Christmas to Candlemas
Saturday, 7 December 2019, 3:00pm
Our Lady of Victories Basilica
Burke Road, Camberwell
Britten’s A Boy was Born, composed when he was nineteen, rocketed him to national fame when it was first performed on 23 February 1934 as a BBC broadcast. This is our major work for Christmas this year, preceded by five Renaissance motets for Christmas, the Epiphany and Candlemas.
Josquin Desprez – Praeter rerum seriem
Cristóbal de Morales – Pastores, dicite, quidnam vidistis
John Sheppard – Reges Tharsis et insulae
Tomás Luis de Victoria – Senex puerum portabat
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Lumen ad revelationem gentium
Benjamin Britten – A Boy was Born
(Boy Trebles from Choir of All Saints’, East St Kilda)
Soprano
Deborah Summerbell; Carol Veldhoven; Katherine Lieschke; Victoria Brown;
Katharina Hochheiser; Claerwen Jones; Elizabeth O’Leary
Alto
Belinda Wong; Helena Ekins;
Yi Wen Chin; Niki Ebacioni
Tenor
Peter Campbell; Tim van Nooten; Vaughan McAlley;
Stuart Tennant; Michael Stephens
Bass
Nicholas Tolhurst; Andrew Murray; Michael Strasser; Andrew Fysh;
Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley; Tom Bell