Joy to the World

16 December 2006

The Edinburgh Singers present an evening of festive music, featuring well-known favourites and some less familiar pieces in a choral celebration of Christmas in the historic Greyfriars Kirk.

• Musical Director Dominic Peckham
• Organist Ruaraidh Sutherland
• Harpist Fiona Hislop
• Reader Robin Harper MSP
• Reader Claire Fleck
• *****
• Gauntlett (arr. Willcocks) Once in Royal David's City (soloist - Hazel Bell)
• Tchaikovsky Khvalitye Gospoda S Nyebyes
• Trad. Sussex Carol
• Holst Lullay my Liking (soloists - Hazel Bell, Lisa Galbraith, Mark Woods and Louisa Stewart)
• Mateo Flecha the elder Riu Riu Chiu (soloist - Jonathan Wright)
• Piae Cantiones (arr. Willcocks) Of the Father's Heart Begotten
• Britten Wolcum Yole (Upper Voices)
• Britten There is no Rose of Such Virtue (Upper Voices)
• Trad. Arr. Wilson God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (Lower Voices)
• Trad. Arr. Pearsall In Dulci Jubilo (Trio - Aileen Boyle, Elen Vink, Keith Main) (Octet - Jacobine Scott, Louise Wright, Catherine Dunlop, Jenny Rice-Jones, Rory Wilson, Keith Main, Don Roberts and David Offord)
• Trad. Arr. Darke In the Bleak Mid Winter (soloists - Jean Waddie and Nick Clelland)
• Trad. Arr. Peckham Joy to the World
• Bortnianski Tibie Paiom
• Wade (arr. Willcocks) O Come all ye Faithful
• Trad. Arr. Peckham I saw Three Ships
• Trad O Come O Come Emmanuel (Louise Wright)
• Britten A Hymn to the Virgin (Quartet - Claire Spencer, Liz Fuggle, Nick Clelland and David Offord)
• Mendelssohn Hark the Herald Angel Sing
• Warlock Bethlehem Down