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Chilcott Christmas Oratorio
Part of the Three Choirs Festival Gloucester 2019
Add to my Calendar 01-08-2019 16:30 01-08-2019 18:30 36 Chilcott Christmas Oratorio It’s Christmas in August! We bring you the best of the festive season in Britten’s beautiful masterpiece A Ceremony of Carols. This concert also offers the first chance to hear a new commission by Bob Chilcott, and a rare opportunity to hear the lower voices of the combined cathedral choirs in intricate Renaissance polyphony. Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Gloucester Cathedral
College Green
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2LX
England
Programme
Jacob Handl – Impetum inimicorum
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Laetatus sum a 12 (motet)
Benjamin Britten – A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28
Bob Chilcott – Christmas Oratorio
Performers
Sarah Connolly – soprano
Nick Pritchard – Tenor
Neal Davies – baritone
Adrian Partington – Conductor
Three Cathedral Choirs
Philharmonia Orchestra
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Programme Note
It’s Christmas in August! We bring you the best of the festive season in Britten’s beautiful masterpiece A Ceremony of Carols. This concert also offers the first chance to hear a new commission by Bob Chilcott, and a rare opportunity to hear the lower voices of the combined cathedral choirs in intricate Renaissance polyphony.
