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| 7 December 2025 | |
| 3.pm Huntingdon Hall Chapel Walk Worcester Worcestershire WR1 2ES Details: Web site | Winter series - 2025/2026 Linarol Consort (viols) David Hatcher, Alison Kinder, Claire Horacek, Timothy Lin plus James Gilchrist and Heloise Bernard "Shipwreck" music from the early 16th century for a consort of viols and soloist singers |
| 19 December 2025 until 20 December 2025 | |
| 7.30pm Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street London SW1X 9BZ Details: Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Web site | Goldsmiths Christmas Celebration |
| 11 December 2025 | |
| 7.30pm St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Bishopsgate London EC2M 3TL Details: Web site £18 (£15 reduced price) | Mary's European Christmas Orlando Chamber Choir Daniel Gethin, director Francesca Massey, organ Giovanni da Palestrina: O magnum mysterium Raphaella Aleotti: Sancta et immaculata virginitas Francis Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge Noire Juan Esquivel: Magnificat quinti toni Hieronymus Praetorius: Joseph lieber, Joseph mein Hugo Distler: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Ecce virgo concipiet Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Ave Maria William Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby William Mundy: Videte miraculum At Christmas, our attention turns to the birth of Jesus, but during Advent, the focus is on his mother as she herself travels to Bethlehem. The Ave Maria and the Magnificat – Mary's song upon learning she is to become the Mother of Christ – are amongst the most sung words in choral music, here set by Clemens non Papa and Esquivel. Alongside them we sing more traditional Christmas repertoire, like of Lo, how a rose e'er blooming and Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, set in German and Latin by Distler and Sweelinck. The programme is completed with seasonal curiosities including Poulenc's composition inspired by a trip to the Black Virgin statue in Rocamadour, and two lullabies from Mary to her newborn son by H. Praetorius and Byrd. With music representing Italian, French, Spanish, Germanic, Flemish and English musical traditions, interspersed with traditional Christmas carols, we hope to take you with us round the churches and Christmas markets of Europe before landing you home again. In the interval, there will be wine, mince pies and their European relatives, Panettone and Stollen. |
| 15 December 2025 | |
| 7.pm St Clement Danes Church The Strand London WC2R 1DH Details: Web site | Led by the West Green House Opera Chorus, this is the perfect way to kick-start your Christmas. |
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