Felicitas concert: Christmas Choral Contrasts

Music will include Poulenc’s Four Christmas Motets coupled with settings with the same texts by Palestrina, whose 500th anniversary we celebrate this year. • G.P. da Palestrina & Francis Poulenc – O magnum mysterium, Quem vidistis, Videntes stellam, Hodie Christus natus est • Hector Berlioz – The Shepherds’ Farewell • Iain Farrington – Run, shepherds • Traditional – Coventry Carol • Kenneth Leighton – Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child • Hildegard von Bingen & Ola Gjeilo – Ave Generosa • Boris Ord & Simon Winters – Adam lay ybounden • Reginald Jacques & June Nixon – The holly and the ivy • Robert Pearsall & Rod Elms – In dulci jubilo • Roger Bluff – Hodie Christus natus est.