The simple beauty of unaccompanied voices – what better way to celebrate the coming festive season?
The SCO Chorus’s annual Christmas concert has become a firm fixture in Scotland’s musical calendar: experience the singers’ radiant tones under expert Director Gregory Batsleer in music to warm your heart and lift your spirit.
Francis Poulenc provides four exquisite miniature scenes from the nativity story, while revered choral composer and conductor Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque is a shimmering contemplation of the season, and SCO Associate Composer Jay Capperauld unveils a brand new-choral piece, a setting of Niall Campbell's poem The Night Watch.
Programme
Giles Swayne: Magnificat
Gustav Holst: In the bleak midwinter
Peter Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Helen Leach: Touch of Heaven (from Letters from the Owl House) – solo cello
Cecilia McDowall: Now may we singen
Capperauld: The Night Watch (World Premiere)
John Tavener: The Lamb
John Tavener: Chant – solo cello
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
- O magnum mysterium
- Quem vidistis pastores
- Videntes stellam
- Hodie Christus natus est
J S Bach: Sarabande (from Suite No 4 in E-flat) – solo cello
Sally Beamish: In the Stillness
Trad arr. Rutter: Wexford Carol
Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
SCO Chorus
Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director
Philip Higham Cello