Directed by Stephen Williams, the director of music at Uppingham School, and with David Pipe on the organ, the Chapter House Choir performed three nights of Christmas music, including some beautiful handbell playing.

Beginning with an atmospheric sung procession into the Chapter House under candelight, the choir here sings I Saw Three Ships, Away in a Manger and In the Bleak Mid-winter, along with lesser known but no less evocative festive music.

So why not sit back, marvel at the Chapter House's beautiful architecture and enjoy this selection from the programme:

Processional: Advent Antiphons

Choir: Resonet in Laudibus - Gallus
Rocking - arr Higginbottom
In the Bleak Mid-winter
(Anna Goldbeck-Wood, John Gill) - arr Darke

Organ: Adagio in C, KV356 - Mozart

Choir: I Saw Three Ships
(Sam Grainger, Sue Lindley,
Ruth McConnell) - arr O'Donnell
Away in a Manger - arr Moore

Handbells: O Come, O Come Emmanuel - arr John Hastie

For more information about the Chapter House Choir click here.


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