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30 Nov 2018, St Giles' Cripplegate, London
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Singers at Six: Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bax

´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
Singers at Six: Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bax
18:00 Fri 30 Nov 2018 St Giles' Cripplegate, London
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers perform works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bax in an early evening concert.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers perform works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bax in an early evening concert.

Programme

      • Gaude et Laetare
      • This time a child is born
      • From the Beginning of the World
      • Floodlight, Starlight
      • There is no rose
      • I Sing of a Maiden
      • This Worldes Joie
      • Five Greek Folksongs, GP 348

Performers

Concert Information

An Advent concert of seasonal British choral works by Arnold Bax and Cheryl Frances-Hoad anticipates Christmas joys to come.

Glowing with textural interest and intensity, as though lit from within, Frances-Hoad’s choral writing looks to the musical past for music that is very much of the present. Her carols and motets take us from festive rejoicing, in the exuberant Gaude et Laetare, to rapt wonder in There is no Rose. Bax – Master of the King’s Music under George VI – also draws on the carol’s medieval origins in his graceful I Sing of A Maiden and This Worldes Joie.