Our Christmas concert this year celebrates the music of composers who have lived and worked in Hammersmith and the surrounding area. Featuring a wide range of seasonal music, from Holst, Howells and Gardner – who served consecutively as Director of Music at St Paul’s Girls’ School from 1905 to 1975 – to contemporary composers, Cecilia McDowell and Kerensa Briggs.

Join us for audience carols, candlelight, mulled wine and mince pies to welcome in the festivities.

Programme

Four Carols, Op. 34 – Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
This have I done for my true love
Lullay my liking
Of one that is so fair and bright
Bring us in good ale

Glad Christmas Comes – Andrew Wells (b. 1962)
This advent moon
Christmas time
The world’s desire
Seen by the waits

A Tender Shoot – Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991)

Christus Natus Est – Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Personent hodie
Entre le bœuf et l’âne gris
Gaudete!
Infant holy, infant lowly
Angelus ad virginem

Christmas Day – Gustav Holst (1874–1934)

Three Carol Anthems – Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
Here is a little door
A Spotless Rose
Sing lullaby

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – John Gardner (1917–2011)

In the bleak mid-winter – Gustav Holst, arr. Richard Bannan (b. 1982)

Wassail Song – English trad. arr. William Whitehead (b. 1970)

Tickets £20 | £17 concessions | £5 under 30s