A Boy Was Born - Londinium Chamber Choir

London chamber choir Londinium performs
A Boy Was Born
Londinium's typically vibrant Christmas programme offers a delicious selection of festive music old and new, familiar and invigorating. Long-established favourites, including Leighton's Lully, Lulla, Cornelius' The Three Kings and Darke's In the Bleak Midwinter (newly arranged for this concert by Jim Clements), rub shoulders with miniature gems by Praetorius, Sweelinck, Warlock and Gabriel Jackson. These carols are chosen to mirror the texts found in the dazzling and virtuosic set of choral variations which provides the climax to our programme: A Boy Was Born, the first major work for choir by the precociously-talented nineteen-year-old Benjamin Britten. Mulled wine and mince pies complete a delectable evening!

Concert Programme:
Gabriel Jackson: Nowell Sing We
Michael Praetorius: Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
Anon: Coventry Carol
Kenneth Leighton: Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
Peter Wishart: Alleluya, a new work is come in hand
Peter Cornelius: The Three Kings
Harold Darke arr. Clements: In the Bleak Midwinter
Peter Warlock: Corpus Christi
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Wassail Song
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
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Benjamin Britten: A Boy Was Born