Carols for Christmas

Name: Carols for Christmas
Start: 2024-12-07T19:30:00+00:00
Location: St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth

Schedule

Sat Dec 07 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth | Perth, SC

We celebrate Christmas with a concert of carols drawn from across the UK and Europe. This is a concert for all the family, full of great choral music, and set in the wonderful acoustic of St Ninian’s Cathedral.
Join us on Saturday December 7th at 7.30pm in St Ninian’s Cathedral to enjoy some of the great Christmas carols sung by Chansons, Perth’s Chamber Choir.
More detail:
Much great choral music has been written in celebration of the Christmas story and our programme draws from renaissance Spain with De Victoria’s Duo Seraphim, Italy with Gabrielli’s gorgeous Beata es Virgo Maria and Germany with Praetorius’s two beautiful compositions; ‘Es ist ein Ros’ and ‘Psallite Unigenito’.
We have Vaughan William’s entertaining arrangement of the traditional ‘Wassail Song’ when our choral forbears walked through villages knocking on doors to sing in return for food and beer.
A much loved favourite from Ukraine is Leontovich’s ever popular ‘Carol of the Bells’ as we pay musical visits across various other European countries with music through the ages right up to a recent composition ‘Mary, Mother’ by Bob Chilcott.