Temple Winter Festival 2018 – ORA Singers

Based around four contemporary a cappella settings of the text of the Magnificat, ORA Singers presents a typically inventive programme juxtaposing music from previous ages with modern classics. Music in honour of the Virgin Mary sits alongside material celebrating the wonder and joy of the birth of Jesus. Listen to this exceptional ensemble giving their own take on the Christmas story with choral works ranging from the sublimely still to the riotously energetic.

Artists:
ORA Singers
Suzi Digy, Director

Programme:
Matthew Martin: Ecce concipies
Plainchant: Rorate caeli
Howard Skempton: Adam Lay Y Bounden
Thomas Tallis: Videte Miraculum
James Burton: Magnificat
Medieval: Coventry Carol
Richard Allain: Lully Lulla Thou Little Tiny Child
Philip Van Wilder: Pater Noster
Roxanna Panufnik: Magnificat (St Pancras Service)
Medieval: Now may we singen
Cecilia McDowall: Now may we singen
William Byrd: Laetentur caeli
Tomas Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria a 8
Mark Simpson: Ave Maria
Judith Weir: Magnificat
Medieval: There Is No Rose
Ben Rowarth: There Is No Rose
Kim Porter: Christmas Eve
Giovanni Palestrina: Alma Redemptoris
Arvo Part: Magnificat
Jonathan Rathbone: The Oxen
Tobias Frank: Les Anges
Steven Sametz: Gaudete