peter Cornelius
Reading: Advent Calendar – Rowan Williams
In the bleak midwinter – Harold Darke
Sussex Carol – arr Philip Ledger
INTERVAL
A Hymn to the Virgin – Benjamin Britten
Reading: BC:AD – U A Fanthorpe
People look east – Peter Tranchell
There is no rose – Elizabeth Maconchy
Reading: O Simplicitas – Madeleine L’Engle
Joys Seven – Traditional, arr Stephen Cleobury
I sing of a maiden – Russell Pascoe
Reading: Reading -Innocent’s song – Charles Causley
Lully lulla, thou little tiny child – Kenneth Leighton
Reading: Christmas bells – Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Ring the bells – Paul Fincham
Jingle bells – arr Ben Parry