2025 - Christmas Concerts

The Cathedral Choir sang its customary three pre-Christmas concerts, Christmas with the Cathedral Choir on 9th, 11th and 13th December. Sponsored by Rathbones.

Music:

A Babe is Born - Mathias

Once in Royal David's City - audience carol

A Tender Shoot - Goldschmidt

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Poston

O Little Town of Bethlehem - audience carol

Quand Jesus naquit à Noël - Balbastre - organ - played by Michael Stephens-Jones

There is No Rose - Britten

The Rose in the Middle of Winter - Chilcott

Laetentur coeli - Byrd

interval

Good King Wenceslas - audience carol

Dum silentium - Bouzignac

La Peregrinacion - Rarmirez, arr. Knight

Softly Sleeping - Todd

Sleigh Ride - Anderson, arr. Trotter - organ - played by Michael D'Avanzo

Venite Gaudete - Peacock

O Come All Ye Faithful - audience carol

Winter Wonderland - Bernard & Smith

Jingle Bells - Pierpoint arr. Allwood

Twelve Days of Christmas - trad.

The concert programme used images taken by the Cathedral's marketing department of the 2024 concert. The cover was:

This is actually a mirror-image of how the choir stood. Presumably the image was flipped for better composition. The correct view should be: