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The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge presents a festive Christmas programme featuring beloved early 20th-century carols and music by contemporary composers. The choir is renowned for its rich, warm sound and performs with adult lower voices and child sopranos.

Programme

R

Richard Rodney Bennett

Out of your sleep

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F

Fredrik Sixten

Mary’s Lullaby (Silent night)

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P

Peter Warlock

Bethlehem Down

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A

Anonymous

There is no rose

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E

Eleanor Daley

Christ hath a garden

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H

Helena Paish

Angels we have heard on high

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J S Bach

Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733

Baroque

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T

Traditional Basque melody

Gabriel’s Message (arr Jim Clements)

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T

Traditional German melody

In dulci jubilo (arr Robert Lucas Pearsall)

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M

Mateo Flecha

Ríu Ríu Chíu

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J

John Francis Wade

O come, all ye faithful (arr David Willcocks)

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H

Hans Leo Hassler

Verbum caro factum est

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William Walton

All this time this song is best

20th Century

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Benjamin Britten

A hymn to the virgin

20th Century · Vocal

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H

Herbert Howells

A spotless rose

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H

Herbert Howells

Here is the little

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J S Bach

In dulci jubilo, BWV 608

Baroque · Keyboard

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J S Bach

In dulci jubilo, BWV 729

Baroque · Keyboard

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E

Eleanor Daley

Love came down at Christmas

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J

John Joubert

There is no rose

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