The Manchester Chamber Choir welcome in Advent with both early and contemporary settings of Advent-related texts, from William Byrd and Peter Philips to Kenneth Leighton, Sarah Cattley, and Javier Busto. The concert also features two world premières: The Snow by choir member Ian Stephens on a medieval Welsh poem by Dafydd ap Gwilym, and a setting of the fifteenth-century carol text Adam lay ybounden by Principal Conductor Vicente Chavarría.

Full Programme:

Tollite portas – William Byrd 

O Radiant Dawn – Sir James MacMillan

Ave maris stella – Claudio Monteverdi

Maria durch ein Dornwald ging – arr. Stefan Claas

O Come, O Come Emmanuel – arr. Salli Terri

Ivy, chief of trees it is – Sarah Cattley

Adam lay ybounden – Vicente Chavarría

O clavis David – Gabriel Jackson

The Snow – Ian Stephens

What love is this of thine? – Kenneth Leighton

The Holly and the Ivy – arr. Ola Gjeilo

Alma redemptoris mater – Peter Philips

Bethlehem Down – Peter Warlock

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen – Michael Praetorius, arr. Jan Sandström

Ave maris stella – Javier Busto

The Cherry-Tree Carol – arr. Sir David Willcocks

The Gloucestershire Wassail – arr. Vicente Chavarría

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