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The Christmas Truce
A wartime drama with carols imagining the Christmas Truce of 1914
Part of the Epiphoni Consort Christmas 2018 Season
Add to my Calendar 08-12-2018 19:30 08-12-2018 21:30 36 The Christmas Truce One of history’s most symbolic events of peace and humanity: the ceasefire of Christmas Eve 1914 across the Western Front. In this Armistice Centenary year The Epiphoni Consort revive Rufus Stilgoe’s play, The Christmas Truce, first performed in 2014, which imagines the build-up to the truce with Hadley Fraser starring as Sergeant. Featuring the choral music of German and British composers including J.S. Bach, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Mendelssohn together with popular carols including Silent Night. St Peter's Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Peter's Church
310 Kennington Lane
Vauxhall
London
SE11 5HY
England
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn – Frohlocket ihr Völker auf Erden, Op.79 no.2
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Edward Elgar – The Snow, Op.26 no.1
Nigel Short – The dying Soldier
David Willcocks – Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
~ Interval ~
Anonymous – Past Three A Clock
Jan Sandström – Es ist ein ros entsprungen
Graham Fitkin – The Christmas Truce
Christopher Andrew Walker – Silent Night
Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
Performers
Hadley Fraser – Actor
Tim Reader – Conductor
Epiphoni Consort
Zeitgeist Chamber Orchestra
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Programme Note
One of history’s most symbolic events of peace and humanity: the ceasefire of Christmas Eve 1914 across the Western Front.
In this Armistice Centenary year The Epiphoni Consort revive Rufus Stilgoe’s play, The Christmas Truce, first performed in 2014, which imagines the build-up to the truce with Hadley Fraser starring as Sergeant.
Featuring the choral music of German and British composers including J.S. Bach, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Mendelssohn together with popular carols including Silent Night.
